Name: English Grammar Test: Advanced English Lesson
Uploaded: 2019-08-11T13:27:17.000Z
Duration: 11 min 47 s
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I'm Vanessa from SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com.

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Are you ready to test your grammar skills?

In this lesson you'll learn seven common English grammar mistakes and how to fix them, but

the trick is, you have to guess what the mistake is.

I'm going to show you seven sentences, and you need to find one change in each sentence.

Maybe that's taking something out, maybe that's adding something, maybe it's exchanging something.

There's one mistake here, can you guess what it is?

What do we need to change to make this beautifully correct?

So are you ready for some more advanced grammar sentences?

Let's imagine that we're in a coffee shop together drinking some coffee.

Well maybe that's not such a good idea because, if I had a cup of coffee, I would be running

I'm drinking some tea, you're drinking some coffee, and we're having a lovely conversation

And you say to me, "So how's it been going lately?"

And I say, sentence number one, "I bought the new Ferrari yesterday."

What's one thing that you can change in this sentence to make it correct?

There's something that's wrong with this sentence.

You have this image in your head of us sitting in the coffee shop, do you think that we're

It's not something specific, it's something unknown, so we need to use 'a.'

Maybe after we have our drinks, we go out to the parking lot, and I say, "This is the

We're looking at it, we know which one it is, it's right there.

So we need to use 'the' to talk about something known and 'a' for something that's less known.

Test sentence number two: I wanted a Ferrari because it's too fast.

I wanted a Ferrari because it's too fast.

I wanted a Ferrari because it's really fast.

We only use 'too' in negative situations.

Maybe I could have said, "My old car was too slow."

You can see here that, in all of these situations, there's something negative.

The coffee's too hot, I'm too tired, the car is too slow.

There's a problem in all of these sentences, so I probably want to fix it.

And in the sentence with the Ferrari, I think that the Ferrari is really fast, so that's

If you're curious about some differences between 'too' and 'so,' I made a live lesson about

this a long time ago, about two years ago, and you can watch that video up here.

Sentence number three: when I bought the car, it costs $300,000.

When I bought the car, it costs $300,000.

What is one thing that you can do, to change in this sentence, to make it correct?

When I bought the car ... notice this is the past tense ... bought the car, it costs?

The word 'cost' is an irregular verb and often these irregular verbs trip up or trick English

So we need to make sure that we use the proper past tense.

Maybe after I told you how much the car cost, you say, "Oh Vanessa.

And I say, "Well I think I'm going eating rice and beans for a whole year.

I think I'm going eating rice and beans for a whole year."

This means nothing fancy, nothing special, only rice and beans because I spent all my

"I think I'm going to eat rice and beans for a whole year."

Often English learners have problems with '-ing' and 'to.'

It depends on a lot of different factors, but specifically for the verb going, when

Well we need to use 'to' plus an unconjugated verb.

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English Grammar Test: Advanced English Lesson

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