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to become a successful speaker you must
develop all seven of the essential
English fluency habits one of these
habits is the ability to use correct
grammar automatically so you eliminate
embarrassing and dangerous errors from
your speech so in this video we're going
to look at this week in bad grammar the
first one is something that's very
commonly misused all the day or all the
week because we do have an expression in
English all the time so if we're talking
about time in general people will
typically say well I read all the time
or I'm studying all the time but we
don't talk about that when we're talking
about a specific time period like we
don't say all the week for all the year
or all the day in those examples we
would talk about I do something all day
or all week or all minute or all hour or
all summer so the only time we're
talking about the when you would put the
in there is when we're just using the
expression all the time as maybe
something that you could use instead of
always so all the time is a really great
expression you can use when you're in a
conversation with people and you don't
want to say always or even if you're
just saying it's something you regularly
do as an example maybe I regularly study
Japanese on the weekend you can say oh I
studied Japanese all the time on the
weekends I'm talking about like a lot of
the time or always when I'm doing
something but remember we're only using
this for all the time we don't use this
when we're talking about a regular time
period like all the day or all the week
we just say all day all week all minute
all our all whenever number two is
another thing that's also very commonly
misused by people and typically this
depends on the language you're coming
from so really kind of as a general rule
for learning grammar you really have to
kind of get your mind thinking about the
way a native speaker would do it as
opposed to what you've been taught which
is how you translate things in your head
before you speak so you have to begin
thinking more like a native speaker and
that's what gets you actually using
grammar automatically as well as doing
cool things like having dreams in
English anyway the second one is I'm
exciting vs
I'm excited now this is for anything
where we're using an adjective to
describe something versus how you feel
about it so if I say I'm exciting it's
talking about me being the fun thing
like everybody loves me because I'm an
exciting person but if you're talking
about I'm excited by something else to
remember this you can talk about using
the word by after that so i can say i'm
excited by the idea of taking a trip to
France or I'm excited about doing
something so in that case you're talking
about the way you feel about a
particular thing so you were excited by
something you are scared by something so
if you are scary it means you are maybe
like really like a monster or you are
ugly you are scaring other people so be
careful about this when you're talking
about scared you're talking about a
thing doing something to you and that's
why you would use a verb kind of in that
way if you can think about it that way
like I'm scared like it sounds like a
verb like in the past tense or I'm
excited like it sounds like a verb in
the past tense so we're talking about
i'm excited because something did
something to you and they're making you
feel or it's making you feel in a
certain way so instead of i'm excited or
I'm exciting i should say like I'm
excited about something or I'm excited
by something rather than I'm exciting
the next thing is another one that's
very common and I saw it again recently
this week and that is little to talk
about having a little vocabulary but
notice how i pronounced it that the T
becomes more of a d sound little little
little we can say it very clearly and
say little but no one pronounces it this
way in a regular conversation little
little especially for American English
you might hear something like a little a
little when you're listening to British
English speakers but American English
it's going to be much more little little
now little and smaller actually mean
they're basically the same idea they're
describing the size of something like
you could say I have a small dinosaur or
have a little dinosaur and in that case
you're using both of those as describing
the size of something but typically
small is used when you're comparing
something because we can't say little
littler most little people don't say
that so we do say small smaller small
list and when you're talking about your
vocabulary as being small this is
typically in relationship to where you
think your vocabulary should be or the
maybe you know general vocabulary that
maybe other people might have so if
you're comparing something okay my
vocabulary is smaller than something
else so if it sounds like okay I should
use little like I can compare the two
things then you would say small but if
you can't really compare it if you're
just talking about the size of something
then you can describe that so you have a
small vocabulary or an even better
expression is a limited vocabulary
limited limited and finally how great a
job you're doing how great a job you're
doing if you want to describe maybe a
person place or thing and say wow you're
really fantastic or great you're trying
to describe how great of a person or how
great of a thing you need to have that a
in there you'd say i like how great a
job you're doing because we're
describing the job if we're going to
describe something where maybe you want
to describe the speed like i love how
fast you are so how fast i'm describing
the speed that's the thing i'm talking
about so we don't need to say up speed
like I love how fast you are we would
just say i love how fast you are i love
how slow you are i love how beautiful
you are i love how great you are but if
we're talking about a person place or
thing i love how great of a job you're
doing or I love how great a job you're
doing you're doing a great job this is
typically a pretty difficult thing to
say how great a job you're doing how
great of a job you're doing so the full
sentence maybe I love how great of a job
you're doing well that's the end of this
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