Name: Learn the English Phrases "bound and determined" and "to be bound to"
Uploaded: 2025-03-09T21:01:20.000Z
Duration: 4 min 5 s
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Past simple

In this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase bound and determined.

To-infinitive

When you are bound and determined to do something.

Present continuous

It means you are serious about doing it, it means that you are committed to doing it.

The best example I could come up with today, even though I don't like to be political is to say that President Trump is bound and determined to put tariffs on Mexico and China and Canada.

He's, I'm pretty sure today he's going to do it.

You're watching this on Wednesday, so you'll know the results.

But he seems bound and determined, he seems committed to doing it.

The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is to be bound to.

This means that you are most likely going to do something.

If you're walking on ice, you're bound to fall.

Um, if you're not good at walking at ice, if it's something you've never done before, uh, you're bound to fall.

Um, if I go into a Tim Martin's restaurant, I'm bound to buy a cookie.

Uh, that means I'm most likely going to buy a cookie.

When you are bound and determined, it means you have decided you're going to do something and you are not going to change your mind, you are bound and determined to do it.

And if you're bound to do something, it just means you are likely to do it.

Most Tuesdays I'm bound to make a lesson.

I usually go out and I do one, sometimes I do two.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.

And the comment is, let me get this open.

"Although it is quite windy, the weather does not look too bad, Bob, even the sun is out to play.

Enjoy it while it lasts. Thanks again for making all your regular videos for us this week.

It would have been easier and less stressful for you to just skip some of them, and that would have been completely understandable.

So thank you for that, Bob, you know it is much appreciated. Have a great day."

And then my response using today's phrase, I'm still bound and determined to only skip lessons if I'm sick, so far so good.

And yes, I'm not sure if you were aware of my, I guess you might be able to call it a New Year's resolution.

But I did make a decision, um, at the beginning of this year, 2025, that I am going to try and stick to putting out the same number of lessons every week on both channels.

When I looked at 2024, I realized that there were many weeks where I just took a week off.

Sometimes it was maybe because I was sick or because I was busy.

So this year I decided, you know, I'm not going to do that, I'm going to at the very least put out the same number of videos every week.

That might mean that a short lesson comes out on a Saturday or maybe even a Sunday some weeks, that might mean that my Wednesdays with Bob, uh, members only video on my other channel might come out on a Thursday.

But yeah, I'm bound and determined to do that for a couple of reasons.

One, when I looked at my stats from last year, when I looked at my views and everything from 2024, I realized that, it's probably disappointing when a video doesn't come out.

And it also made me realize you don't actually care what day the video comes out.

If I put a video out on a Saturday, one that normally comes out on a Friday, just as many people watch it.

So I thought, you know what, there's seven days in a week, and if I'm running a little bit behind, maybe I'll just do some things a little later than I normally do.

So, I'm pretty sure from the comments you guys don't mind.

Sometimes you seem a little surprised when I put a lesson out in the middle of the afternoon on a Saturday, but hey, surprise is good, isn't it?

Anyways, have a good day, I'll see you in a few days with another short English lesson.