AEE 2568: We’ll See What Happens With This English Grammar

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Lindsay McMahon 0:00
This is an All Ears English podcast, episode 2568. We'll see what happens with this English grammar.
Aubrey Carter 0:09
Welcome to the All Ears English Podcast, downloaded more than 200 million times. Are you feeling stuck with your English? We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing on connection, not perfection, with your American host, Aubrey Carter, the IELTS whiz, and Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer. coming to you from Arizona and Colorado, USA. And to get your transcripts delivered by email every week, go to allearsenglish.com forward slash subscribe. When you talk about the future, do you sometimes make the mistake of using the word will too often? Find out if you're making this common mistake and how to avoid it.
Lindsay McMahon 1:05
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Lindsay McMahon 1:56
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Aubrey Carter 2:14
Hey, Lindsay, how are you? Hey there, Aubrey. Doing well, doing well. What about you?
Lindsay McMahon 2:19
I've been thinking about the future a little bit lately, mostly because I watched Pluribus on Apple TV. Have you seen that yet, Lindsay? I know I recommended it.
Aubrey Carter 2:28
I know it's on my list.
Lindsay McMahon 2:29
You need to watch it. I can't wait to talk to you about it.
Aubrey Carter 2:31
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's on our list. It's on our list.
Lindsay McMahon 2:34
But I am wondering, what about you? Do you often think about the future?
Aubrey Carter 2:38
Or do you live in the moment more? Yeah, I do. So when we took StrengthsFinder, one of my top five strengths, quote unquote, was, I don't know if it's called futurist or futuristic, but I do think a lot. I feel like I spend a lot of time thinking about the future, kind of. Yeah.
Lindsay McMahon 2:53
Yeah. Yeah, interesting. Some people do and some people less a little bit. But we got a great question from Pei Yao in our community, one of our amazing students. And we're going to dive into grammar a little bit answering her amazing question.
Aubrey Carter 3:09
Yeah. And by the way, if you're wondering what the community is, when you join any one of our courses, you get automatic access and membership in our community where you can ask questions about your course, connect with other students, find out the schedule for live speaking events and other things like that.

What common mistakes do English learners make with future tense?

Lindsay McMahon 3:25
Yes, it's an amazing community, supportive, active, so many awesome students. Hopefully all of you out there will have a chance to join, take a course so that you can join the community and get to know all of these amazing members.
Aubrey Carter 3:38
Yeah, and I love that Payal asked this question, I guess, was it based on an episode?
Lindsay McMahon 3:44
Yes, it was about an All Ears English episode.
Aubrey Carter 3:46
Okay, so here's the question. I wonder why Lindsay said, we'll see what happens instead of we'll see what will happen on the podcast. Can you please explain? I love this question. I'm not surprised we got this question. It's a great one, Aubrey.
Lindsay McMahon 4:00
Yes. And Peyo is always asking amazing questions, diving into the grammar and the why of things. And this is a great one. So I'm excited to answer this question here today with you guys and give you all of the specifics because we do, whether you think a lot about the future or not, we often use the future tense in this way.
Aubrey Carter 4:21
Oh, for sure. It's a very common chunk, right? We'll see what happens. So break down the grammar for us, Aubrey. Let's do the hard part first.
Lindsay McMahon 4:28
Yes, right. So the top line present tense is used in subordinate clauses when the main clause is in the future tense. even though both actions refer to the future.

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