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.

) 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.
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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.


4. 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.
4 {- _6 t; S& lI am a Chinese person, or I am Chinese.
6. He is a gay.
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. ^" W& ]8 i8 U0 e- s4 T7. Why? No why.
Not no why, no reason.
, B8 i' V  O& O8. Thanks! No thanks!

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