Can You Use I Bet

hi i’m vanessa from speak english with

vanessa calm today we’re going to talk

about one of the most used phrases that

i use that my english students don’t

know it’s the phrase i bet let’s get

started the phrase i bet means simply i

could imagine

or i think so i could imagine

i could imagine that you are pretty sad

because your dog died but it’s a much

more casual fluent thing to say if you

say i bet that you were really sad

when your dog died you are talking or

imagining someone else’s emotions i bet

that you are really sad when your dog

died i imagine that you were really sad

i don’t know i am not certain but I bet

you were really sad when your dog died

or I bet that you’re hoping to get a

raise at the end of the month I don’t

know that you want to get a raise at the

end of the month I’m not certain but I

could say oh yes I bet that you want to

get a raise at the end of the month I

bet that you’re curious if you’re going

to get a raise at the end of the month

it’s thinking about someone else’s

emotions thinking about someone else’s

thoughts the second way to use

I bet is to think about something that

might happen in the future so you could

say I bet that I’m going to break my leg

when I go skiing because I have terrible

balance I bet that it’s going to happen

I think it will probably happen I have a

suspicion that it will probably have an

I bet that I’m going to break my leg I

bet or you could say I bet that it’s

going to rain today it’s really cloudy

and that’s true it’s very cloudy

actually it is raining right now so I

bet that it’s going to rain today it’s

really cloudy if it is only cloudy if

it’s not raining like it is now you

could say

I bet that it’s going to rain today I

think it will probably rain today it’s

the same thing as saying I think it will

probably rain today maybe it will rain

today I bet that it’s going to rain

today so my question for you is can you

use I bet in a sentence that you think

of so in the comments below I would like

you to write a sentence using I bet I

bet that you’re really sad that your dog

died I bet that it’s going to rain today

I bet and if you go over to my website

here you can see some more examples of

how to use I bet thanks so much and I’ll

talk to you later

good bye

you