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Let’s start learning to use contractions in the easier part of the conditional past: the “if clause.”
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sounds like: |
| 1. If I had been… |
“If I’d been…” |
| 2. If I had not called… |
“If I hadn’t called…” |
| 3. If she had seen… |
“If she’d seen…” |
| 4. If they had gone... |
“If they’d gone…” |
Now let’s practice the second half of the past conditional sentence. There are two versions of this type of contraction: standard speech and casual speech.
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sounds like: |
casual speech: |
| 1. would have |
“would’ve” |
“woulda” |
| 2. would not have |
“wouldn’ve” |
“wouldna“ |
| 3. could have |
“could’ve” |
“coulda” |
| 4. could not have |
“couldn’ve” |
“couldna” |
| 5. should not have |
“shouldn’ve” |
“shouldna” |
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