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.
: j5 v- E3 l0 w+ M4 ?    My girlfriend did not live with me, because he is still in China.
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0 E: s3 j8 \: {) p2 B4 |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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/ ?9 Z0 j, [; U2. I do not like big rain, I like small rain.
$ `. ^7 s/ R  n; T) t4 r3. Please close your phone.
$ z4 D* [2 m) L* e8 t8 mThese 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?
, J( u9 h  b. {+ }4 F2 p2 \The correct way to ask the question is like this: how do you say... in English?

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I am a Chinese person, or I am Chinese.
  |4 M+ @# W2 p6. He is a gay.
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7. Why? No why.
Not no why, no reason.
8. Thanks! No thanks!
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