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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.
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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.
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2. I do not like big rain, I like small rain.; m" e" ^" n: l% W
3. Please close your phone.2 U/ }7 M" n: T
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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7 p7 T1 K0 u( g. L4. How to say: heavy rain, light rain, and turn off your phone in English?" S0 j' m" H$ D
The correct way to ask the question is like this: how do you say... in English?
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& N6 R, z& ?% I; t5 P" w: n5. I am a Chinese.) j6 G8 @- u: l
I am a Chinese person, or I am Chinese.
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7. Why? No why. 6 u- W6 x" r; J1 t
Not no why, no reason.
5 Q- t4 l# ?8 ?; }8. Thanks! No thanks!
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