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.
6 ~, q9 Q! n2 F! x    My girlfriend did not live with me, because he is still in China.

7 W" A  I: ~% _4 i; AThe 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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7 v+ ^1 c! I. T4 w# @) ~+ c2. I do not like big rain, I like small rain.
3. Please close your phone.
& w; {* ?+ D( D3 H0 g" V3 }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?
The correct way to ask the question is like this: how do you say... in English?

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( Z$ s' w0 @5 n2 Q0 u+ B  @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.
! M. g# q7 m5 u3 s3 RNot no why, no reason.
8. Thanks! No thanks!
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