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.

1. My husband has a good job. She makes over 100,000 dollars a year.
$ G9 o+ a6 p3 S% o    My girlfriend did not live with me, because he is still in China.

  J' {% B, H, Z) g8 O4 d; z0 mThe reason to make this mistake is not due to grammar knowledge. One reason might be she and he have the same pronunciation in Chinese.

2. I do not like big rain, I like small rain.
! A. ^3 d5 f" W( P% z0 Y6 A3. Please close your phone.
. N+ ?! G: h+ [These 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?
7 t* b  E& s8 y" {The correct way to ask the question is like this: how do you say... in English?
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5. I am a Chinese.
I am a Chinese person, or I am Chinese.
6. He is a gay.
He is gay.
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7. Why? No why.
Not no why, no reason.
8. Thanks! No thanks!