if you're an ESL student chances are
you've heard hey you know in English
well today we turn the tables and today
you get to say that to native speakers
who should know better the first one is
this one I met a boy when someone tells
you something that you're not interested
in for example they meet a new boy and
you respond with this damage anat I
could care less you actually don't care
but by saying you could care less
let me visualize this for you if this is
your level of caring and you say I could
care less you're implying that there is
still possibility for you to care less
so in other words you still care but you
want to say the opposite right so don't
be a dummy say I couldn't care less
English students this is very very
common among native speakers so again if
you'll need to speaker friends so this
one tell them they're stupid and they
need to learn English super common one
is FX and FX aspect that's a verb and it
talks about how something can change
your condition remember a verb is a
doing word not a noun which is a thing
the noun is this effect the result of
something for example if you eat old
chicken what would be effect the
consequence the results be it would
probably the effect would probably be
very bad diarrhea so we could say in a
sentence fun fact the effect of eating
old chicken is diarrhea but perhaps this
guy has an iron tummy and he can say
eating bad chicken doesn't affect me
effect that's a noun
ethics that's a verb it's disgusting I
know but hopefully now you'll remember
this one is so common you might see it
in a supermarket
other level of harassment really so what
is the difference well fewer we use this
for things that you can count less is
for things that you cannot count for
example you wouldn't say he has fewer
money money is the thing that you can't
count one money to money
you can't count money but you can count
friends
so in example sentence I have fewer
friends and less money than you another
common mistake you'll see time and time
again is farther and further used in the
wrong places let me give you an example
in this situation he wants to say let's
discuss this more which word means more
trick question both of them do but in
different ways let me show you he will
say let's discuss this further further
means more you do something more she can
reply I have nothing more to say it's
still not farther it's still further so
the easy way to remember it is to do
something more further how about father
if the last time you saw your friends
you are quite skinny but then after a
while you got quite fat your friend
might ask what happened so in this case
the gym is more far than McDonald's but
we don't say more far we say father so
basically yes they both mean more but
further means you do something more and
father is talking about the comparison
of distance the gym is farther from my
house than McDonald's
so what wins this one is maybe the most
common mistake and if you don't use it
correctly then it means you don't speak
good well good that's an adjective we
use it to describe nouns for example if
stupid idiot or a comfortable shoe but
well that's an adverb think of it like
an adjective but to describe verbs to
describe how you do something
so to clarify good is an adjective so
they have a very good brain I mean the
grammars fine sure
but no matter how good I do on something
they'll never write good I mean they
don't right there that's not okay
right is a verb and so we need an adverb
he wants to say they don't write well
dummy so the next time one of your
native speaking friends makes one of
these mistakes when are you going to
tell them hey dummy you learn English
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