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.

8 x, o/ }! ^1 W1 b1 H1. 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.

5 P1 P! g" q" wThe 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.
1 b; i" k9 z' I; B4 g  @1 Q3. Please close your phone.
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?
6 l0 a. U1 E+ C2 e2 RThe correct way to ask the question is like this: how do you say... in English?

5. I am a Chinese.
I am a Chinese person, or I am Chinese.
5 F1 u' n# U$ r7 O  R/ a6. He is a gay.
4 C% ^( h' E; u; c' y) d9 f- FHe is gay.

# I' d! H( k: z0 T( r2 `7. Why? No why.
Not no why, no reason.
8. Thanks! No thanks!

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