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.
$ B5 W' B" ?' p    My girlfriend did not live with me, because he is still in China.

5 \2 l7 H! M3 B7 }7 D- j2 N7 oThe 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.
  J; R9 z( r; z! Q7 v9 B9 [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?
The correct way to ask the question is like this: how do you say... in English?

3 a, m% U" d) J+ ]2 i6 h3 ]5. I am a Chinese.
1 _/ K: Q% \' @# H' i) n9 e( vI am a Chinese person, or I am Chinese.
6. He is a gay.
1 H' }- _7 @- J  d) n1 W# xHe is gay.

7. Why? No why.
Not no why, no reason.
8. Thanks! No thanks!
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