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.
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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.

2. I do not like big rain, I like small rain.
1 g/ c# |! u* j* N3. Please close your phone.
. b. T% n' a, C1 d# Y$ l+ Q2 }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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; I1 e1 q4 S2 z4. How to say: heavy rain, light rain, and turn off your phone in English?
8 J$ {: S; P+ u# _The correct way to ask the question is like this: how do you say... in English?

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I am a Chinese person, or I am Chinese.
6. He is a gay.
He is gay.

7. Why? No why.
Not no why, no reason.
8. Thanks! No thanks!

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