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.
7 l( H2 I" Z+ p  k5 ~    My girlfriend did not live with me, because he is still in China.
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5 ~* U; ^$ D0 m( h$ B' G; xThe reason to make this mistake is not due to grammar knowledge. One reason might be she and he have the same pronunciation in Chinese.

" \* G! v( T# p' U2. I do not like big rain, I like small rain.
7 {% c2 W, K* ^, p" f3. Please close your phone.
& V" ]' q- ?) SThese 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?
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5. I am a Chinese.
I am a Chinese person, or I am Chinese.
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+ c9 m9 n8 ^% k. c  s) @He is gay.

7. Why? No why.
Not no why, no reason.
8. Thanks! No thanks!
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