How to use COULD and SHOULD for advice in English

my name is alicia and in this week's live lesson we are going to talk about how to use could and should i'm going to talk about three ways that we use these words in today's lesson we're going to talk about suggestions and advice we are going to talk about how to express regret and we are also going to talk about possibility so i hope that everyone gets some good practice with these modal verbs there are lots and lots of questions every week about how to use these so i hope that this is a useful lesson for lots of people so as you join please please please please please please please make sure to hit the like button and share this video so that other people can find today's lesson that would be super super cool okay uh as we wait as we wait a couple of quick announcements oh i lost my proma banner just a second uh this there is a if you check the link below the video if you're watching on youtube or above the video if you're watching on facebook you will find a 55 off deal that the 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focus just on these i'm not going to cover using the others today so we're just gonna talk about these two we'll talk about suggestions and advice and possibility and regret uh so i hope that we can cover a lot of things today okay all right uh so let's get started with the first part of today's lesson let's get into suggestions and advice okay i can't see today it's really hard to see okay so let's get into today's first topic which is how to give suggestions to give and receive suggestions to give and receive advice so first let's take a look at this grammar pattern so the first pattern i want to talk about is how we give recommendations to other people so subject could or subject should is the base pattern to make it negative we include a not here before our infinitive verb and then we have our sentence so let's talk about the differences okay so let's talk about the difference between could and should in this kind of pattern so the could use here could is used to show that the suggestion or the advice is possible possible so that means it's just like a neutral comment a neutral idea yeah so this is something that um we just want to say we can do this thing or it's possible to do this thing okay so this is a question sometimes that people have about the difference between kid and like does this mean high chance of something or what so please note that this means that there is just a neutral possibility okay so that is point number one point number two is about should should so when we use should it means that the suggestion or the advice is some kind of recommendation yeah so it's like i'm sharing my opinion is kind of the idea yeah so it's like saying i think that you should do this i'm giving you my personal advice okay so this is the difference between these two and when we use this not form we make it negative so let's take a look at some examples and if you send me your examples we can try to check things live uh in the chat so let's take a quick look at the first one so first one simple pattern you should study every day you should study every day so as i talked about before this use of should expresses the speaker's opinion right it expresses that we think that this is true or that this is a good idea okay so this is the feeling with this kind of thing should and could are both completely correct in this sentence so could in this position is also 100 correct but it's just giving like a suggestion in terms of something that is possible when we say should it's saying this thing is my personal recommendation not just possibility okay let's look at the next one we should leave soon we should leave soon okay so this one again is a personal recommendation yeah so with this one we're again expressing the speaker's feeling the speaker's idea here so we should leave soon we should leave soon this is my personal opinion again we could leave soon is also possible but this communicates a different idea we could leave soon we could leave soon that simply reports it's simply a report of something yeah okay so this is the difference between could and ship some more examples let's look at a negative he should not speak at the meeting he should not speak at the meeting so here's a negative so this behavior is not recommended that's what this is saying this behavior is not recommended so i don't think this is a good behavior he should not speak at the meeting okay another one they could arrive at any moment okay so now we're using could here so in this situation we're saying that this is something that is possible to do so we're saying it's possible for them to arrive at any moment we don't know for sure when they're going to arrive but we just want to express that it is possible to do that okay good all right so the next one then uh this next one is a conversation okay so we're looking at this conversation we could go out for dinner so someone is making a suggestion here this thing is possible right we could go out for dinner and the person that responds to this says it's really cold outside we could not go out for dinner let's stay home and watch a movie instead so i wanted to use this one i wanted to use this specific example because it's kind of something that you see a lot in movies like media tv shows and so on this is something that you sometimes hear when characters are making plans like hey we could do this like in person a's text we could do this but then person b says uh we could not we could not do that it's like a kind of funny friendly way to say oh well why don't we do something else instead i like my other idea instead okay so this is how we can express this and you'll probably see this used uh in like media and tv shows and stuff like that okay all right so this is how we use could and should okay so i'm looking to the chat for your questions i'm very busy today over my chat where's my chat okay let's see some examples are coming in we should pay more attention good uh randall says can i say you shouldn't do this yes definitely okay uh we should study more say some people good good good can we use could in the present that's what this is we could do this that's examples here we're talking about recommendations and advice here and now okay so uh this is uh what we use to talk about like our future ideas for like a moment from now okay uh other questions uh other examples some of you are already sending some past examples too we're going to talk about that later okay uh rosa says i could arrive at nine o'clock so again that's that's a good example it just expresses some possibility okay cool so this is our first part for today okay how to use should and could for suggestions and advice all right so great that was part one that was part one uh someone says is it british english no i am not a british english speaker i am an american english speaker this is american english all right so let's take one super quick break and then we will get to part two so if you missed it 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sure to hit the like button and share this video so other people can find today's lesson okay let's get to part two part two is about possibility possibility this one is maybe the trickiest one the one where i see maybe the most mistakes maybe so let's let's let's work hard let's work hard on this one so i'm i've called part to the possibility section but uh i want to focus on this pattern this pattern this use of should and could with the b verb so in part one we talked about using could to express possibility like for advice and suggestions so we also have that but i want to focus on this b verb use in part two here okay so let's practice using the b verb the b verb so when we make this pattern we have subject plus should in the negative not and then be and then the information after okay then we have subject could not be so subject should be or subject could be so what is the difference here when we use should in this pattern we express some kind of expectation yeah so there's some again some kind of feeling that we expect something is true or not true in this case okay and then on the other hand when we use could we express neutral possibility in the positive or impossibility in the negative something could not be which means it is definitely not possible for it to be true okay i'm looking for your questions okay all right so let's take a look at how we use these let's look at some examples and break them down okay so first one this is my like my favorite example to use with this grammar point is hmm my phone's gps says this is the correct address so we should be in the right place we should be in the right place so this is something that you use when you are looking for a location you're on your phone checking the map for some location and you're looking around like trying to find it and this is the sentence we use you think you think you're correct you expect you're correct you're checking your phone like so this expresses you think that you're correct we say we should be in the right place like this should be the right place okay so we're expressing an expectation there this this choice of should shows that expectation again in this sentence we can use good we could be in the right place that simply expresses it's possible should expresses expectation i expect we are in the correct place uh what about might yeah we can also use might in this position as well so we might be in the right place might has a lower level of possibility or lower level of expectation it's the difference i usually say this in other lessons where i talk about all of these together but when we use should there's like a higher level so for example should expresses like 80 percent certainty might is like 50 to 60. it's a bit less that's the feeling here yeah so we might be in the right place okay oh others okay i don't see other questions okay some people are saying uh wilmer writes today could be rain today could be rainy today could be rainy okay so when you follow when you when you finish your sentence like i left it this is open because there are many different ways we can end this sentence but if you want to uh have one quick guide you can use follow this be with an adjective yeah it could be rainy yeah okay uh all right let's continue to the next example here is a negative you shouldn't so shouldn't it should not reduced you shouldn't be in the office today it's your day off you shouldn't be in the office today it's your day off so what does this mean this means i expect my coworker should not there is no reason so i am pretty sure i'm pretty certain there's no reason for you to be here today why it's your day off so that's why i would say you shouldn't be in the office today yeah in this situation couldn't makes no sense you couldn't be in the office today that doesn't make any sense could not expresses something is impossible so we cannot use both in this situation okay uh other questions other questions uh rosa romero says i could be in my work maybe i could be at work i could be at work also consider if you are saying i could be about your current position it sounds weird right why are you making a guess about your current position like if i said now hmm i could be at the supermarket like you know i'm not at the supermarket right it sounds a little strange so maybe if you want to make a joke you could make a guess about your current position yeah okay so think about that right think about what you want to communicate all right on to the next one the next uh pair or the next the next one uses could could so here's an example a natural example of could be could be okay so he's not answering his phone he's not answering his phone he's not picking up his phone he could be speaking to a client he could be speaking to a client so this expresses it's possible it's possible he's speaking to a client right now that's the reason he didn't pick up the phone right so in this case he's not answering his phone he should be speaking to a client sounds kind of weird we're expecting he should these two don't really match if we use this one introduces a question like hmm he's not answering his phone i wonder why and then we have this idea this is possible oh he could be speaking to a client that might be the reason that's the feeling of this kind of sentence okay uh juancho says i could be playing soccer yes you could be maybe i could be playing soccer right now instead of doing this task that i don't want to do for example um some okay i want to mention maybe uh there are some examples that are coming in that use the infinitive verb here so for example like i could be eat or i could be sleep use the ing form of a if you want to use a verb use the ing form here so like i could be eating lunch right now for example or i could be taking a vacation right now so if you want to use a verb here use the ing form yeah maybe that would be a good guide here okay uh alrighty let's go to the next one which is right uh shouldn't or shouldn't oh the apostrophe it's the it's the uh the one with the apostrophe right here yeah i i put it in the wrong spot i was changing colors and i moved my apostrophe over one but yes it should be right here it should be right here okay uh all right let's go to the next example then the next example is a conversation so imagine you see someone when you are out in public like you see your co-worker at a shopping mall for example okay you say hey is that a co-worker is that our co-worker and then uh second person says no that couldn't be her she's working today no that couldn't be her she's working today so that means it's not possible no that's not possible it's not possible that that's her she's working today okay so we use this couldn't to express something is not possible that couldn't be her it is not possible for that to be her because she's working today i know this so we use these two to show that something is possible or impossible a condition or a temporary action is possible or impossible okay cool all right so here is how we use this grammar point these grammar points for possibility possibility okay so awesome let's take one more quick break and then we will go to the last part expressing regrets we're expressing regrets so we'll use uh the past tense forms here okay so if you missed it earlier there is a 55 off sale from the link below the video if you're watching on youtube or above the video if you're watching on facebook so if you click the link you will find this page you will find this which has all of the details all of the differences about the different study plans that we have on our website so have a look at this i will scroll down so you can see more you can take a look and choose the one that you think is the most interesting or the best match for your needs for your interest so have a look if you want to study with us okay cool so with that said let's go to the final part of today's lesson part three is looking part three the focus of part three is on regret regret so let's talk about how we use these points to express regret what is regret regret is a sad feeling about the past something we did incorrectly like a mistake we made or something we did not do and we feel bad about it or we feel sad about it how do we express that we use these two words we also use wood sometimes too let's focus on these for today okay so how do we use these for regret we use this pattern subject should or could have past participle verb should have past participle verb to make it negative we put not before have so i should not have verb he shouldn't or sorry he could not have verb okay so we used these patterns to express regrets things that happened and things that didn't happen so if you want more practice the today's lesson will be a kind of quick a short introduction to this grammar point if you want to practice this more i have many videos on the channel about this i will link them in the youtube description after this lesson too so if you want some homework or some review check it out okay so let's break this down should let's look at should when we use should in this pattern again we're expressing some recommendation like this is my opinion oh i should have done this or i shouldn't have done that it's like your personal opinion your personal feeling about something your recommendation for yourself or for another person okay when we use could we express something was possible or impossible so he could have done something means that was possible in the past or he couldn't have done something means that thing was impossible impossible okay so let's take a look at some example sentences to practice this point this one can be kind of tricky okay first one very very common one ah i should have studied for the test i should have studied for the test this means i didn't study i didn't study now i feel bad about it so i should have studied for the test some common mistakes i see with this grammar point i should study or i should have study so no we can't use study here i should have studied past participle yeah i should have studied for the test why why didn't i study right i should have studied for the test oh that was a mistake i failed it right i didn't get a very good grade okay all right another one you should have apologized to her you should have apologized to her so you're giving a recommendation to someone else after an argument or a fight or a big problem whatever you should have apologized to her that was rude or something so this means this is a past situation the other person did not apologize oh no so we're saying you should have you should have that was a mistake you should have apologized to her maybe you can like you you could apologize to her tomorrow so you can follow up with those present tense ones that we practiced in part one two oh you're sending lots of examples uh gia says i shouldn't have hurt his feelings very nice um some others from this part i should have gone to the doctor says miguel good okay sonny says i shouldn't have let the opportunity went away ah i shouldn't have let the opportunity go we use that expression to let something go yeah we we don't change that go to went to let something go to let an opportunity go so just make that one change and it's perfect okay rosa says we should not have eaten cake and cookies very good eric says i should have listened to you good leonard says oh there's so many chats okay i shouldn't have done that maybe not then that i shouldn't have done that or i could have done or been better very nice everybody's doing a great job here okay um i don't see questions about this section so i'm going to continue on ah there's so many ads on facebook i can't see your questions okay let's go uh to the next example sentence then the next one is a negative someone said this earlier in the chat i think we shouldn't have eaten junk food we shouldn't have eaten junk food so this one should not is the negative and have eaten so not we shouldn't have eat or we shouldn't have ate we shouldn't have eaten junk food we shouldn't have eaten junk food this means i did eat junk food i ate a lot of junk food and now i feel bad now i don't feel very good so we expressed that with this oh we shouldn't have eaten junk food keep in mind that when we use these especially when we're not feeling good the sentence becomes very kind of mushy so what do i mean when we say this sentence for example when we feel sick we don't speak very clearly we don't say oh we shouldn't have eaten junk food it sounds like oh shouldn't have been junk food it sounds really kind of smooshed together shouldn't eaten so this half sounds like a in native speech that's what this pronunciation is like okay in the positive you should apologize to her you should have apologized her i should have studied for the test so this have sounds like just uh shoulda shoulda okay also a native speaker mistake with this grammar point some native speakers write of instead of have because of this pronunciation point when we speak it sounds like should of shoulda or should of that's incorrect native speakers incorrectly right of here a lot it's not right don't do that should have is correct okay let's go on to the next one oh my gosh i'm already late okay uh let's talk about some good examples really quick okay i could have helped you with your work i could have helped you with your work so for example if you know your co-worker is super busy you can help them right but if you don't know your co-worker is super busy you can't help them right you don't know that they need help so if you want to express like ah why didn't you tell me i could have helped you with your work a past tense situation you can use this so could have helped you means it was possible for me to help you in the past so we didn't we would not use should here i should have helped you with your work would be if maybe you rejected someone like they said please help me and you said no and you think oh i should have helped you so could have again expresses that possibility okay let's go to the last two times running out she could have sent a message to tell us about the problem she could have sent a message to tell us about the problem so that means she did not send us a message to tell us about the problem like why she could have sent a message why didn't she that's strange so we're expressing a mistake in the past she could have sent a message to explain the problem but she didn't right so we often use this grammar point to talk about these past problems past mistakes okay uh osushi says you don't make the v sound when you pronounce shouldn't have naturally it depends a little bit on the sentence and on the person so sometimes we say i should have studied for the test some people might say you should have should have maybe it just depends on how fast we're speaking often though we just say shoulda should have should have studied for the test should've is also possible too there are a couple of different ways that we make this sound okay can you please repeat about the ing form after b that was in part two so i don't have time to go back to part two you can watch this video again though because it is being recorded okay let's go to the last part uh some examples on facebook are coming in one says i could have repaired the car myself nice okay so that sounds like there was a problem with the way your car was repaired nice okay salomon says i could have bought the car good so i didn't buy the car okay uh my food says you should have tried it on before purchasing it perfect very nice very nice good one for shopping you should have tried it on before purchasing it or you should have tried it on before buying it purchasing sounds a little more formal yeah we use buy more okay ahmet says i should not have missed your lessons oh did you miss my lesson that's okay okay let's go to the last point we could not have prevented this mistake it was simple human error simple human error we could not have prevented this mistake what does prevent mean to prevent something means to stop something from happening to stop something before it happens yeah so we could not have prevented this mistake it was impossible to prevent this mistake it was simple human error that means the cause was simple human error just one person made a small human mistake so we could not have prevented this it just happens sometimes so we express this with the negative we could not have prevented this okay all right so that is our final point for today we had a lot i'm very late i have to stop so if you missed it i will put up the screen uh the lesson boards for today so you can take a screenshot all right so here are today's lesson boards if you're ready so we talked about how to use should and could for suggestions and advice for possibility and for regret as i said uh there are i've made yeah i've made a lot of videos about this topic including wood 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