Come to Find Out - Colloquial American English Phrasal Verb
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Hey!
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How's it going?
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What's up?
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Welcome to Go Natural English.
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Let's get fluent.
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I have a phrase to share with you today that
is super common.
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Native English speakers use it all the time
and it's probably super confusing for a lot
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of English learners.
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The phrase is "Come to find out".
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"Come to find out" -- what does that even
mean?
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"Come", "Find", "Out"?
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Huh?
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So, I want to talk a little bit about what
this means.
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"Come to find out" means that you're a little
surprised --you didn't expect to know some
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information or to be told some information.
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So, "Come to find out" is something that you
want to share like a turn of events.
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So, for example, "I was planning to go to
the beach tomorrow -- come to find out, it's
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supposed to rain.
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I can't believe it.
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I'm not going to the beach if it's raining."
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Alright?
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So, that's just a quick tip to show you a
phrase that's really common, but not taught
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in textbooks.
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It's common in conversation though.
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So, if you want to learn more about natural
English, come to gonaturalenglish.com and
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grab a free eBook that I'd like to give to
you as a gift with no strings attached.
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Hope to see you there.
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Bye for now.
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