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  • unknowingly, we start making a lot of grammatical mistakes when we speak in English on this lesson is absolutely for all of us who want to speak absolutely correctly when we make ah, when we when we speak in English on, do not wish to make those errors.

  • Hi, everyone.

  • My name, Mr Dunn.

  • And in today's lesson, we will talk about common grammatical mistakes and how to correct those mistakes.

  • Let's get way.

  • First mistake that we have the list is John has been absent from Friday Friday.

  • If you see here is one of the days of the week, Andi is a specified time.

  • It is not a duration on.

  • People actually say from Friday, which is the wrong word here.

  • Instead, we should say, since Friday, Why?

  • Because since is used for specific time.

  • What is it useful?

  • It is used for specifications time.

  • Let's have a look at the next mistake.

  • Divide it between the Children in class will divide something.

  • It's not divide.

  • It's got to do something with with another important word.

  • And that is divided among the Children in class.

  • But venous primarily used when there's we have discussed it before.

  • In one of the previous videos as well.

  • When there is, let's say something here and something here, two boxes and there's something in the middle of them.

  • This is between this ball is between the two boxes here.

  • But we do not say between the Children, we say among the Children when you have to distribute something, it is not between people, it is among people.

  • So this problem has got to do with vocabulary.

  • So make sure the next time when you distribute something not between people but among people.

  • Let us now have a look at the next mistake.

  • People say I didn't meet nobody.

  • Well, if you say nobody, it would be wrong in the sentence.

  • The correct version is I didn't meet anybody.

  • Do you know why?

  • Because nobody is not used with the sentence, which already has not in it, a sentence that is already negative.

  • It is.

  • I did not meet anybody, so if in a sentence there's already a negative component, you do not add nobody to it because it is.

  • It's gonna be the second negative.

  • You always see I didn't meet anybody at the party.

  • The good actor version, the next mistake that people make is open Page 45 off your book.

  • How many of you are teachers there Now?

  • Teachers get to use the sentence quite a lot.

  • And a lot of bosses as well In in the meeting room, people say open Page 45 off your book, doesn't we?

  • Don't speak like that.

  • We say open your books to page 45.

  • The word order is the problem in the sentence.

  • What is it?

  • We call it a word order.

  • So how do we mention that we say open your your your book to page 45.

  • So open your book is the first thing that you say to Page 45 is the second thing that you add to this information.

  • This was the fourth mistake.

  • The next mistake is she's married with a pilot.

  • This is a wrong word that you that you use here this conjunction.

  • This is not the right conjunction.

  • It is not with it is to let's see she's married to a pilot.

  • Whenever you use the word burb marry you do not marry with you Marry two married to the pilot.

  • The next one is the house is enough spacious for me.

  • It is similar to one of the problems that we suggested that we spoke about before It is.

  • The house is spacious enough for me.

  • Not this.

  • The house is enough.

  • Spacious.

  • Whenever we use a quantify it such as enough, we actually use it.

  • After the adjective, which is spacious, spacious, comes first on Dhe.

  • Enough comes later said This is the 1st 1 This is the 2nd 1 and that is why we see not enough.

  • Good.

  • We say good enough.

  • Bad enough.

  • Great enough, et cetera, et cetera.

  • Let's look at the next mistake.

  • The next mistake is every student Like the teacher.

  • Every student means each and every one.

  • We're talking about one student individually, on the whole, on the whole, it looks like we're talking about everyone together.

  • Yes, we are.

  • But we're keeping individuality in the context.

  • On dso it changes to every student likes the teacher.

  • We add s to it on dhe.

  • We do not keep it just like this.

  • Why?

  • Because we're talking about one student out of time with one student.

  • We always put s Why?

  • Because it is the subject verb agreement.

  • If it is singular the next to Bob has got to be clue tal on dhe vice a versa.

  • The next one is I have visited London last week.

  • One of the classiest mistakes that people make when they speak in English.

  • The correct version is I visited London last week, last week or last weekend.

  • Do you know why?

  • Biggest we do not specify a time we have.

  • If you're telling, uh what you did at a specific time you never use have with it because have is something that you do imagine this is this is a past this is present on This is future.

  • Have is something that you did recently in past.

  • For example, I have eaten I have eaten the lunch.

  • I have eaten the lunch.

  • I just I just ate it before making this video.

  • So that is have eaten the lunch.

  • And I'm not saying two hours ago I have eaten the lunch at three o'clock.

  • No, I have just eating the lunch.

  • So when you want us, they have either remove last week or C just visited remove half, for example.

  • I visited London last week or I have visited London.

  • That's how we use this example.

  • Let us now move to the next example.

  • He was boring in the class.

  • Now we're talking about the person who actually was feeling bored When you say bore ring when your eye.

  • Angie, you're actually making that adjective belong to that person you're specifying.

  • You're telling the personality off that person.

  • You're not talking about how that person was feeling anymore.

  • You're talking about the personality of that person.

  • It changes to.

  • He was bored in the class.

  • Now this is the emotion, the feeling that he was going through.

  • Not that this is that person.

  • So when you say he was boring in the class, you actually mean that that person was a boring personality, not an interest, Interesting personality.

  • The class was, however boring, and he was feeling board in the class.

  • The next mistake is the woman which works here is from France.

  • It's got to do with it's got to do with this.

  • What is this word here?

  • Can you guess?

  • It is called a relative clause.

  • We have different types of relative clauses, which what?

  • When these words actually specify the clothes that you're talking about, and if you're talking about a person of woman we do not use rich.

  • We either use that all we use who so it changes to the woman who works here is from France or the woman that works here is from France.

  • Both are right.

  • Both are correct.

  • Please to make sure that you do not use the wrong Klaus.

  • When you talk about a person, it is either which or that this was about this mistake.

  • Let's move to the next one.

  • George swim on Saturday.

  • It has got to do with the 1st 2nd and third form off of Herb The sec the first the base form off.

  • This word is swim.

  • The second form of this word is swam on the third form off.

  • This word is swam.

  • Swim swam, swam on.

  • Dhe this were changes to George swam on Saturday.

  • Since we're talking about past swim Dhe, it is swam.

  • Next mistake is could you send me these informations?

  • Well, if you see the word here informations.

  • Can you guess What is the problem?

  • Can you count one information to information?

  • No information is uncountable it It is an uncountable Now you can't count information.

  • It is right there.

  • You can definitely say a piece off information so it changes to.

  • Could you send me that information, please?

  • So it is uncountable can't be counted.

  • The next mistake that people have is there's no place in the whole.

  • There's no place it's got to do with the vocabulary off the sentence it changes to.

  • There's no room in the hole with room.

  • I mean the space that I'm talking that we're talking about.

  • For example, let's say if I want to say there's no, there's no place to sit in the studio.

  • It is not that there's no room to sit in the studio way.

  • We use our words carefully.

  • The next one is she does not know nothing about this matter.

  • Can you see?

  • Does not.

  • There is a negative word already and we're saying nothing.

  • Nothing is a negative would.

  • So in that case, we change it to anything.

  • If you remember the first example that we spoke about, it changes to anything.

  • She doesn't know anything about this matter.

  • Not she doesn't know nothing about this matter.

  • She doesn't know anything about this matter.

  • The negative part here is way have got to make the other part, so it is not No, it is anything.

  • This was all about all the mistakes that people make everyday English.

  • Please do make sure that you're not one of those people who make silly errors.

  • Thank you very much for being with me on this lesson.

  • Lots of love and have a great day.

unknowingly, we start making a lot of grammatical mistakes when we speak in English on this lesson is absolutely for all of us who want to speak absolutely correctly when we make ah, when we when we speak in English on, do not wish to make those errors.

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