Fix Your English Grammar Mistakes: Talking about People
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 มิ.ย. 2016
- Should you say "most of people" or "most people"? "Brazilian people" or "Brazilians"? "Every people" or "everybody"? If you're not 100% sure, this lesson is for you. In this lesson you'll learn how to talk about people correctly in English. This is an important subject because, in conversation, we often talk about things people do. I'll teach you the grammar behind common sentences and statements. You'll learn to use these sentence structures correctly and to avoid mistakes that many English learners make. Then take the quiz here:
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TRANSCRIPT
Hello. My name is Emma, and in today's video, I am going to teach you about some mistakes a lot of students make. So, I've been teaching English for about five years now, and the mistakes I'm going to teach you today, I've seen students make many times in both their speaking, as well as their writing. Okay? So these mistakes are mistakes students make when they're talking about people. So, I'm going to give you some examples of some of these mistakes.
The first one I want to show you: "Some Canadian people hate winter." It's true, I'm one of those people; I hate winter. So, "Some Canadian people hate winter." There's a mistake, here. I want you to take a moment to look, and think: What could the mistake be? "Some Canadian people hate winter." I'll give you a hint: The mistake is somewhere here. If you thought "people" is the mistake, you're correct. "Canadian people", it's redundant. We don't need the word "people", because "Canadian"... If we add an "s" here, this means "Canadian people". Okay? So, instead of saying "Canadian people", we would say "Canadians". "Some Canadians hate winter." It's the same if we wanted to talk about Americans. We would not say: "Some American people hate winter." We would prefer to say: "Some Americans"-with an "s"-"hate winter".
So, let's look at another example. "Many Brazilian people are learning English." So, there's a mistake, here. What's the mistake? "Many Brazilian people are learning English." If you said the mistake was "people", you're correct. When we're talking about nationalities, we do not use the word "people". So, what can we do to fix this? We can get rid of the word "people", and what can we do to the word "Brazilian", because there's more than one? We can add an "s". So, now it's: "Many Brazilians are learning English." Okay?
So, I'm going to give you another example, this time not on the board, but I'm just going to say it. "Many Asian people like spicy food.", "Many Asian people like spicy food." Now, how would you fix this sentence? If you said: "Many Asians like spicy food." you'd be correct. So, when we talk about nationalities, we do not need this word; this word is a waste of space. We just need the nationality with an "s".
So, I have another common mistake students make over here: "Muslim people". So, Muslim is a religion. Okay? "Muslim people fast"-"fast" means they don't eat-"during Ramadan". "Muslim people fast during Ramadan." It means Muslim people do not eat during their holy month, their religious month of Ramadan. So, there's a mistake, here. What do you think the mistake is? If you said, just like this, "people" is the mistake - you're correct. When we talk about religion and we're talking about Muslims, Christians, Jews, Hindus - you don't need the word "people". We could just change this to: "Muslims". So, "Muslim" here means a whole... All Muslims, it's like Muslim people, but we don't need the word "people".
Here's another example: "Christian people celebrate Easter.", "Christian people celebrate Easter." How can we fix this sentence? We can get rid of the word "people", and just add an "s". We can do the same thing for Hindus. "Hindus are often vegetarian", we could say. "Many Jews live in Israel.", "Many Buddhists live in Asia." Okay? So, instead of saying: "Jewish people", "Hindu people", it's easier just to say "Hindu" with an "s" or "Jews" with an "s". All right, so let's look at some other common mistakes students make.
Okay, so another mistake I often see students make in their writing especially, and also sometimes in their speaking is with "most", "some", and "a lot" when they're using these words with "people". Okay? So, the first example: "Most of people have cell phones these days." I see students use: "Most of people" a lot in their essays. So, what's the mistake, here? I'll give you a minute to think about it. "Most of people". The problem here is "of". Okay? We don't need "of"; "of" is incorrect here. We would just say: "Most people". "Most people have cell phones these days." Okay? "Most people love Chinese food.", "Most people like to play sports." You don't need "of". If you had: "Most of the people", that would be okay, but you need "the" here, although that's not as common.
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In my new video, I talk about the 10 most common English grammar mistakes with PREPOSITIONS-words like IN, AT, ON, WITH, and more. Let me know what you think! th-cam.com/video/NTrvUvlPdXM/w-d-xo.html
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Thank you so much .Here is your new student subscriber Hi😊This lesson help me alot and I used to struggle with using Most so I used it in wrong way such as most of them actually it wasn't true .I gonna watch your videos this month take a note and studying by myself .I sure your teaching method will give me motivated to keep learning.
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@@elanaanil1996 what does "I can relate" mean?
Did you mean "I can relate to that"??
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Mark Radford z
Mark Radford she’s “teaching” english grammar and then says “expecially”. 🤦♀️ no such word. The word is especially. There is no X
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i love Canadian accent
she never says
"if you say... Then you're wrong." she would always say the right one straight away. I love her lessons
Me too
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This whole video is wrong.
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Thank you. Through out my highschool year I was illiterate. My parents are not from this country. I’ve notice my friends correct my English and laugh. Can’t be like this anymore. I shall master the art of literature
Thank you very much mam for this lesson. I learned something new in english in this topic. This is a great video. Very clear.
But canadian is adjective and we do not add letter s to the adjective
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Same.
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I like the repetitive examples, help us remember the error. Love this!
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Hi Emma, your English grammar lessons are very good even for those whose English is their first language. Thank you for teaching us how to communicate with others properly.
Really! So you start a sentence with an adverb then ?
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Funfact: you need to learn English to understand this video
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I can understand, so I know English?
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I love the way she teaches, and I love her, she´s beautiful and a good teacher.. shame I am not Canadian..
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This is amazing!!! Thank you for teaching us to get better in english😊
I really like this lesson. It comes very clear and easy to remember. Thank you!
I like these lessons very much, just the items you need in conversation!
this new topic to talk about people is extremely spotless because of the expression of the teacher words. Thank you so much I had learnt a lot from this.
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MISS ammy...💗
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I learn something very valuable about English grammar whenever I watch each of your videos. Your presentation is really very amazing. Teaching method is very mesmerising. Your pronunciation and intonation are very attractive. It often seems to me that you're one of us.
The teaching of Miss Emma is clear and it gives me much improvement in english grammar. I thank her.
Your doing such a wonderful job by teaching these lessons freely for non native speakers. Thanks a lot.
*You’re
*such a
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thanks, for this lesson. I didn’t know I’ve been saying these words for years now.. now I know.
I am happy and happy when I listen to your classes to a teacher I hope if I find a way to use you to improve my english language
I love how I can relate to her teachings.
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Thank you so much teacher Emma for this class and teaching us English language and also please do it more...
Truly speaking, this gives me a helpful to fix my mistakes in English grammar. I hope to stay up with you for improving English grammar.
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You are awesome teacher; I love your teaching style very much. Thank you indeed and long live for you!!
Thank you Emma! Very useful!!! Please do more videos like that!
I understand your English explains give us more grammer like this thank you for the videos teacher
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God bless you and more inspiration
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Thank you mam. I'm improving to make correct sentence for you. I am learning English by watching your videos. Take love from Bangladesh. ❤
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You’re*
Thank you so much for these tutorials. I appreciate it. This is awesome.
Your sentences are very good in your comment but because your three (3) sentences are rather short, they appear to be choppy. What if your sentence appeared as that below:
"Thank you so much for your awesome tutorials; They were greatly appreciated."
Aldo my favoritos teacher. Thanks you teacher, thanks to your smart way to learn It is good to learn another language.
Thank you so much for the Tutorial i really learned on how to speak english with right Grammar
Great! I've commited a lot of these mistakes, but now I understand perfectly what the mistakes are. Thank you very much, I hope to watch many more videos like this one with common mistakes soon.
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My best teacher I ever had in my life
Raised by a 30 year retired English teacher. People tend to forget 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person speech. Love it.
Despite being Indonesian, my first language was actually English due to that the first program i literally binge-watched on was flippin' Disney Junior
I never knew, Ms.Emma, was giving free video lessons! Well done,ma'am.
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No contradictions
What a good thing for those who are learning from these .Thank you.
Thank you, Emma. I love you for your teaching method. You are a very excellent person. I did many times that sorts of mistakes, but now I improved myself from the previous position. I do like your videos because your teaching method is easier than our difficult education system. I am from Bangladesh. I wish I could learn English from you directly then I could be very benefited and would improve myself from the present situation. Have this kind of opportunity here?
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Yes
Great teaching. I am able to understand your teaching very easily. I wish you were my English teacher when I was at school. Because the way you teach is great . I can easily correct my mistakes in grammer by watching your video's. Thank you for all your free lessons.keep going.
I watched this video over and over again; it is so informative.
Thank you for sharing this!😍
I really love the way she teaches, love from India 😊
Thonk you emma.. for your dedication to teach people with your video. God bless you and your family and colleagues.
Her voice is very clear and the way she talks is very understandable. I don't think other's can compete against her :D
Perfect style ... Thank u😍
Good job
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Lovely
Very nice method of teaching
@Jems Lopez
Thank you 🌹
Are you somali
Wes
Thank you Emma. I often make these mistakes. Now only I know these are mistakes!
Thank you so much for your service helping us to study correct English grammar.
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Can i say some of them
Yes. Many brazillians are learning english :)
vc e br
+10 FATOS ! Yes, my friend.
haha it's so true my friend we'll control the world hahahaha
Brazil not an english country ? oh wow !
HAHAHA brazilians everywhere!
teacher emma your inglish class is that so good lesons by our continuos learning, alwys it´s very important learn grammar mistakes to avoid when I to write and when I to talk all time.
I loved this class!! Thanks Emma!
Its 1am and here I am watching this. I learn better on youtube than school
Thanks
Hello Emma
You're such a perfect English teacher !!!
I do appreciate your lessons mainly your pronunciation and your method to find such an important examples in a simple way which makes people understand well and quickly ...
Am also a teacher ...
"An Algerian Maths Teacher"
THIS IS BS !!! JUS BECAUSE THINGS DONT SOUND GOOD MEAN THAT THEY DONT UNDERSTAND EVEN IF THEY DONT !!! ISNT WHY ANYWAY !!
Thank you for your video. It helped me a lot in improving my english grammar and correcting my mistakes
Something new I have learned
Thank you
I need your help
Everybody likes your video because the way u teach is awesome .
all people want to be fameous . Without doing hardwork.
Everybody can speak english. If they work really towards in english.
many indian like your video.
ashuj kushwaha i beg you learn something new :)
ashuj kushwaha i beg you learn something new :)
ashuj kushwaha R.I.P English dude . What the hell is fameous 😂😂
u as you is no grammar
Hardwork and faemous are not words
Oh my gosh!!!! I'd rather you just talked about This kinda lesson coz it is Uber helpful I've been learning English yet i don't have this grammar oh my gosh!!!
We appreciate your services Teacher Emma
Amazing, this teacher is a treasure.
could we have a full course of IELTS grammar in your channel?☹💜
You teach us by giving simple understandable examples, thanks.
Thank you Emma your teaching is just simple and enjoyable
Thanks for your lesson. Thakns so much.
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You're a good English teacher and i also can say good English trainer on TH-cam,so you're really deserve praise 🙏 🙏
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Thank you very much.
Very helpful video
Do you have an online 1of 1 or live sessions courses that we can take??
You are perfect! Great video thank you!!! I am a brasillian that is learning english.
Thanks, Emma. Specially the "fast" explanation part. I am brazilian, by the way.
Omg this so nice!!! Thanks a lot!!!!!
From Iraq thank you very much ma’am
God bless Canada♥️
This is a great lesson, we learned all this in Grammar and High School! What are the schools teaching? Or, are the students too pre-occupied with social media and picking up bad writing skills?? This is not College stuff, it's basic High School English. Thankyou Emma for bringing this to light! Happy to see you teaching this online, and based on the comments to this video and your other videos, they are well received! I graduated High School 57 years ago and still picked up a few tips from you! Thank you very much, I subscribed!
Thank you for your hard work. I noticed that I have done some of the mistakes which you mention.
Great video!
I've written five books and am sensitive to grammar. Today, too many college graduates can't write a decent sentence. The most common errors are the use of words like, "to", "too" and "two", "there", "their" and "they're" and more like these. Another common error is the lack of punctuation such as no period at the end of a sentence, no comma where there should be one and the lack of capital letters.
I had to learn English when I was six. My native language is French. I'm also a high school dropout. I have 18 patents, most of which I've written myself. It's my belief that this generation has less interest in proper English than my generation. I'm 72. Maybe this is how languages evolve, one generation usurps the existing language to replace it with errors that then become accepted over time.
I hope it's not just a stupid generation taking over the world!
ivanhoe chaput
The current devolution in Grammatical correctness is unlike anything that could've brought us to what we've achieved. There's a culture sickness Worldwide that I'd attribute to the cult of personality, for one.
I am really impressed to read your value comment, Owing to your huge prestige linguistic skills, I would request you to please be my teacher and teach me English.
This would be one effort GOD would be happy.
Best Regards and take care.
Kudos grandpa
@@gr8ofnetwork289 lmao
Alam Zeb which God?!
I'm 21, and I feel so bad that I just now learned about the word /every person/ is actually grammatically correct
Thanks ma'am. These corrections are required.Your spoken language is very effective.
! thank youu :)When she said the first one was pretty clear but when she said the second one i got the idea of it
Thank you for your lesson... I have learnt a lot of things from this lesson
u also made same mistake, just write "i learned a lot from this lesson"
:)
MS Sadik I think the correct way to say it was: I have learned a lot from this lesson. because you are using the present perfect tense
hese are alternative forms of the past tense and past participle of the verb learn. Both are acceptable, but learned is often used in both British English and American English, while learnt is much more common in British English than in American English.
MS Sadik haha
I want to review celpip
Exam where ?