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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, M+ d- R( ?* j) f8 eThe reason to make this mistake is not due to grammar knowledge. One reason might be she and he have the same pronunciation in Chinese.

2. I do not like big rain, I like small rain.
3. Please close your phone.
# g& S5 u4 `9 w, F; T: FThese 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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) x. Z* ^* u7 [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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  d3 W7 {- ?1 b6 Z4 a8 v: ~' f5. I am a Chinese.
2 _: q1 v- H; V* w% |7 zI am a Chinese person, or I am Chinese.
6. He is a gay.
He is gay.
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4 v* M6 ?+ s; u* K" T2 G( k9 d7. Why? No why.
! r9 x7 y2 \& e9 D; V$ g- w3 hNot no why, no reason.
8. Thanks! No thanks!
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