Things you have to do
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Do you have any social obligations? Beth and Neil talk about doing things they don't really want to do and our grammar guru Georgie explains ways to talk about social obligations. Learn to use 'have to', 'be meant to', 'be supposed to' and how to use the second conditional.
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Second conditional If + past simple; would + base form When we talk about the consequences of not meeting social obligations, we are often talking about a hypothetical situation. We can use the second conditional to talk about these.
have to: We use have to to talk about obligations that come from other people, or from rules. be supposed to/be meant to: We can say that we are supposed to do something when there's an expectation that we do something. We also use this when we don't do what we are are expected to do