0203 Daily Easy English Expression PODCAST—may be OR maybe

Daily Easy English Expression Podcast

Shane Peterson

Language Learning, Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2014

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Today’s expression and dialog: may be OR maybe I hope you’re not busy next May, Bea. You may be pregnant. May be pregnant? Maybe. How??? Please subscribe on iTunes and get this podcast EVERY DAY! Support Coach Shane by giving $1 a month! Our sponsors: (Join PIRF—Coach Shane’s Speaking Class!) (Get 8 FREE DDM lessons!) (Get a free AUDIO BOOK!) (Join DDM and get 1 lesson every week!) Our YouTube channel:

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, my name is Coach Shane and welcome to easy English expressions.
0:11.0	You and me every day, come on, let's master English.
0:26.3	Hello everybody.
0:29.8	Welcome back to Daily Easy English Expression.
0:33.5	Thank you so much for downloading my podcast.
0:35.2	This is number 203.
0:43.1	And it's two words. Actually,'s three words, that are very confusing for people.
0:46.3	Maybe or maybe.
0:47.8	What?
0:58.7	You know, may be, M-A-Y, space, B, E, may-B-E, may-be, and maybe, M-A-Y-B-E as one word.
0:59.5	Ah, yes.
1:02.1	When do we say may-be?
1:04.2	When do we say maybe?
1:06.6	Now, this can be confusing. When you see the two words separately may be two distinct words it's the same thing as might be
1:17.3	Shane might be American I'm not sure Shane may be American I'm not sure Shane may be American I'm sure. When you're not sure about something, you can say might be, and you can also say may be. And if we say it fast, Shane may be American, I'm not sure.
1:45.2	So when do we say maybe as one word?
1:48.8	I'll be there maybe tomorrow.
1:52.8	I'll be there possibly tomorrow.
1:57.6	I'm not exactly sure, but I think possibly I will be there tomorrow.
2:04.0	I will be there possibly tomorrow.
2:07.4	Maybe tomorrow.
2:08.9	So maybe as one word is an adverb.
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