hi i'm rebecca from engvid in this
lesson you'll have a chance to review
eight common English errors so let's see
how you do the first one today morning I
woke up late so what's wrong with that
there is actually something wrong with
each and every one of these I will tell
you that in advance there's no there are
no tricks here okay so what's wrong with
that sentence today morning I woke up
late well it should be this morning okay
we don't say today morning we say this
morning number two what's the different
what's the different well that's wrong
too because different is an adjective
what you want to use here is the noun so
what's the noun of this word difference
what's the difference okay this is a
really common error so make sure you
don't make this one next one
I met John two years before okay what's
wrong with that well over here we can't
say I met John two years before we can
say I met to you I met John two years
ago all right if you use the word before
then you have to say before something
before I graduated okay before I got
married or whatever but if you can't use
before by itself so the proper word
there is ago I met John two years ago
next one this is a six months course
that sounds almost okay but it's not
okay so the mistake
here is with the s when we use this
expression it becomes the entire
expression becomes an adjective for the
noun course so we should say this is a
six-month course this is a
million-dollar contract and so on
okay that's another each of these is a
different element of grammar different
aspect of grammar and so on
next number five thank you I really
enjoyed what's wrong with that well the
problem is here enjoyed is a reflexive
verb so you would need to say I really
enjoyed myself I really enjoyed myself
he enjoyed himself she enjoyed herself
we enjoyed ourselves they enjoyed
themselves okay so there are certain
reflexive verbs in English and we need
to use them correctly that's one of them
very common one okay number six
did you lose your cell phone what's
wrong with that I helped you a little
bit by actually showing you where the
error is so many people make this error
this is actually a spell spelling
mistake you should be spelling the word
this way did you lose your cell phone
loose is an adjective which means not
tight and lose is the opposite of find
okay did you lose your cell phone
also the pronunciation is lose and not
loose next one this is an academic
course this is an academic course so
what was wrong with what I said there
okay so what was wrong was my
anunciacion of that so many people
mispronounce this word it is not
academic
it is haka demic the stress is on the
middle academic this is an academic
course this is an academic program okay
so if in case you make that mistake I'm
not saying you do in case you do make
sure you correct it last one yes I have
a free time that's what's wrong there
what's going on okay
here we don't need to say oh free time
we need to say free time because this
isn't time isn't uncountable now now
each one of these examples represents a
different aspect of grammar so how can
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did well and I hope you continue to do
better and better in English all the
best with your English bye for now
you