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.

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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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.
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1 O5 C% W6 `2 k. _' O6 YThese 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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% T* z% @# a7 t$ x4. 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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2 ]. d. H# U9 c" a5 h# f9 _7 ~4 h5. I am a Chinese.
% m( ]& U" y8 |2 mI am a Chinese person, or I am Chinese.
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& |6 u: v" @1 J1 A3 ?He is gay.
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0 m; E8 e# B2 A9 q9 i9 R; p7. Why? No why.
, V9 S6 h( F/ V/ i1 C& D2 h$ mNot no why, no reason.
/ `- c: t! b7 I7 M# P! T8. Thanks! No thanks!
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