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

, ?) A9 O) Q) X, p: S2. I do not like big rain, I like small rain.
3. Please close your phone.
8 r6 Q7 T: e5 z4 k1 c2 Q$ [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.


4. How to say: heavy rain, light rain, and turn off your phone in English?
1 p3 Y4 w; r2 SThe correct way to ask the question is like this: how do you say... in English?
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5. I am a Chinese.
  l/ o8 t/ R' }' ?# w) L( \I am a Chinese person, or I am Chinese.
6. He is a gay.
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7. Why? No why.
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# A) w4 I$ O, K! a0 G, `8. Thanks! No thanks!