Speak Better English with Harry | Episode 11

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• 00:10

  Hi there.

• 00:10

  This is Harry, and welcome back to the podcast where we're trying to help you with your english language.

• 00:17

  I'm going to read each sentence for you twice.

• 00:20

  The first time, just to have an understanding generally what it means.

• 00:23

  And then I'll go through the sentence in a little bit more detail as to what is behind it.

• 00:30

  And as always, if you want to contact me, please do on my email, and the details will be given later on.

• 00:37

  Okay, so if you're ready, let's begin.

• 00:39

  First sentence and the first reading.

• 00:42

  I should be obliged if you would.

• 00:44

  All attend the meeting on Thursday because it is very important.

• 00:51

  Second reading, I should be obliged if.

• 00:54

  You would all attend the meeting on Thursday because it is very important.

• 00:59

  Okay, so the first thing to be said about this sentence is that it's quite formally written.

• 01:05

  So it's written in formal English.

• 01:08

  So it's obviously business English because it's referring to a meeting that's important.

• 01:15

  So it's probably written by CEO or somebody senior in an organization, and he's not giving the people an opportunity to miss the meeting because he's been quite strong at the beginning.

• 01:29

  I should be obliged if you would.

• 01:33

  Yeah.

• 01:33

  So it's meaning that he really wants you to be there, and there's no excuse not to be there.

• 01:40

  So we're using these modal verbs again.

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