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.

- k+ |0 O# |- L0 b9 V1. 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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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.

2. I do not like big rain, I like small rain.
3. Please close your phone.
/ U" w# g( ~% F) TThese 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?
The correct way to ask the question is like this: how do you say... in English?
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% k, y4 J/ C0 M8 q% p5. I am a Chinese.
2 f6 @2 C% N' TI am a Chinese person, or I am Chinese.
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He is gay.
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7. Why? No why.
Not no why, no reason.
  ~* @6 N+ d2 `/ b0 }8. Thanks! No thanks!
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