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Minor but significant mistakes you may have made in speaking English

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发表于 2017-9-20 18:12 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
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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.
6 r/ c4 c1 Z/ T- Z6 s& q9 m! s  Q    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.: k# [0 @$ m4 a$ w0 b8 n

; s* x6 Z: l+ o2. I do not like big rain, I like small rain.3 n  G7 x3 V5 z8 J5 O
3. Please close your phone.
/ G8 u' ~: ^. E* r7 NThese 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.+ i7 R/ t4 [' M' G7 j9 c1 ?/ q. a$ x; p

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  w# B0 D( h% i4 K5 V  C4. How to say: heavy rain, light rain, and turn off your phone in English?$ p0 d6 L" Y( A- p) ~
The correct way to ask the question is like this: how do you say... in English?7 A  ]  ^* r- X  i1 i3 j6 r$ ^
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5. I am a Chinese.
8 Y1 p5 s: @1 {# D- p2 rI am a Chinese person, or I am Chinese.
! J2 G% D" ?2 n/ [6. He is a gay.% X* j- C' X2 b* B0 _  o4 t3 r
He is gay.   _, o0 t- S- s1 d& p/ _! i& }
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7. Why? No why.   s2 m% ]4 K4 l% r9 F
Not no why, no reason.
. Y6 z) E# T7 U% g' `3 ]8. Thanks! No thanks!# ^) }$ h( ~% |" B! j
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