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.

1. My husband has a good job. She makes over 100,000 dollars a year.
+ V% s0 }* i: P" x7 _    My girlfriend did not live with me, because he is still in China.
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8 d( {! C8 k0 K/ v7 p, w2 IThe 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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+ s( D- R# W: `2. I do not like big rain, I like small rain.
$ A  C( x4 s; d2 `$ ~3. 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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& y8 G( L, T/ ~8 J$ g$ g; n6 |! R4. How to say: heavy rain, light rain, and turn off your phone in English?
6 B; Z" o9 b4 i# `# MThe 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.
/ T4 d6 {# ^2 }5 J" O0 W6. He is a gay.
He is gay.

7. Why? No why.
5 y  G6 u; p# `2 vNot no why, no reason.
8. Thanks! No thanks!