Polite conditional requests

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face

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if you use a present tense verb in a

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second conditional sentence

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in a test yeah your teacher might punch

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you in the face but in natural

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conversation it's fine and it has

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basically the same level of politeness

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because using wood makes it sound less

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direct

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meaning more polite now we're getting a

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bit more advanced

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you want to know the time

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do you have the time we want to change

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this to a negative statement

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you don't have the time now we need a

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question tag if you're not sure about

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question tags i made a whole video of it

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right there but if you're brilliant at

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question tags you already know

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you don't have the time do you for extra

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politeness points you could add

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by any chance

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this could actually go at the beginning

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it could also go between the auxiliary

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do we have and the main verb

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those are where it sounds the best you

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don't have to time by any chance do you

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see this little thing makes everything

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more polite so practice with me choose

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any variation of this

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and say it