Formal writing and contractions

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contractions i

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would not say can't i would say cannot

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i wouldn't say i'm

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i would say i am.

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um

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but i very rarely write something that

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formal

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even when i write to say like a business

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or to like some government office or

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something in english

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the level of formality in the speech i

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just i do write contractions most of the

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time really only for

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things that are going to be published or

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sent um

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very academic yeah then you don't

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contract so but for your purposes most

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of the time you can contract that's fine

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yeah

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all right moving onwards yep

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okay

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um

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[Music]

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which sentence is correct so here we

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have some mistakes

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in some of the sentences there's only

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one that's right

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all right we're going to make this our

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last activity and then we're going to go

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on to

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the past continuous

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right yeah so

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she was happy

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very nice yep good yeah

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she was happy we can't use were

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with

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she she was happy good number two

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so

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is it i see your friend yesterday

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i see your friend yesterday or i saw

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your friend

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yesterday

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decisions decisions

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yup good yeah i saw your friend

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yesterday

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reminds me of a song that i like i saw

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her again

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i'll play for you later yeah yeah good

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three

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emily waist tired emily we're tired or

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emily was tired that was a real young

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really

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good this is a good uh he's gonna say

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your acting skills oh no you're making

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me odd now oh no

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everybody's ready for a nap yeah

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afternoon now yeah maybe after this

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yes it's c emily was tired i was tired

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good

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um all right number four

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dough do you go shopping

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did you go shopping or did you went

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shopping hmm this is a tricky one some

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common mistake is

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is in this one yep let's see if you can

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avoid it

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what's the correct answer

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four

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great yeah captain t has got it again

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yep did you go shopping

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that's it did you go shopping

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uh be careful