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Another great video, Greg! I am a native speaker and a retired teacher and these are some of my pet hates as well. The one that gets me most is people who say "different to" instead of "different from" and coming a close second is using the wrong participle especially when talking about phonecalls. I've heard even fellow teachers say e.g. "My mother told me that you had RANG last night" and a very common one "He was SAT at his desk" If you haven't made a video that refers to these, would you consider a "Mistakes made by native speakers 2"?
Your lessons are highly appreciated Greg! 🙏 I've heard many times Brits do all these mistakes and always assumed it was kind of local slang or something. As for me, I found only one mistake I do from this list of yours, it's when I use "less" whereas I should use "fewer" instead 🤝
Greg, I have extremely enjoyed this video, which gave me the impulse to visit several others of yours, and after that observation, I can say, without fear of being excessive, that yours is outstanding. After more than half a century of studying your language, practicing it, working with it, reading countless books, living in New York for a long time, visiting your country on several occasions and I still feel helpless when interacting with ordinary people, particularly due to the linking of words when speaking that unsettles the active neuron that I am left with. But if the opportunity that life gives me is to have that same interaction with cultured people, ah! such a situation of helplessness becomes an incomparable enjoyment.
Greg Thank you so much for the tips. I'm not native but I love English laguage and I'm always trying to learn it better. I usually teach my friends about some of these mistakes, but they don't seem to believe me that much because I'm not native (You know it's easier to believe that a native speaker always knows more about his own language)! But now I have found someone who is native saying the same things I say. That's Awesome!!!
Your videos are really great!! I discovered them very recently, and I like a bunch your way of "teaching". It's always amazing, so lively, never boring. Yet all the topics you discuss about are essential for us to gain confidence to speak! And you also bring us the joy that you always show us. Bravo! 👏🏻🤩
Hi JPdynabook! Thanks for commenting! Sure thing... in fact, I don't think i've used music since this lesson, as it was a bit distracting for speakers of English as a foreign language. Thanks for the feedback, though! Much appreciated 👍🏼
Thank, God I'm not alone. I was already starting to think that "should of..." was correct. But deep down I knew that was a mistake repeated so many times, that people took it as normal. Things like that get on my nerves. Lol Thanks, Greg.
I love this video! I teach ESL and often incorporate your videos. (Thank you.) However, I think I will send this one to a few family members. The could've, would've, should've mistakes irritate me to no end, and some of the others you speak of here do the same. (I'm a grammar nerd too. LOL) How about "can" vs. "may?," and the the double negatives.... YIKES!
You could make it "10 Common Mistakes" and add "their" to the list. I often see native English speakers using "there" when they should be using "their".
@@EnglishWithGreg What makes it worse is that it's so easy to remember: 'there' = 't' + 'here', 'they're' is a contraction and 'their' is what's left. 🤷♂ "They're putting their things over there."
FINALLY i understand the joke in the Chris Tucker and Jackie Chans movie, Rush Hour. Where Jackie is trying to sing the “War-Song” of Edwin Starr and he still mades the wrong “Your” pronunciation! THANK YOU! 😂
Possessive "its" is not an exception. It follows the rule: No apostrophe on possessive pronouns. Yours, not your's. Theirs, not their's. His, not hi's. Its, not it's.
You have missed English (U.K.) native speakers who are incapable of conjugating the verb "to be". When I was teaching I had problems where a number of L2 students acquired this habit outside the classroom. Unfortunately when a student repeatedly butchers an E1 level marker in an E3 S&L exam you have little room for manoeuvre.
The thing is, languages evolve over time. What's technically a mistake today will probably be 'correct' or 'the norm' in 50 or 100 years time. They'll listen to us and think how weird we sounded
Maybe the grammatically correct reply to "How are you doing" is "I'm doing well" but to me it doesn't sound right; my reply would be "I'm well thanks". Don't get me started about "he dove into the pool"!
A trick that helps me with the “ I vs Me” mistake is to replace them with “we/us” . If “we” sounds better then it is “I” and if “us” sounds better then it is “me”. Examples: This is for you and me = this is for us. You and I are going to the party = we are going to the party, etc
Well, we all make mistakes in our own language...writing correctly can be hard sometimes even for native speaker. My mother tongue is German and there are many traps in this language. Of course some mistakes are completlely stupit ...
Absolutely. Anyway, I hope the fact that native speakers have problems with English grammar will comfort ESL students who think that they need 'perfect' grammar to be able to speak confidently. 😀
oh, gosh, I did use 'or less' too bloody often... it just sounds bout rite or say it. dunno if I've ever made this mistake in front of my students, lol, tbh, I tend to have a brain fart while having a long day teaching
Except music I had to hear while I was watching this video, I found the topic great! I'm always irritated by mistakes made by French people! And there are many mistakes even some made by people who should professionnally speak a good French! Foreign learners are often better at French than French people (but if they follow some stupid series or pseudo-teachers who claim being good teachers). 220818
Hi, Greg. Your explanation is fantastic, but this music sucks (SORRY). It is not boring, but it doesn't fit during your speeches. thank you one more time.
Haha, yep, you're not the first person to mention it, so I've stopped using background music now (I think this video was possibly the last one I used music for). Thanks for your feedback and I'm glad you liked the explanation 😀
You're welcome, Luiz!! Thanks for commenting!! Please share the video with your friends if you think it will be useful for them!! And keep watching / subscribe 😀 Speak soon!
Hope you enjoyed this video!! If you want to become more fluent in English...
1. Try a class with one of OLA's native English teachers 👉🏼 www.onlinelanguageacademy.com/try.htm
2. Fix your Broken English with my FREE book 👉🏼 www.OnlineLanguageAcademy.com/book.htm
The musical accompaniment of the video is very distracting.
thanks a lot
So happy that you, too, are holding the line on LESS and FEWER. It seems no one is using FEWER any more; mistakes abound in print and video.
Another great video, Greg! I am a native speaker and a retired teacher and these are some of my pet hates as well. The one that gets me most is people who say "different to" instead of "different from" and coming a close second is using the wrong participle especially when talking about phonecalls. I've heard even fellow teachers say e.g. "My mother told me that you had RANG last night" and a very common one "He was SAT at his desk" If you haven't made a video that refers to these, would you consider a "Mistakes made by native speakers 2"?
Your lessons are highly appreciated Greg! 🙏
I've heard many times Brits do all these mistakes and always assumed it was kind of local slang or something. As for me, I found only one mistake I do from this list of yours, it's when I use "less" whereas I should use "fewer" instead 🤝
I love how you managed to make the difference between a subject and an object pronoun so simple 😀
Thanks a lot for this comment, Mid :-) Please share the video with your friends if you think it will be useful for them too!! 😀 Speak soon!
Thank very much for giving us marvilous videos to improve our English. All the best for you
Greg, I have extremely enjoyed this video, which gave me the impulse to visit several others of yours, and after that observation, I can say, without fear of being excessive, that yours is outstanding. After more than half a century of studying your language, practicing it, working with it, reading countless books, living in New York for a long time, visiting your country on several occasions and I still feel helpless when interacting with ordinary people, particularly due to the linking of words when speaking that unsettles the active neuron that I am left with. But if the opportunity that life gives me is to have that same interaction with cultured people, ah! such a situation of helplessness becomes an incomparable enjoyment.
You are A fantastic teacher
And lovely dark blue eyes
Thanks Mila! Please share the channel with your friends if you think they will benefit from my lessons 😀 Speak soon!
Greg Thank you so much for the tips. I'm not native but I love English laguage and I'm always trying to learn it better. I usually teach my friends about some of these mistakes, but they don't seem to believe me that much because I'm not native (You know it's easier to believe that a native speaker always knows more about his own language)! But now I have found someone who is native saying the same things I say. That's Awesome!!!
Hopefully they will believe you now, Abner 😂 Thanks for commenting and please share the video with your friends! More video lessons coming soon!
Your videos are really great!! I discovered them very recently, and I like a bunch your way of "teaching".
It's always amazing, so lively, never boring. Yet all the topics you discuss about are essential for us to gain confidence to speak!
And you also bring us the joy that you always show us. Bravo! 👏🏻🤩
Muy interesantes sus clases! Gracias! Un saludo.
Thanks for the great lesson, Greg. Do you mind if I ask you to turn down the volume of the music?
Hi JPdynabook! Thanks for commenting! Sure thing... in fact, I don't think i've used music since this lesson, as it was a bit distracting for speakers of English as a foreign language. Thanks for the feedback, though! Much appreciated 👍🏼
Testing multitask skills is not a good idea while studying English.
2) What is the difference between your vs yours ?
3) ..... my vs mine ?
GREG I do love your way of explaining and your accent hope you talk about idioms and British expressions ,love from Morocco ♥
Just discovered this video. My pet peeve of late: infamous when you mean famous. This native speaker from the southern US loves your videos!
Thank, God I'm not alone. I was already starting to think that "should of..." was correct.
But deep down I knew that was a mistake repeated so many times, that people took it as normal.
Things like that get on my nerves. Lol
Thanks, Greg.
You're not alone, Leonardo! Every time I read "should of..." it makes me feel sick 😷
Thank you very much!
You can also add whose and who's to the list. Who's is a contraction of who is and whose is possessive.
Example about "pronunciation" it's brilliant!!!😉
I love this video! I teach ESL and often incorporate your videos. (Thank you.) However, I think I will send this one to a few family members. The could've, would've, should've mistakes irritate me to no end, and some of the others you speak of here do the same. (I'm a grammar nerd too. LOL) How about "can" vs. "may?," and the the double negatives.... YIKES!
So many people now say things like "have went", "had drove" or "has took"...
Thanks.
Very useful, thanks
Hi. I can't believe that native English speakers make these silly mistakes.
I'm not an advanced learner but i find these mistakes pretty easy .
Same here!👍🏻😅
thanks a lot, Sir Greg
Thank you for a very interesting film. Would it be possible to make music a bit quieter?
That's awesome 👏😎👍💯 keep up the great work 😅😅😅😅😅😅
Thank you for the video. It was useful. Btw you remind me of the actor Nicolas Сage
You could make it "10 Common Mistakes" and add "their" to the list.
I often see native English speakers using "there" when they should be using "their".
You're so right!! *Their, there and they're* .... Sure, confusing for ESL students, but for native speakers? 😖No excuses!
@@EnglishWithGreg What makes it worse is that it's so easy to remember: 'there' = 't' + 'here', 'they're' is a contraction and 'their' is what's left. 🤷♂
"They're putting their things over there."
FINALLY i understand the joke in the Chris Tucker and Jackie Chans movie, Rush Hour. Where Jackie is trying to sing the “War-Song” of Edwin Starr and he still mades the wrong “Your” pronunciation! THANK YOU! 😂
Thank you
Thaaaaaaanks!
Very useful. Cheers
Your explanation is very nice 👍
You're eyes are just amazing ❤
Hi Mr Greg. So the expression '' I feel good '' or the James Brown's sing it's would be '' I feel well '' correct?
Possessive "its" is not an exception. It follows the rule: No apostrophe on possessive pronouns. Yours, not your's. Theirs, not their's. His, not hi's. Its, not it's.
How amazing you are!
You have missed English (U.K.) native speakers who are incapable of conjugating the verb "to be". When I was teaching I had problems where a number of L2 students acquired this habit outside the classroom. Unfortunately when a student repeatedly butchers an E1 level marker in an E3 S&L exam you have little room for manoeuvre.
Great
Drive the left lane or drive on the left lane?
I must admit that I always get "fewer/less" wrong. It's just today -for the first time- that I've come to think of it. Shame on me!
You're not alone, Nurserycryme 😄
The thing is, languages evolve over time. What's technically a mistake today will probably be 'correct' or 'the norm' in 50 or 100 years time. They'll listen to us and think how weird we sounded
Lo mismo pasa en español
Maybe the grammatically correct reply to "How are you doing" is "I'm doing well" but to me it doesn't sound right; my reply would be "I'm well thanks".
Don't get me started about "he dove into the pool"!
A trick that helps me with the “ I vs Me” mistake is to replace them with “we/us” . If “we” sounds better then it is “I” and if “us” sounds better then it is “me”. Examples: This is for you and me = this is for us. You and I are going to the party = we are going to the party, etc
You should have included the use of 'there's' or 'here's' before pluralized nouns. 'There's books on the table'. 'Here's some books'.
Yes!!!! That’s a brilliant one 👏🏼👏🏼
How about its’ ?
Hi, Greg. I'm very happy for watching your videos. Could you, please tell me the real meaning for "oh. my words"? Thank you.
"Oh my word!" is the same as "Oh my god!" ... just without the blasphemy 😄
Dear teacher the music is so loud...plz do something
So here I am trying to fix up my English in order to learn another language!
You are 🌷
Well, we all make mistakes in our own language...writing correctly can be hard sometimes even for native speaker. My mother tongue is German and there are many traps in this language. Of course some mistakes are completlely stupit ...
Absolutely. Anyway, I hope the fact that native speakers have problems with English grammar will comfort ESL students who think that they need 'perfect' grammar to be able to speak confidently. 😀
Did you say Wednessay ??
oh, gosh, I did use 'or less' too bloody often... it just sounds bout rite or say it. dunno if I've ever made this mistake in front of my students, lol, tbh, I tend to have a brain fart while having a long day teaching
Except music I had to hear while I was watching this video, I found the topic great!
I'm always irritated by mistakes made by French people! And there are many mistakes even some made by people who should professionnally speak a good French! Foreign learners are often better at French than French people (but if they follow some stupid series or pseudo-teachers who claim being good teachers).
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There, they're, their...
Did you actually say "Wetnessday"?
Hi, Greg. Your explanation is fantastic, but this music sucks (SORRY). It is not boring, but it doesn't fit during your speeches. thank you one more time.
Haha, yep, you're not the first person to mention it, so I've stopped using background music now (I think this video was possibly the last one I used music for). Thanks for your feedback and I'm glad you liked the explanation 😀
sir which is right "Gregs' phone or Greg's phone"?
'Greg's' because it's possessive
Music is too loud for me in this video
your video was nice but the music was too loud😉
Yes. It’s also about 4 years old and I never add music these days. 👍🏼 But thanks for the feedback! 😀
my favorite bit of cringe from native speakers: chester drawers....um, wut? Its Chest of Drawers!
anyone want to go listen to Weird Al's Word Crimes after this vid?
the music is louder than your voice
Do you see anything wrong with this sentence? " Why we wasting our time we these people? "
Yep! 1. You haven't included the verb 'to be'. 2. *with* instead of *we*
It should be: Why ARE we wasting our time WITH these people? "
Maybe the question here is more to do with pronunciation and listening (elision and linking).
Surprise to know that you people also make mistakes while speaking
Threat video but the music makes it impossible to focus on what you’re telling, sorry
music is terribleeeee.
😂
music is so distracting
thanks a lot, Sir Greg
thanks a bunch, Sir Greg
You're welcome, Luiz!! Thanks for commenting!! Please share the video with your friends if you think it will be useful for them!! And keep watching / subscribe 😀 Speak soon!