'If I were to just give you some really common ones' and 'just to kind of close'

[Serzige]

Hey Everybody!

I was looking for some articles on the web that were easy to read for some students I have. So, in that little research I found two sentences that are not way clear for me. Here they are:

The first one says: "If I were to just give you some really common ones" This one is taken from an interview that talks about "Reduced Forms in Speech". And here is the paragraph that refers to what I am mentioning.

"NINA WEINSTEIN: "I wouldn't say there's a top ten. If I were to just give you some really common ones, one of the more common question forms would be 'what do you/what are you' changing to whaddaya. You can put that together with want to -- 'what do you want to' would be naturally pronounced as whaddaya wanna: 'Whaddaya wanna do?' 'Whaddaya wanna have?' Of course, we talked about gonna, which is 'going to' plus verb.

However, I just wanna know why the interviewee said "I were to just give you." I mean, If I understand the idea she could say, "If I were just going to give you..." Because for me, as a latinamerican guy, that phrase is not quite clear. Then, could you put that phrase in other words? Please!
By the way! If you want to read the whole article you can go to this link: http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/archive/2007-01/2007-01-10-voa1.cfm
It's very interesting!

The second phrase is this: "just to kind of close it and end it" and again here is the paragraph where I took this from.

ARMSTRONG: "Right after the qualifications summary, I would do work experience, unless you just recently completed a degree, in which case you want to probably highlight your education. But I would do the experience, then the education, then skills -- either computer skills or interpersonal skills -- and then a tag line at the bottom about references, just to kind of close it and end it."

As you see the whole article mentions some tips to get a Job, ok? and its link is this: http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/archive/2002-07/2006-12-14-voa1.cfm

Anyway, in this phrase I don't understand anything whatsoever. Because I can't identify which one is the verb "Just" or "Close"? I really don't know 'cause that way of building the sentence is very odd for me...Last, help me to get this please, Cause I am misplaced right now. Thank you!
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Sergio M.
"Life is too short to grieve in sorrow"

[diverhank]

"If I were to" is used to represent something that is not true...Like I'm not going to but if I were to, I would...

"Kind of" is an expression to indicate "almost but not quite", to soften the action or description that follows...For example, you'd say "she's kind of cute" to express that she's cute but not so cute that I would have a mad crush on her...