When I was teaching English in Japan, I worked with a teacher from Australia who was "as rough as guts". We taught conversation-based English, and the Japanese learn grammar in high school, so very often students had a better grip on grammar, at least from a technical perspective. The Australian teacher came out of a lesson with some high-level students, shaking his head. "I don't know were they learned English," he said. "They kept saying should have, instead of should of!"
I used to teach high school Spanish, and once when I was teaching students how to use the past perfect subjunctive, I had a girl correct me when I said: "If I had known you were going to be late, I would have waited for you." (Or something similar) Her reply: "It's not would HAVE, it's would OF!"
By the way, you really ought to place these vodcasts on the TeacherTube website as well as YouTube. Most school teachers can't access YouTube because of district web filtering software.
Mignon, I LOVE these new vodcasts! I listen to your podcasts all the time, and although I love those, it's fun to see you in person doing these. You have a such a great personality and you are sooo smart. You have helped my writing immensely and I continue to work on my speaking, daily. I just want to say thank you.
It's easy to forget and to second guess yourself on pronouncing and writing these contractions. Although they are correct, they still just don't look right spelled out.
One of my biggest pet peeves haha
toymachine135 1 week ago
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TaoTeChing00 3 months ago
I fucking hate when people type "should of", even though english isn't even my first language :P
tontsa911 5 months ago 4
*like* x 1,000,000
InvaderDeviLin 1 year ago 3
hi, would 'should've' etc only be used in conversation only and written fully i.e should have, in written. just a thought
deecollings 1 year ago
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jyoder0612 1 year ago
Your, I mean YOU'RE awesome!! :)
jyoder0612 1 year ago
When I was teaching English in Japan, I worked with a teacher from Australia who was "as rough as guts". We taught conversation-based English, and the Japanese learn grammar in high school, so very often students had a better grip on grammar, at least from a technical perspective. The Australian teacher came out of a lesson with some high-level students, shaking his head. "I don't know were they learned English," he said. "They kept saying should have, instead of should of!"
thedarkcanuck2007 1 year ago
Thanks for the great feedback. I'm uploading the videos to TeacherTube right now.
TheGrammarGirl 1 year ago
I used to teach high school Spanish, and once when I was teaching students how to use the past perfect subjunctive, I had a girl correct me when I said: "If I had known you were going to be late, I would have waited for you." (Or something similar) Her reply: "It's not would HAVE, it's would OF!"
By the way, you really ought to place these vodcasts on the TeacherTube website as well as YouTube. Most school teachers can't access YouTube because of district web filtering software.
jyoder0612 1 year ago
Mignon, I LOVE these new vodcasts! I listen to your podcasts all the time, and although I love those, it's fun to see you in person doing these. You have a such a great personality and you are sooo smart. You have helped my writing immensely and I continue to work on my speaking, daily. I just want to say thank you.
It's easy to forget and to second guess yourself on pronouncing and writing these contractions. Although they are correct, they still just don't look right spelled out.
LeahMacVie 1 year ago