Minor but significant mistakes you may have made in speaking English

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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.
    My girlfriend did not live with me, because he is still in China.

+ {7 t  ?* Q6 P! uThe 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.
3. Please close your phone.
4 P+ P. v. m$ }8 s% d2 a7 GThese 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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0 ^+ B5 P! k/ i2 [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?
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. f1 ~6 w- [; ^( B; _0 N5. I am a Chinese.
) X7 ]. {" r% }9 e( BI am a Chinese person, or I am Chinese.
" P+ O/ g' r; Y& K2 `! f$ g6. He is a gay.
0 ]3 `. n: T% a% \6 F0 I$ H' [0 oHe is gay.
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! D2 u% T) {& _# w; A7 J! [6 B7. Why? No why.
Not no why, no reason.
  d5 H0 }9 d  T" s! l8. Thanks! No thanks!
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