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Native Constructions you WON'T find in Textbooks!

"What I just said wasn't entirely accurate. Let me rephrase it"

"What you just said is absolutely true; I agree 100%"

"That's life; there's nothing we can do about it"

"Never mind, we have to just accept the situation"

"I better go to work. I have to be there at 9am"

Using 'better' instead of 'should' or 'ought to'

"I have to say, this is my honest opinion"

"Despite what I just said, here's an alternative view" or "Taking what I just said into consideration..."

"Do you think we should X?"

eg, "How about we go for a coffee?"

"So far"

eg, "As yet, I haven't been able to start the other project"

"It would be my feeling that..."

eg, "I feel as though I need to start looking for a new job"

"I think" or "I know"

eg, "I appreciate you've been working hard lately, but..."

"My opinion is"

eg, "I find my new colleague to be quite rude"

Taking into consideration the worst case scenario

eg, "I dread to think what'll happen if the company starts making redundancies"

"There's no point of doing that"

eg, "Not having pizza in Italy defeats the object of going there in the first place"

Something intrinsic to

eg, "Back pain is part and parcel of working in construction"

"I didn't" (very informal)

eg, "I never knew Anna was working here!"

"If not" or "If that doesn't happen"

eg, "I'm going to Berlin for Christmas, but the hotel prices are so expensive. So, failing that, I'll spend Christmas with my family"

"That's a coincidence"

eg, "I'm going to Poland next month", 

"Funny you should mention that, I just got back from Warsaw last week"

"Despite"

eg. "Even though I've been working here for 5 years, I've never had a pay rise"

"Coincidentally" or "You're in luck!"

eg, "I need to put together a Powerpoint presentation but I've never done it before"

"Well, it just so happens that I'm the expert"

"Me too"

eg, "I really like the new Marvel movie"

"As do I"

"At any time"

eg, "At any given moment, we could lose our jobs"

Used when describe a sequence of events or, "Consequently"

eg, "The doctor started the operation but discovered more tumours than expected. In turn, he decided to re-evaluate his approach"