Hi, welcome to engVid. If you look very carefully, this snowblower is the devil's number. 666.
Joke. I say that because in Canada, even though it's cold, it's hell here. It's freezing.
Anyway, welcome to engVid. And today's lesson. For those of you who have been following for
a while, there is a method called the SEAM method. A method in which I take a lot of
the common modals and put them together in a way that you can actually understand them.
Not understand is one way. Remember is almost more important. You can remember them and
understand how to use them. Today, we're going to do the ESK. In the previous lessons, we
did EXPRESS, PAN, ASK for a PASS, and today, SEAM like POP. See POP. You're going to say,
"What is POP? What does it have to do with modals?" That's what the next ten minutes
is for, son. Let's go. All right, so POP. Okay, so we go C and S. Well, the S really
stands for STATE. STATE means to say. When you state something, you say it. In this case,
we're going to state or say our preferences or our opinions. P for preference, OP for
POP. I've got to thank Mr. E on this one. High five, Mr. Boom. Gave me the idea before
like why, blah, blah, blah. I was like, "I don't know," and he said, "Try POP," so I
did POP. Remember, state POP, preference and opinion. What do we mean by this? Well, let's
do preference because I like things and you like things. Sometimes, you want other people
to know. Well, a lot of times, you want other people to know what you like. Now, here's
what we use to do that with modals. We actually use the modal WOULD. Why do we use the modal
WOULD? I'll tell you why. Because we use it as a conditional in English, meaning, well,
like other modals, it's not 100% guaranteed. In this case, we're saying, "Under these conditions,
I like something or I like something better than something else." It expresses the imaginary,
what I would like it to be because it's not that way now, but I would like it this way
or I can imagine having this. By using WOULD, we get the power of saying what I could imagine
liking or having, what I would prefer, and then the conditions I would like it. How do
we use it? Well, there are three words that usually go when I say, "I prefer something."
It's easy. You could say, "I prefer," "I rather," "I like," but when we use modals, we put on
that potential. We talk about possibility. I would prefer because you're saying, "I would
like it to be this way." It's not this way right now. We should look at prefer and rather.
Prefer is choice. This is what I would like more. Rather means basically the same thing.
We have like. Like is, "I do like it." Now, when we use like, we usually use it with the
verb in the base. "I would like to," sorry, before I forget, "to," we use this and we
use a verb in the base. Another word is an infinitive. That's when there's nothing added
on, no "s," no "ing" or "ed." I would like to go to the store right now. That's what
I would prefer my preference in doing. I would like to do other things, but I'd really like
to do this. When we use prefer, it's a little different. I would prefer something, we use
the gerund form. I would prefer shopping. I'd prefer to go shopping. Use a gerund that
follows this one. I would prefer running to sitting around here. I would prefer watching
TV than cleaning the house. We use the gerund form with the prefer.
With rather, we just use a verb in the base. You don't really need to say, "I'd rather
to." In fact, you can't say "to." I would rather sleep than talk to you for another
five minutes. I would prefer to do this. We've got the three different types that usually
goes with would, that shows our preference, and how we would make them conjugate. This
one is to plus verb in the base. This one was generally followed with a gerund. This
one, nothing, just the verb in the base. That's your preference option.
Now, let's move over here. Let's talk about opinion. What is your opinion on something?
I would prefer the blue dress to the red dress. In this case, I'm using it as prefer. What
happens if I said... Sorry, slow down for you here. What happens if I said to you, "I
wouldn't believe anything that man says?" Is this true? Remember, would talks about
conditional and imaginary. I'm not saying it's a fact. I'm saying it's probably true,
so it's not 100% like can or will. We're looking here, and we're saying, "I believe. I wouldn't
believe." Percentage, maybe 20% believe him, mostly not because we want to talk about that
conditional and that imaginary. I think what he says is a lie. That's my opinion. The reason
why it's opinion is because it's not actually a fact I can prove to you.
Next, I would shoot him if he did that to my wife. That's my opinion, but also it's
imaginary because I'm actually not doing it. When we talk about opinions, we're not saying
it's reality. We're saying that's how we think or we would imagine reality to be and the
conditions reality would have to be. Cool? We've done seem, and you've learned something
else about stating pop. What's pop? Stating your preference or your opinion. How do we
do it? Well, if we use would with the words like, prefer, or rather, which show things
you like more, we just have to look at how we use it. Verb plus to plus verb in the base.
For prefer, verb plus ing or gerund form, and for rather, just verb in the base usually
follows. Not bad, huh? For our opinion, we can say would or wouldn't with the verb in
the base and state directly, I would, she would, da, da, da, and usually goes with words
like believe or think because those are your opinions.
I had a complicated sentence before which was, I would think that he wouldn't do something
like that. You'll see the word would is used twice, right? But once again, expressing our
opinion and disbelief about a situation that happened. Long story short, we can use would
for our opinions and use would for our preferences. If you want to see the other three parts of
the seem method, please go back to where would you go? Where would you go? Well, I would
like you to go to, preference, engVid, which is www.eng as in English, vid as in video
.com. I believe you would find it very entertaining and you would learn a lot from it. And as
I told you, I'd rather you go there than anywhere else. What else are you going to do? Watch