How to use “Be about to” – English Grammar

When you plan to stay with your friend at 6,

and now they are 3 quarters of 6 and that’s you:

Completely asleep, and then your friend calls you,

and he says to you: we’re here five minutes, right?

And you’re still in bed,

what can you answer? Obviously you will answer this:

If! He was just leaving home.

I’m about to do something,

this is very easy

What means? That you will do something, but right now!

I will do it, but now.

The verb “be”, “about to” never changes,

“do” is infinitive, so the verb you use always remains the same.

So “Yes, I’m just out of the house,” it’s like saying:

Yes, I have my hands in my hands and I’m about to leave my house.

It’s lying, I know,

but we all do that, right? Or just me

That was in the present. How about the Past Tense?

Well, we all have found ourselves in this situation.

When you and your best friend have that special connection

And you call your friend and you say: Hey, I am! And she is like: Siiii!

Just before calling me I was about to call you,

Just before you call.

So, how can you say it in the past?

I was about to do something, just before you called me.

“I”

You can add the word “just”

I was just about to

The verb is infinitive: Call. Just before calling. It does not vary

Is that simple enough right? You will do something, right now, right now.

You can not say things like these:

You can not say for example: I’m about to do something in five minutes.

Because? Grammatically it is correct, however,

yes, five minutes is a short time in the future,

But when we say “about to”, we mean now, right now.

5 minutes is too far in the future, it is no longer right now

Therefore,

“be about to” and “a farther time than NOW” … it can not be said.

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Hey Do you know the various ways we can pronounce this?

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