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The Level Up English Podcast

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How to Talk English to Everyone

If you have an appointment that was made previously, we can use present tense and a future time phrase. Many English learners will say I will be 30 tomorrow. There's nothing wrong with this sentence but it's not so specific. To be 30 is a state and that's going to be true for the entire year. But if we use the verb turn, like I mentioned before, I will turn 30. That only happens once. You turn 30 tomorrow, but the day after tomorrow, you have stopped turning 30 because you will have already turned 30. And that brings me on to my last point, the hardest one of all. If you are a beginner, don't worry too much about

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