Name: Learn 9 Ways that Native English Speakers Break the Rules!
Uploaded: 2020-06-08T05:00:10.000Z
Duration: 10 min 30 s
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In this English lesson I'm going to teach you some

To-infinitive

of the rules that you're sort of allowed to break

Well hey, welcome to this English lesson where I'm going

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Well as you learn English, you learn a lot of rules

and when you listen to native English speakers

you realize that sometimes we break the rules.

So in this video I'll go over nine different rules

that we regularly break when we're speaking English.

Even though I'm going to teach you about rules

that native English speakers break regularly,

you yourself as an English learner should not break

and you should know how native English speakers break them,

but you should not start breaking these rules yet.

that you will hear native English speakers break quite often

especially children, involves the words, me and I.

You will sometimes hear kids say things like,

"Me and my friends went to the movies last week."

but English speakers do say things like that.

"My friends and I went to the movies the other week."

"Me and my colleagues went out for lunch last week."

I should say, "My colleagues and I went out for lunch

and say things like, "Me and my brother ate all the cookies."

You should say, "My brother and I ate all the cookies."

The second example I want to share with you,

Oftentimes in my classroom students will say,

We use the word, can, to talk about our ability

to do something, not to ask for permission.

my students rarely say, "May I go to the bathroom?"

When they ask to leave the room to use the washroom

or the bathroom they most often break the rule

and they say, "Can I go to the bathroom?"

Which if you think about it is kind of a funny way

because all of us have the ability to go to the bathroom.

We just don't always have permission to leave the classroom

So the third example I wanted to talk to you about

is a mistake that often native English speakers make

They take phrases like could've, would've, should've

and they write, could of, would of, and should of,

you will hear that it actually sounds like, "of".

if I had chosen them all correct I could've won the lottery."

So I'm not saying, "could of", I'm saying, "could've",

like an email, or if they are sending a text,

There's just a lot of geese that are for some reason,

So I know this camera angle is a little too bright for me,

but I wanted you to be able to see how beautiful it is

when we have snow on the ground and the sun is shining.

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