Did you hear what happened to Jack? He caught a cold, but he
had to go to the office. He would have rather stayed home, but
the boss had other plans for him. There was supposedly some meeting with a
big client. If I were him, I wouldn't have picked up the phone
when the boss called. I wouldn't have let's discuss Welcome to another Happy English
podcast, coming to you from New York City, and here's your English teacher,
Michael. All right, thank you johnn and thanks everyone. It's Michael
here from Happy English and I help people speak English better. And this is
Happy English Podcast, Episode six seventy. Past modal would have Today we're going
to tim you talking about some of the tricky grammar points that come up on
the TOIC exam. I hope this will come in handy for you if you're
taking the exam, and even if not, I'm sure you can use this
grammar in your everyday English conversations. In this lesson, let's look at the
past modal verb would have. By the way, the basic grammar pattern is
like this, we use would have or would not have, followed by a
past participle verb. You can say things like would have studied, would have
had, would have eaten, would not have done, and so on.
Would have and would not have are used in two different ways. Let's check
them out. First of all, we use would have to show that we
wanted to do something but we didn't do it. Imagine you wanted to study
for an important exam, but you didn't because you had to work. In
that situation, you could say I wanted to study for my exam, but
I had to work. I would have studied, though in this case,
I would have studied means that you wanted to study, but it didn't happen
this time because of work. Here are some other examples. I heard the
workshop was quite informative. I would have gone there, but I caught the
flu. I would have called you over the weekend, but I got stuck
babysitting for my sister's kids. By the way we usually use would have with
conditional sentences like this, she would have accepted the job offer if the salary
had been a little more reasonable. If I had known you were going to
the store, I would have asked you to buy some groceries for me.
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would not have to show that we didn't want something to happen in the past,
but it happened anyway. Let's say you caught a cold and you really
didn't want to go to work, but your boss insisted that you show up
and go to a meeting with an important client. Awful right in that situation,
you could say I caught a cold and I wouldn't have come to work
today, but the boss made me attend that meeting with the client. Here
I would not have come emphasizes that you didn't want to go to the office,
but you ended up going. Here are some other examples. I wouldn't
have gone to the second bar last night, but I drank so much at
the first bar that I made the bad decision to go. Jack left the
house in plenty of time and wouldn't have missed his flight, but he decided
to take a taxi instead of a train and got stuck in rush hour traffic.
By the way. We also used would not have with conditional sentences like
this. I wouldn't have eaten that spicy food if I had known it would
upset my stomach later. If I had known that the boss was going to
ask me to work late, I would not have made dinner plans with Jenny.
In summary, would have talks about something that we wanted to happen,
but it didn't. Would not have talks about something that we did not want
to happen, but it happened anyway. Keep in mind the best way to
remember this grammar is to take the phrase write it in a sentence that's true
for you or true in your world and then memorize your sentences. Remember there's
more to improving your toeach score than just doing practice tests. Speaking of TOEC,
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There you can learn the grammar and vocabulary points you need to know for success
in part five, six, and seven of the TOEK Exam, and each
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