hello and welcome back to real English with real teachers the majority of
English learners try their best to use English as purposefully and carefully as
possible avoiding grammar mistakes and speaking with precision as best they can
they learn the language they pass their IELTS exam they come to the UK they get
a job and then what of their colleagues comes up to them and says something like
all right mate lend us a tenner I ain't got no money they hear these
baffling abbreviations like init ain't we're using the incorrect pronouns but
how bad is our grammar really and how does it compare to the grammar of
Anglophones from other english-speaking nations well Charlie and I are going to put
that to the test today we're gonna get on the train go to London and speak to
as many native English speakers as possible and give them a grammar test
let's see who we can find to test in here what about these guys
Harry hello are you english like a native
I would of helped you if I was there now I can see immediately
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a comment and tell us how your first lesson was this is incorrect it should
be I would have and that's a common mistake people make oh I was just gonna give it a 've or yeah v e
a would've I would've helped if I was there contract it yeah contract that sh** why not
I would of helped you if I was there
is that correct or incorrect maybe incorrect can you correct that for us
yeah I'll give it a shot
were okay if I were there if you If I were there
yeah yeah that's the best I can do man am i right oh are you not going to say
and there might be another one hang on I think there's another one well are you done
well no I think there could be another one yeah you do that one you make in case it's wrong
in case it's wrong you do it and then you can take the blame I think it's w e
if I were there really if I were if I was there if I were there I would have helped you
if I were there I think yeah I'm gonna go with that yeah yeah it's on Lia final answer
so the incorrect sentence was if I was there I would off help you now Joel and
Lia put if I were there and that's okay and many people do say that but this was
in fact a third conditional something in the past something we can't change from
the past therefore we should have put if I had
been there I would have helped you so here we have the same mistake as the first
one again we have the interference of that tricky schwa sound so it should be
would've or would have
It had a dramatic affect on me
whoo well that's a lovely e that I've drawn that is a beautiful e his naughty behavior
effected me deeply his naughty behavior effected me deeply
all right yes that's the wrong effected ahh okay so we've got an a there right affected
it should be affected me
affected affected the first one was his naughty behaviour affected me
deeply so the verb begins with an A and then here we had the noun it had a
profound effect on me so why is he so confusing for native speakers why can't
they remember how to spell the verb and how to spell the noun it's because the
majority of people pronounce them exactly the same so if we look at the three
different articulations of the word affect the noun we have effect effect
and effect and the most common of the three is the middle one effect and guess
what it's exactly the same as the articulation for this one affect so
native speakers think to themselves why should I spell it any differently if
we're articulating and pronouncing it in exactly the same way it's confusing and
that's why we make this mistake there's a lot of shops in Covent Garden there's
a lot of shops in Covent Garden so looking at it that's nice because that's a
capital that's a capital
there are oh yeah there are a lot of shops there is yeah there's a lot a lot
yeah a lot is two words of shops in Covent Garden I think that's a perfect sentence
I think that's perfect
ouch that was a bit of an error wasn't it
as you know there are a lot of shops in Covent Garden is is for singular
are is for plural it's quite simple so there you go native English
speakers from all over the world make
grammar mistakes so what is the take home message from this video well if you are
someone who cares too much about making grammar mistakes and it's stopping you
from speaking fluently then I hope this reassures you that it's okay to make
mistakes the main purpose of learning a language is to be able to communicate
with people around you so if your English allows you to do that that's
brilliant and don't worry too much about making mistakes thank you very much for
joining us today and see you again soon for another video