AEE 2459: Grammar That Breaks the Rules Part 3: Hardly Fair or Fairly Hard?

All Ears English Podcast

Lindsay McMahon

Education, Language Learning, Business

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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0:00.0	This is an All-Ears English podcast episode 2459, grammar that breaks the rules part three.
0:07.6	Hardly fair or fairly hard.
0:12.1	Welcome to the All-Ears English podcast downloaded more than 200 million times.
0:18.8	Are you feeling stuck with your English?
0:28.4	We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing on connection, not perfection, with your American host, Aubrey Carter, the IELTS Whiz, and Lindsay McMahon, the English
0:35.4	adventurer, coming to you from Arizona and Colorado, USA.
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1:01.2	It's easy to assume that the words fair and fairly mean the same thing, but are simply different parts of
1:08.2	speech. But think again. Listen in to get the truth today.
1:18.2	Are you still translating from your native language into English in your head? Are you always
1:24.3	getting confused between the different grammar tenses? Let's figure out what you need to work on.
1:30.0	Find your current English level with our five-minute quiz at all-earsenglish.com slash fluency score.
1:42.1	Hey there, Aubrey. How's it going today? I'm great. How are you, Lindsay? Good. Aubrey,
1:46.8	what is something that you've done recently that you expected to be fairly hard? And then it turned
1:52.6	out to be fairly easy. Ooh, or vice versa. Yeah, or vice versa. I played this new game called
1:58.7	board ball. I had never heard of it before. It's sort of a
2:01.8	volleyball game where there's kind of a flat square board. I think it's pretty new. And you're
2:06.2	playing volleyball with a part. It's just four people. Sort of like spike ball, but volleyball. And you
2:10.6	kind of hit the volleyball agent. And I expected it to be fairly easy. I play volleyball, but it was
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