AEE 2434: Vocabulary to Help With Your English Grind

In this All Ears English podcast episode, Michelle and Aubrey address a listener's question about the word "grind," exploring its various meanings, grammatical nuances, and common usage in American English. They discuss "grind" as crushing into small particles (like coffee beans), gratingly rubbing together (like teeth), and doing hard, dull work, also differentiating between "grind," "ground," and "grounds." The hosts provide examples, and clarify when it's appropriate to use "grinded" versus "ground" as the past tense, and they also touch on how native speakers often avoid using the past tense altogether by using workarounds. They further explore "grounds" as coffee particles, land surrounding a building, or reasons for a belief or action. The episode includes a roleplay to illustrate the different uses of "grind" and "grounds" in everyday conversation, and they preview a follow-up episode on the idiom "stay grounded."