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.

' x- b2 {3 B; a9 I' u, K2. I do not like big rain, I like small rain.
3. Please close your phone.
$ o" K1 R: |# O  p0 O7 }) CThese 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?
7 ]/ D, H! @: o8 N* EThe 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.
6. He is a gay.
He is gay.

$ v6 U, g9 ~2 c! n! p  C, o* i# B7. Why? No why.
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# H  `* E6 g7 Z& V5 v8. Thanks! No thanks!
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