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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2 ]- H7 Y' z  C" f! UThe 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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2. I do not like big rain, I like small rain.
3. Please close your phone.
6 ]! p4 v, g, v' \, rThese 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.


5 k; w5 Z5 t( r2 G5 @6 j; o( e  V4. 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?

5. I am a Chinese.
' V" y  q% R+ x$ mI am a Chinese person, or I am Chinese.
6. He is a gay.
He is gay.

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Not no why, no reason.
$ Y6 `/ l2 b9 u1 N) `- e. M6 D* c8. Thanks! No thanks!
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