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.
0 p- D4 m. N4 s- v2 j% R: C" E" u    My girlfriend did not live with me, because he is still in China.

+ z7 _: F/ @" I" h5 i( QThe 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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# K! v* A: I* H1 L2. I do not like big rain, I like small rain.
3. Please close your phone.
7 q: u" Z' Z2 A/ Z( vThese 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?
* W& Y; W% z  I5 K4 x; w! U2 b) `The correct way to ask the question is like this: how do you say... in English?
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5. I am a Chinese.
$ y9 ]9 R& l" |- N! B. E8 sI am a Chinese person, or I am Chinese.
) O0 o+ R1 `! b3 ^" t& A' Q! k+ v( J* Z4 @6. He is a gay.
He is gay.
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/ K/ E$ a7 B% V. Q' C. W9 R6 d) L7. Why? No why.
Not no why, no reason.
" X( @$ M# C5 \5 ]$ h8. Thanks! No thanks!

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