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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.1 Z/ d3 \# I5 `9 j: y" v$ }9 ]
    My girlfriend did not live with me, because he is still in China.' u" W8 @, E  Q/ e. n- s

) T+ [; g9 Z; y7 }1 PThe 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.
0 E/ K% D- Z0 H: H. F: Z3. Please close your phone." c  Q: L" e/ c/ K% b& m. s
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.$ ?2 @  q2 j1 E2 ^
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4. How to say: heavy rain, light rain, and turn off your phone in English?- [% ?* U! }( b# p
The correct way to ask the question is like this: how do you say... in English?3 h) v  o. e& _7 @' y
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5. I am a Chinese.
4 {- _6 t; S& lI am a Chinese person, or I am Chinese. % N3 {5 H* [1 s0 R' `! k4 a% K
6. He is a gay.
4 h4 K; B1 H7 `He is gay.
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. ^" W& ]8 i8 U0 e- s4 T7. Why? No why. ) J) b4 {2 w- e; X3 l  h
Not no why, no reason.
, B8 i' V  O& O8. Thanks! No thanks!# T2 e1 F# {( d6 S$ F

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