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Minor but significant mistakes you may have made in speaking English

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发表于 2017-9-20 18:12 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
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.5 o0 H. }0 x! U- A! l7 a4 v
    My girlfriend did not live with me, because he is still in China.& p7 @0 d  Z: J4 q5 ^4 {- C
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The reason to make this mistake is not due to grammar knowledge. One reason might be she and he have the same pronunciation in Chinese., x+ `% [6 B  u6 W5 E9 U9 _

3 A- A% M" c0 M6 X$ v' s7 j2. I do not like big rain, I like small rain.3 u3 u7 q4 G0 ^8 }9 v5 b
3. Please close your phone.
; Z- h4 b' q5 ^# Y5 b- P$ S/ w2 VThese 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.8 _$ Q& k, _" J2 o" y/ j  {
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4. How to say: heavy rain, light rain, and turn off your phone in English?6 a$ i6 H" x$ ]9 t+ L% ~* O
The correct way to ask the question is like this: how do you say... in English?6 t2 B3 t# L- j& K  }
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5. I am a Chinese.& T& E1 j2 _' p# ]
I am a Chinese person, or I am Chinese.
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He is gay.
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7. Why? No why.
8 _3 [* n1 e1 m3 t) qNot no why, no reason.
- ]7 |$ P4 D$ I3 T) k! H6 u7 H: ~6 \8. Thanks! No thanks!
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