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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4 Y/ x* ~) `5 Z4 E, e7 ?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.
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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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9 h. e' X8 @  T4. How to say: heavy rain, light rain, and turn off your phone in English?
- }8 w% k2 g& B% m+ ?4 V3 _) tThe correct way to ask the question is like this: how do you say... in English?
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, o+ w) d, o: X! _- l5. I am a Chinese.
" ]7 V9 k# H# S& v+ W' C! }! A2 CI am a Chinese person, or I am Chinese.
  a& o* E, [. S8 ]! j4 `6. He is a gay.
/ H, }; @) V' O: @  `4 qHe is gay.

7. Why? No why.
/ N5 B, u+ n  `2 H; ONot no why, no reason.
8. Thanks! No thanks!
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