"will be very soon" or "will very soon be"

[joao.cfaria]

Heys guys,

Can you please help me to find the correct way to express an idea like this one?

"they will be very soon an active member" or "they will very soon be an active member".

Thank you!

[Systematiker]

They’re both correct, with different nuance. I’d say the first emphasizes the speed of the change, the second emphasizes the change in status.

[Cainntear]

Heys guys,

Can you please help me to find the correct way to express an idea like this one?

"they will be very soon an active member" or "they will very soon be an active member".

Thank you!

The first one sounds quite unnatural to me, and the sort of thing someone whose first language is a Romance language would say.

What's happening here:
In Romance languages, adverbs tend to be straight after the verb and before the object, which why they're called adverbs. In English, our adverbs tend to be at the end of sentence and modify the whole sentence. This gives us another option "they will be an active member very soon".
However, we have a special case in English: adverbs of time and frequency go between the two verbs (they will soon be) or before the verb if there is only one (I always eat breakfast before work) (unless the verb is "be", which it comes after -- I am always late).

If this isn't clear, let me know and I'll write something longer to explain. But for now, I'm heading to the office.

[Dylan95]

Personally I would say "they will be an active member very soon." This is the only variant that doesn't sound awkward to me.