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In today's episode, we complete our three-part series
on State of Verbs.
Learn how to articulate your feelings and perceptions
in a modern way with new English grammar options.
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Hey, Aubrey, I have a question for you to start off today.
All right, let's do it.
So is there anything that you're feeling anxious about
at this moment?
Yeah, a little bit, I'm going to Sedona this weekend.
And I am the type of vacation person that's like,
go, go, go, do all the hikes, do all the fun things.
And I'm going with girlfriends that are like chill by the pool
friends.
So I have to really pull myself back.
And I'm a little anxious that it's going to be tough.
Yeah, that's right.
So you're not the type to sit by the pool.
You want to go be active, do something.
Right.
Like a little of that would be okay,
but I can't do that all day for three days.
So we'll see how it goes.
Hopefully I can talk them into some fun activities.
Well, good luck.
Let us know back on the show.
Well, after your trips to Sedona,
sounds incredible.
We want to hear about it for sure.
Yeah.
Anxiousness, right?
Anxiety is something I asked you about.
And the grammar was interesting here,
because you didn't say, do you feel anxious about it here
right now?
You said, is there anything you're
feeling anxious about?
So listeners, you may have this might have triggered you.
Like, why this is a state of verbal?
Why is there present progressive textbooks
told me I can't do that?
But we do do it with some state of verbs.
Yes.
We're coming back to our archanimous, right?
The state of verb and the confusion
that we can have sometimes around state of verbs.
But on all those English,
we're clearing it up for you guys,
showing new language trends, you know,
rules that we're just breaking.
And it's okay and when it's not okay.
So this is part three of a part of a three part series.
All right.
Exactly.
You don't want to miss part one,
which was state of verbs for emotions,
like like and love, right?
I'm loving this right now.
That was 2220.
Like we're liking your grammar questions answered, right?
And part two was where we talked about thoughts and opinions
that was episode 2223.
Are you thinking this is tricky English grammar, right?
Exactly.
So our list guys, go find those episodes, listen,
and then come back here, make sure you are following
this podcast for more amazing series across the entire network.
All right, of all our English, right?
Yes, exactly.
So today we're diving into the third type of state of verb.
There are three, which this one is feelings and perceptions.
So we'll first share the state of verbs
that can be both present tense
or present progressive with examples.
And then we're going to share those that cannot,
that really need to just be used in present tense.
Yeah. And we're exposing the classic myth
that many of our listeners learned in school,
which is that they'll tell you your teachers,
your textbooks, your classrooms will tell you
state of verbs are never used in the I and G form.
But this is the proof that they are actually sometimes used.
Exactly.
At least in the states around the world,
I feel like this is trending like you said, Lindsay,
this is getting more common.
Yes.
No one's going to bat an eye when we use them this way.
And in fact, it feels more native and natural.
And again, as you listen today, if you get frustrated,
you get confused, come back to connection.
Right, we're teaching this because this is an opportunity.
If you use these ones in the modern native way,
it's an opportunity to connect.
So that's always what we're going for, guys.
Okay. Exactly.
So let's dive into the first one under our bucket
of can be used in both present, simple and present
progressive, which is B, B verbs, right?
He is being quiet right now.
And of course, you could also say he is quiet,
which is he is acting quiet, but we use B in both.
Yeah.
And it's different, right?
When we say he's being quiet, it's really about this present
moment.
Exactly.
The same meaning would be he is acting quiet,
but we also use B both in both verb gences.
And it sounds very natural to me.
Often chunks that I'll use, you're being weird.
Well, it is my partner sometimes.
What's going on?
You're being weird.
Is there something wrong?
What's happening?
I was like, you're being quiet.
You're being silly.
You're being fun.
All of them.
Very common, okay?
And it's a state of verb, but hey, look at this.
We break the rules.
Feel is another one.
Exactly.
I'm feeling anxious like you asked at the top of the episode
is anything you're feeling anxious about?
Or I feel sick.
Could also say I'm feeling sick.
This we use both ways for sure.
And like you said, Lindsay, as a reminder,
definitely get a deeper dive in those first two episodes,
but it's all about if there's time, right?
These are temporary things we're feeling in the moment
that maybe not always.
Yeah, interesting.
Okay.
So being able to articulate your feelings
in the current moment, super important.
You know, basically I'm feeling sick.
In this case, I'm feeling sick versus I feel sick.
Basically, it means the same thing, right?
It's all about the time, right?
Is it something that seems very temporary?
It's like, okay, I'm feeling sick.
Maybe like morning sickness.
I would have been like, I'm feeling sick.
Cause I know it's going to pass in a few minutes.
It'll be a toast and I'll be fine.
But if like I have COVID, I'd probably be like, I feel sick.
But I feel like for this one, I would say,
I could say the same thing.
If I had morning sickness in this moment,
oh, I feel sick.
It's morning sickness.
I'm really feeling sick.
Aubrey, I think I need to finish early, right?
So work for sure.
Cause with sickness, it's always a temporary state, right?
It's more active.
Like, let's hope you're not.
It's not a state that you'll be in forever.
Yes, yes, 100%.
And then the next one is smell.
Okay.
So tell us about this one, Aubrey.
Yeah.
So you might say, I'm smelling hints of saffron.
If you're like smelling a dish, and this is very temporary,
I'm describing a smell that I smell right now in this moment.
And then we also use smell as a state of verb and present tense.
Like, do you smell that?
Ooh, it smells good in here.
Yes.
And remember, we're talking about perceptions and this,
you know, the senses are a way of perceiving the world,
taking it in.
And then the next sense is taste, right?
Right.
You know, I'm saying.
Taste all of these if they're a bunch of desserts.
And what you mean is I am going to taste all of these,
but you're saying, okay, I'm tasting all of these.
Yes, I love it.
Or you have to taste to at least taste it.
You have to try it.
Okay.
This I say to my kids all the time.
They're like, yeah, this is gross.
You have to at least taste it.
Yeah, I don't know what it is that kids get over that fear
of these unknown flavors, right?
Whether they come in now, adults tend to be more willing
to try new things, not in all cases, but in some cases, right?
Yeah.
And this is interesting because it's tricky with some of these
where it's like, is this state of, is this ever?
When we say like, this tastes good.
That's a state of verb, right?
This is, it's interesting.
These are tricky.
It's just good to know like you can use a verb I N G.
It's acceptable.
No, you didn't.
Natives do it.
You don't have to stress about it,
even if your textbook told you you can't.
And what about just one to one comparison?
This tastes good.
This is tasting good.
Yeah, same.
I feel like it's interesting.
You're kind of just talking about that actual moment.
Some things in your mouth tasting good right now.
But that's absolutely.
Yep.
And that's where we see the trendiness of this role being broken.
Right?
I don't think in like the 50s, they said that.
Exactly.
Do you know what I mean?
It's pulling people into that present moment.
It's just language evolves, right?
Yeah.
Modern language.
We're doing it a lot.
And I say, I'm loving this chocolate cake in the 50s we do now.
Right.
Yes.
100%.
Then continuing with the senses, hearing.
Right?
Sorry.
Are you hearing that or do you hear that?
These mean the same thing, right?
Right.
In this moment, are you hearing this?
Yeah.
And you would also just be like, do you hear that?
And it's exactly the same with C.
Are you seeing this or do you see that?
Yeah.
They mean the same.
Basically the same.
Yeah.
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Okay.
Then we have our bucket of verbs that we can't break the rule.
We don't add I and G.
We don't use these in the present progressive.
So first is seam.
This seems strange.
And I think the reason you can't say like this is seeming strange is the word seam is one
of those like classic state of verbs where it can't be an action.
It can't be a momentary feeling.
Right.
So when we're adding verb I and G, we're sort of turning it into an action verb.
It has 100%.
Yeah, I agree.
This one.
Don't put it in the I and G.
It'd be weird.
It'd be weird.
Appears.
She appears to be a reasonable person.
Right.
Right.
Same thing.
Right.
This is very much like seams.
She seems to be reasonable.
She appears to be reasonable.
But here's what's tricky about a peer.
You are going to hear the word appearing.
Right.
Because this is a present continuous action verb with a totally different meaning.
We use it to say like pink is currently appearing at Madison Gardens.
This does not mean seam.
Right.
It means performing.
Or you might say she's always appearing when I least expect her again.
This is a totally different verb, an action verb.
That means to show up out of nowhere.
So this is a little tricky because some verbs like appear are a state of verb with a totally
different meaning than the actual verb of the same word.
English, that is crazy.
Oh my gosh.
This is this is B2 level here.
You know what I mean?
B2 moving into C1 level for our listeners.
It's where we push through this confusion.
I mean, just the difference in those two meanings is very subtle, but it's also very drastic
in conversation.
It is.
Right.
So here's her pro tip.
If you if you see appears in a sentence where you want to use it, can you replace it with
seam?
Right.
She appears to be reasonable.
She seems to be reasonable.
Life so it's a state of verb.
Don't add I.
She you could not say she is appearing to be reasonable.
Nope.
She appears.
And if it doesn't, if you can't replace it with seam, then it could be verb I and G,
right?
Pink is appearing at Madison Square Gardens.
We love your pro tips.
We love it when you come in with these the zingers, right?
These pro tips and it just makes things easier.
And so that is the way.
Yeah.
Can you replace it with seams?
Then that is such a good point.
And it's the first meaning the state of verb.
That means the same as appear as a state of verb.
And unfortunately the same word appear is a verb with a totally different meaning.
Oh my gosh.
Okay.
Well, our listeners love role plays.
And so let's bring it back to a conversational role play.
So here, Aubrey, we are at a dining in the dark restaurant.
I think I've been to one of these before.
Have you I never have?
I kind of want to.
Train to remember where it even was, but it sounds very familiar.
I think it was a while ago and you were drinking a lot.
Yeah, probably.
I don't remember where.
I know.
Or it was just very dark.
So I was just confused and lost the whole time.
So also possible.
All right, here we go.
Go for it.
I'll start us out.
Yeah.
I can't tell what I'm tasting.
Maybe salmon.
Oh me neither.
It tastes like maimahi maybe.
Oh, I'm feeling a little nervous about this.
Same.
I feel like I'm going to stab myself in the eye with a fork.
This seemed like such a good idea in theory.
Yeah, weird, right?
I love this role play.
I was cracking myself up writing this role play.
Yeah, I mean, is there a business for that?
Is there a business model for that?
Do people I think people want to know what they're eating?
You know, I know there is.
I know people do this.
And I think it's been you sense everything you taste.
Everything more potently in the dark, I guess.
And it's an experience.
I would do it.
Yeah, maybe I didn't go to one by thought about going to one.
I don't know.
I feel like I would remember it.
Yeah, one of my favorite films about time they meet.
It's their meet cute.
They're like seated at the same table.
These two girls, they're two boys.
And they like hit it off and it's so cute.
And they don't know what each other looks like.
And they come out of the restaurant
and see each other for the first time.
It's so adorable.
Yeah, that makes me think we should do.
Maybe we should interview someone in Hollywood.
But we should do an episode about Hollywood,
classic Hollywood terms, the meet cute,
the treatment of the script.
Like these are all insider terms you hear in LA.
You really don't hear otherwise that much.
That's fine someone from Hollywood.
You need to follow that on some Hollywood.
Yeah, I love that.
I actually know a director.
I might reach out to him.
We love that.
I would be cool.
We'll be waiting for that episode up right here.
OK, let's go through the role play.
So here we go.
You said, I can't tell what I'm tasting.
So I and G, this makes me almost
would be strange to say I can't tell what I taste.
Because it's so like what I'm tasting right now,
I'm making it an action.
I'm making it have time.
So I would actually really encourage the use of verbi and G
here.
It just sounds more right to me.
It's so subtle here because there
would be a place to use taste.
If I were serving you the meal, hey, you obviously
don't know what's on this plate.
Let us know what you taste.
That's right before you receive the meal.
Are we going to a taste taste?
Yeah.
But as you are exactly eating it, you
might be more likely to say, I can't quite tell what I'm tasting.
Yeah, that's interesting.
It is subtle.
So quick tip to not stress about this, right?
With a lot of these, you can use either verbi and G
or present tense.
Don't let this stop you for making these connections.
But we get so many questions from listeners about this
because they hear natives using both a text
because they can't.
So we wanted to break it down, let you know why.
Why you're hearing both.
But don't let us stress you out.
Most cases, both are fine.
Like I said, once you really master this,
you're really moving into near native fluency
advanced C1 level.
So guys, don't worry about it.
Focus on connection.
So then we had an example of using tastes.
I said, me neither.
It tastes like mahi mahi maybe.
And again, that works too.
Yes.
And this is more if you think of it, it's a state of verb here
because it tastes like mahi mahi.
It would always taste like mahi mahi.
There's no time.
Yeah.
And it's also a chunk.
What does it taste like?
Oh, it tastes like chocolate ice cream, right?
It tastes like mahi mahi.
Yeah.
Good.
And then I'm feeling a little nervous, articulating
your current feelings.
Yeah.
And I for sure could say, I feel a little nervous
about this bull who worked, right?
But we do do this.
I'm feeling nervous right now in this moment.
So it's more to do that episode is more about you
have another option, less about it would be wrong
to use the non-Ian G4.
Right?
It's more about letting you go to the guys,
no, why you're hearing this?
Why you're hearing natives?
Yeah.
Because when we get so many questions, I get it.
That's confusing.
Yeah.
And then I said, same.
I feel like I'm going to stab myself in the eye.
Yes.
And then I said, this seemed like such a good idea.
And I just realized that I did it when I said,
you're hearing these.
You probably think it should be you hear these.
Right.
But state of her hearing, we use it both ways.
Perfect example.
Wow.
You knew and tried to do that example.
And it just came out.
I just noticed I was like, oh, hey, there it is.
I love it.
So what's the takeaway?
I mean, again, guys, not to get stressed out,
we know you have questions.
This is more about observing, right?
What you hear out in the world and maybe trying this out
a little bit.
Yeah.
And I think it's helpful for you to know, like,
textbooks teachers might have taught you this is wrong.
So you're confused why you hear natives doing it.
It's good to recognize that like textbooks aren't always
right about how natives actually speak in daily conversations.
It's also possible that some of the textbooks you may have
studied in school were written in the 60s or the 70s
and are not getting updated.
And languages changing.
That's the other piece of this.
Some of these were seeing it as more of a trend
in the last five or 10 years.
Or they're teaching very formal English.
And this is very conversational English.
Right.
A lot of these I probably wouldn't write in a paper.
Like, oh, the way we speak.
Yeah.
And we said that in one of the previous episodes too.
Exactly.
This is not about written English.
Guys, today is about spoken English.
OK.
So we sure to check out this whole series.
So you get all the details about the state of verbs
and how you can use them in English for deeper connections.
All right. Good stuff, Aubrey.
I will talk to you soon.
Have a good day.
Awesome.
Thanks, Lindsay.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
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