hello hello hello everybody my name is Steve Fort I have five
more secrets for speaking English fast and here's a little spoiler
hey did you go to the party last night nah I was too tired if I don't want that I fell
asleep if you would have gone I would have bought you a drink first off everybody please if you can
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my work so these five secrets are brought to you today by my subscriber Adam who asks me do native
speakers also make grammatical mistakes as you can see in that dialogue that is very true and
sometimes those mistakes are obvious and really wrong and sometimes they're accepted and not
so bad secret five I am working out since June or I have been working out since June
yeah I'm working out at the gym since last June June of last year yeah and I see less people here
by the way do you got anything heavier so there are three things that this guy said
in secret number five that yes sometimes native speakers make grammatical mistakes which can be
acceptable and sometimes can't and I'm gonna show you how and in the first example here we have I
am working out since June this is very popular might come as a surprise for you surprise this
kind of structure is used quite a bit by native speakers heck I think even my mother would use
this yes it's that common so I'm working out since June why is that wrong because actually
it's grammatically incorrect and we should say that I have been working out since June so you
can imagine I'm working out now or I have been working out since June what does that mean it
means that you started that in the past and that you continue into the present and there
is a strong possibility that you you will continue working out in the future we hope yeah and I see
less people here less people few people which one is it well in fact because people is accountable
it should be fewer people and you will hear a lot of native speakers make this mistake and
sometimes I'm correcting them no that should be fewer people are you the grandma police no
less people people is countable you don't okay forget it by the way do you got anything heavier
this is a classic mistake that a lot of native speakers make it's very informal and I don't
even think they realize that they're making this mistake do you got we have do you have
and have you got but somehow things got mixed together and people not native speakers they
will say do you got so that's going into the danger zone of being a little too informal a
little too incorrect secret number two and secret number one are really big mistakes
that a lot of native speakers make and let's check out how they use them hey did you go to
the party last night nah I was too tired if I don't want that I fell asleep if you would
have gone I would have bought you a drink top secret number two if I'd have went I'd have fell
the first mistake is that it should be if I had gone there if I had gone so some native
speakers they really struggle with the past participle and with the past participle you
have gone what about fall that's Fallen welcome everybody to your irregular verbs workout
fall fell Fallen fall fall fell Fallen are you still with me because now we have the best secret
of all top secret number one if you would have I would have okay so this is one of the top mistakes
that a lot of native speakers make is they will use a conditional three which should look like
this but they use the same structure on both sides both clauses [Music] [Applause] [Music]
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if I am him I score that goal if I am him I score the goal if I am him I score
that's totally wrong and it should be if it had been me I would have scored that goal
now I have another Secret about what native speakers do that maybe you don't know about
and I'm going to put that in my next video so you stay tuned for that next
week and I hope you enjoyed this lesson subscribe and please like this video and
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