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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1 W- @8 {7 D3 j$ a# Z% _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.

7 B, \/ z  y' y, R. f2. I do not like big rain, I like small rain.
3. Please close your phone.
* a$ b% f. V* e* Q! Z+ rThese 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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+ A  N; `' X9 a. m0 S6 _) j7 P; a4 z4. 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?

5. I am a Chinese.
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4 Z7 G+ J& b( k" [* [5 n( E- _6. He is a gay.
4 S2 ]6 Q( }5 O9 ?' zHe is gay.
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( y/ a) A- m. B# V5 ]9 q2 ]7. Why? No why.
Not no why, no reason.
8. Thanks! No thanks!

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