Use “would rather” for preferences

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quiet

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music when I'm studying or you can make

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it even more natural and say no I'd

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rather listen to quiet music right now I

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would rather listen to quiet music right

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now I'd rather or I would rather let's

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imagine that your coworker is trying to

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plan a meeting and they ask you can you

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have a meeting tomorrow afternoon you

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could say well I prefer to do work in

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the morning or even better you could say

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I'd rather do work in the morning I'd

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rather have a meeting in the morning I

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would rather and then you can state your

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preference it sounds great all right

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let's go to the third one the third hack

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is changing many to a lot or a lot of

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you probably learned many much in your

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elementary school textbooks but today

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I'm here to tell you if you change it to

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a lot of you're gonna sound amazingly

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natural so let's take a look at a quick

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example you might say I ate many cookies

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okay it's grammatically fine but if you

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want to sound even more natural you

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could say I ate a lot of cookies I ate a

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lot of cookies and you can change this

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pronunciation to be linked together and

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say I ate a lot of cookies I ate a lot

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of cookies I hate a lot of cookies

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yesterday and now I don't feel so well

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we