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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
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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.% n+ P4 u9 G: K9 S1 Z/ w4 c
    My girlfriend did not live with me, because he is still in China.
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5 n- R' S% d! P/ @7 @& nThe 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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/ F) ^# C+ u5 P) C6 @( U. a/ RThese 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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3 @7 e8 r% e( G/ f, U. m" X" T4. How to say: heavy rain, light rain, and turn off your phone in English?* o' r9 F) A5 F# t7 b
The correct way to ask the question is like this: how do you say... in English?  l4 Q1 i8 _8 L2 Q) V: W

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I am a Chinese person, or I am Chinese.
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He is gay.   l2 w2 V' B# j3 F* ]  s# d; Q& M. J
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7. Why? No why. 3 A7 m$ u( ]" X. F- `* ^: Y9 c9 L
Not no why, no reason.
/ P6 Y& Q' S' V2 _0 E9 e8. Thanks! No thanks!
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