AEE 2658: English Grammar That Will Make Your Day
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This is an All Ears English podcast, episode 2658, English grammar that will make your day.
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Hello, Aubrey.
How's it going? I'm great, Lindsay. How are you? Good. What are we talking about today? Well, I have a question to start us out here. Okay. What is something that happened recently that made your day?
Well, every time... And last week I picked up my dog from daycare and he was so excited to see me. It's like he jumped up over the thing to try to get out and was barking like crazy. And you could just tell like his mom's picking him up. So that was the best.
I love that. Yes. I used this phrase recently in our community because something one of the students posted really made my day. It was like a really positive comment about the podcast something. And I was like, that just made my day. And then a student asked... On that post, a really good question. They said, can we use the expression that made my day in other tenses? For example, you're making my day or he makes my day. I'm like, what a great question. This was Noriko. Shout out to Noriko in our community.
Yes. Hello, Noriko. Thanks for being an amazing member of our community. I mean, this is so important because we walk through the world and we go about our daily lives, but we don't realize we actually have impact on people, right? Totally. Yes.
And it's so nice when someone gives you that shout out, right? They acknowledge the impact, share what they're feeling, because a lot of us feel that and we don't think to let people know.
I know. We really should more often, right? Because then you'll make their day letting them know that they made your day.
What phrase are we learning to say when someone made your day?
Absolutely, right? Pay it forward. So let's talk about the phrase made my day.
Where do we start today? We're going to go into this one and then we'll share a few similar phrases we use because these are so great, like you said, for connection. We're also going to dive into the grammar of this. So that you know how this works because we do use it in other verb tenses. So first of all, made my day. Let's share a couple of examples. We might say, I received a message from an old friend that I hadn't spoken to in years and it really made my day.
Or it always makes my day when a coworker brings me a coffee. Of course.
Yeah. And there you used it in present simple. So this is interesting. We do say it often in past tense, that made my day. But we will, when we're talking about a general situation that would always make our day, we use it in present simple. This always makes my day.
Yeah, but we usually don't say, I mean, do we say that continuous tense, right? You're making my day.
Yeah, it's very rare, right? Like someone might be like, oh, you're making my day, you know, but it's super rare. Instead, we would usually say it in past tense because it already improved our day, right? Like even if we're talking to them, they said something that's already in the past. So we already would probably be like, that made my day.
Exactly, exactly. We've already had the experience. What about in present simple, Aubrey, here? Tell us some examples.
Yeah.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–2:54
2
What phrase are we learning to say when someone made your day?
2:54–9:21
3
How do you use 'that made my day' in past, present and future tenses?
9:21–10:41
4
When is it natural to say 'you’re making my day' versus 'that made my day'?
10:41–13:57
5
How can 'It always makes my day' and conditionals like 'It would make my day if...' be used?
13:57–14:57
Speakers
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