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Should have, not should of

there read out loud you should have been there okay can you go ahead and correct it if it needs correcting all right thank you very much so they all got this right but this is a...

Course: Grammar without the guessworkSection: Common grammar mistakesSubtitles: en

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have been

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there read out loud

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you should have been there okay can you

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go ahead and correct it if it needs

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correcting all right thank you very much

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so they all got this right but this is

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actually a really really common

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orthographical error amongst native

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speakers in english but why do native

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speakers commit this error the reason is

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because the pronunciation of the

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contracted form of the auxiliary verb

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have is pronounced exactly the same as

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the word of in connected speech for

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example instead of going out last night

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you should have stayed in instead of

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going out last night you should have

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stayed in so in connected speech that of

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changes to and likewise we'd be

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contracted version of the obvious but

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have that changes from using the schwa

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again so then when we go to write words

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like should have would have and cut off

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sometimes

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