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.
5 ~+ \2 T; Y, P2 e2 A- Z. f; d' F    My girlfriend did not live with me, because he is still in China.
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  }# {+ q7 j+ ~* M  T# k3 I- dThe 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.
3. Please close your phone.
$ s/ g9 z5 X* `- [& q; l1 b' eThese 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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0 d1 w% _4 `( ?. h: X4. 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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5. I am a Chinese.
I am a Chinese person, or I am Chinese.
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He is gay.
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7. Why? No why.
Not no why, no reason.
" ?+ f3 M5 N( G! b1 M8. Thanks! No thanks!

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