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.

5 p2 W5 V1 R0 q! T7 x2 R' ~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.
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.
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4. How to say: heavy rain, light rain, and turn off your phone in English?
8 K$ U& t8 U+ t+ G/ _. N' \+ x) wThe correct way to ask the question is like this: how do you say... in English?

5. I am a Chinese.
! i5 F  b+ x2 W: R: QI am a Chinese person, or I am Chinese.
+ @2 s1 g( c2 h- R) }' R6 I* z: d6. He is a gay.
He is gay.

0 L$ {  K% Q6 h, R4 D  O7. Why? No why.
Not no why, no reason.
; S3 u1 P8 \8 m7 b8. Thanks! No thanks!