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.
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" i* R; G/ ]8 m: `8 K6 ]2. I do not like big rain, I like small rain.
3. Please close your phone.
$ i6 m  T4 h" |. WThese 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?
. {3 q% x( s0 [8 e6 \The correct way to ask the question is like this: how do you say... in English?

; v! a0 `) U! `8 ^; K5. I am a Chinese.
! f, r) j# Q: w  e& U. hI am a Chinese person, or I am Chinese.
5 Q  U7 `5 {# O+ M  |/ A4 k/ a6. He is a gay.
He is gay.

7. Why? No why.
. H& P$ ]! P( ~! a1 @Not no why, no reason.
/ [( }! {- a* e5 Q0 e8. Thanks! No thanks!
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