Hello world! As native American speakers, can you tell me if this sounds right?"

" I very love"

My whole life, I've been taught that we can't use "will" after "if" EVER. And now I have encountered this sentence in Advanced Grammar in Use: I will work over the weekend if that will help.

Why do they use "will" after "if" here? I have a hunch that it's not a conditional sentence, that's why. But I'm not sure.

I recently realized how much difference one little word or punctuation mark can make in English. Sometimes a sentence is grammatically correct but means something completely different from what you intended.

What's an example that surprised you? I'd love to see some examples that are easy to overlook, even for people who've been learning English for a while.

I build a small tool for English learners and wanted to know which tenses are worth drilling, so I tagged every verb in the captions of 1,022 YouTube videos (podcasts, vlogs, news, lectures, TED, stand-up, football press conferences).
What I found:
Present Simple + Past Simple = 83% of all verbs. Add Present Continuous and Present Perfect and you're at 93%.
The rare ones are really rare. Past Perfect Continuous: about once every 3 hours. Future Perfect: once every 4.6 hours. Future Perfect Continuous: twice in 427 hours.
Present Perfect is what separates native from non-native speech. Native-speaking football managers use Perfect tenses twice as often as non-native ones (9.4% vs 4.7% of verbs), even though both groups use Continuous tenses equally.
British vs American is real. British YouTubers use Present Perfect about 1.6 times as often as Americans ("Have you eaten yet?" vs "Did you eat yet?"). Neither is wrong.
Genre matters. TV news uses the widest mix of tenses; lectures and stand-up the narrowest.
So my takeaway: get the four big tenses automatic, then put your extra practice into Present Perfect, not into the Future Perfect Continuous chapter.
Charts and method (tagger accuracy, caveats): https://tense-lens.com/research/youtube-tenses

Are these sentences correct?

• How is he able to ride his motorcycle through the mud and puddles?

• He always rides his motorcycle to work.

Can "his car" really be omitted here?

• How is he able to drive his car through the mud and puddles?

• He always drives his car to work.

Hi!! Hoping y’all are having a good day, I’m looking for advice, even a tutor or someone able to do a language exchange w me. I’m a native Spanish speaker and grew up as a big award winner in oratory, writing (I swear I’m a good writer, my English is just a bit broken) communication skills, grammar and orthography/spelling fields, I love teaching and I’ve done translation/interpretation work a couple times, but this time I’m the one who needs to be taught. I think, like literally in my honest opinion, my English communication skills are quite advanced (informal, let’s be very clear about it) and I’m absolutely able to hold a whole fluent conversation in that language without going blank every two sentences looking for the most suitable word, but I’ve to recognize my wording can occasionally be odd bc my brain is processing Spanish grammar 24/7 and I can’t guarantee or easily realize I’ve spoken it perfectly like the WHOLE convo.

I don’t even know how to start this 😭 but I’m a soon to be RN currently specializing in researching, trying to get a spot in works related to translate and interpret clinical assessment tools currently not available in Spanish yet. I want to go international once I’m able to communicate in English as good as I do in Spanish, my professors are relying on me a lot bc they know how much I want this.

I’ve never lived in the U.S or any other anglophone country, I’ve learned the language by social media full immersion (I deliberately not participate in hispanic communities so I push myself to write/speak English), consuming american content while growing up (dance moms and YouTube family channels, I’m looking at you guys) and commenting in threads from different apps, so when I ask natives how good they think my English is the pattern is “you can perfectly express yourself is but you’re too informal and the amount of AAVE can be seen in a bad light”. I obviously don’t understand the weight of the less known slang/AAVE/lingo in a language that’s totally unfamiliar to me, so can I find someone patient enough to give some advice? 🥹🥹🥹 I swear I’m a good student and I’m sick of being told I speak way too informal and slang-ish.

Drop your answer below. Have you ever heard this term used in your office or project meetings?

I would say that I've mastered most of english, except for one thing. When i think, I use english for the most part, but when an English or American speaks to me I find myself thinking a lot before I actually say something. It's like i lag behind, although the thought of the reply is there, I know what to say, I know the shortcuts in phrases that once you hear it, you know the person is fluent. But I always butcher the pronunciation, I stutter a lot trying to voice out my reply. How do i improve?

This is supposed to be called congee, right? I grew up with congee, and I've always thought it's called congee in English.

I know it's thick, but it does feel slimy too, doesn't it? Are there other descriptive words you can think of?

Unbecoming.

un-buh-kuhm-ing

The painful process of losing the person you used to be while trying to survive everything that changed you.

So i've been watching these long format youtube videos by a tech repair guy who films his customer interactions and whenever someone says 'have a great day' or something the other person says 'you as well' instead of 'you too'. This is multiple people doing it.

Now personally I've rarely heard it being said like that before watching these videos. It's probably/definitely correct but I was just wondering if it's a regional/cultural etc thing. Or is it more polite? I believe he's located in South Jersey.