Minor but significant mistakes you may have made in speaking English

billzhao

Some friends, especially those who are just learning English, often make the following mistakes.
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1. My husband has a good job. She makes over 100,000 dollars a year.
    My girlfriend did not live with me, because he is still in China.
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4 r; x4 m5 }/ G$ FThe reason to make this mistake is not due to grammar knowledge. One reason might be she and he have the same pronunciation in Chinese.
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2. I do not like big rain, I like small rain.
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1 d+ O6 q6 q" @1 cThese mistakes are made because of direct translation. Another similar mistake is: I very like Canada. You really like Canada, or you like Canada very much.
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4. How to say: heavy rain, light rain, and turn off your phone in English?
The correct way to ask the question is like this: how do you say... in English?

" F2 L8 E- y" ^: k5. I am a Chinese.
; Q) U# l. S, x# N+ L, A! B, Z9 JI am a Chinese person, or I am Chinese.
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/ g; _( {) @6 G" xHe is gay.
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9 Y) R8 f3 ?1 e0 N4 D7. Why? No why.
Not no why, no reason.
8. Thanks! No thanks!
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