English is my second language. Some of my friend making fun of me. I asked them back. Can you speak Thai ? Right now understand American accent. But had a hard time with Uk accent. Watched " Absolutely Fabulous " didn't understand at all. 😢
As a half-British former 'grammar nazi', I believe that 1. how perfect my grammar is or should be strongly depends on the context (I'm still struggling to let go and allow myself to be ever-so-slightly ungrammatical over text and in other informal contexts); 2. I DO love learning as much grammar as possible (then again, I went to university for English studies, so that's just in my nature and personal field of interest), and 3. native speakers, including Brits, absolutely make mistakes, and quite regularly, too (depending on the person and the context, of course). The point is, English learners should never be ashamed of having less-than-perfect grammar. In speech, being ungrammatical is normal (and the ways in which people break grammatical rules is actually infinitely interesting to linguists :)), and in writing, well, that's what proofreading is for. Many thanks to Teacher Tom for this very important video and for everything else you do for the love of the English language!
To fill in the blank for grammar is easy, but the most headache was in essays, where you connect a few things together, n yet there's required of grammars
One mistake native speakers make, although not a grammar mistake: My name is Doctor Tim Johnson. No, your name is not 'doctor'. Your name is Tim Johnson and you are a doctor.
Learning the difference between read and read is something that trips up ESL speakets. Because it's the same verb in different tenses. At least lead and lead are different definitions..
As a native speaker (American), it frustrates and disappoints me that native speakers of English don’t understand basic grammar. The mistakes pointed out in this video drive me crazy!!! 🤪 Another one nobody does correctly: lay versus lie.
100% correct!🎉 I really thought there was a slight difference in the pronunciation of 'there' and 'their'. To me there's definitely a 'j' sound in the 2nd. Now I feel like Eliza Doolittle and her poor diphthongs 😂 And - yes, IMO grammar is essential and I like learning it. I don't think that making common mistakes makes me sound more native (which I'm not). Instead I'd rather use some modern slang or contractions for that purpose like 'innit')
The distinction between "fewer" and "less" seems important to me. And we have the same distinction in Swedish. The Swedish word for "less" is the same word as for "smaller", and this can make using the wrong word even more humorous. Some years ago I read in a newspaper, that the city of Stockholm was taking measures to get smaller cars in the city centre.
I honestly believe that native and non-native speakers make different mistakes, I would probably get all the ones you listed right (except for whom I never use 😅 ) but on the other hand I "keep to make" 🤭 mistakes that a native would never make!
Didn't know the difference between less and fewer... I guess I next to never use fewer. But those with the same pronunciation and different spelling I mastered already and would never make wrong again. I'm the one who pays attention to such a detail as spelling.
My pet peeve us "one of the only". EVERYBODY and their stepmothers get that wrong. It should be "one of the few" and two seconds worth of intuition will tell you why.
Everyone makes mistakes in their native languages. It's very normal and very common :) I'm fully bilingual and plenty of people (including me) make mistakes in both my languages. Just saying this because native English speakers as a whole tend to get shat on for "not knowing grammar" but it's not like it's an English phenomenon only. One I've been making for years, and only recently realized was a mistake is using or instead of and when listing stuff. For example when writing: No butter or sugar needed.
I am not a native speaker, but I have always liked English and all the mistakes in this video bother me too 😀 THANK YOU for including the last one, misplaced apostrophes! I see that mistake on the internet soooo often and I feel like almost nobody is talking about it! 😄
I see you avoided the dreaded "future tense" which doesn't exist. "I shall be pleased if you did the washing up." I would love you too pick the bones of that one sometime.
I suppose it's not a mix of those two, but plainly a synonym for "some time". I love it because it makes analogous sense. Somewhere exists, so somewhen should, too.
I am not a native English speaker (British or otherwise) But I agree with statements one and two and wholeheartedly disagree with statement number three. At the end exam I had NO mistakes at all, I'm glad to assure both you, and of course, myself.
It's same in Spanish, lots of mistakes or incorrect grammar Not everybody "loved" grammar or language lessons from the very beginning, at school, and they enjoyed more Maths, for example I'm Spanish and studied English Philology because I loved all my teachers of English and all my English and American Lecturers at University Then , I did all my courses in order to teach(Pedagogy courses), and others like Spanish for Foreigner Students, that was a very expensive Master I studied very hard and no money at all, and after graduating, I found the handicap that in private schools and academies, they don't hire Spanish teachers....even if we know perfectly the difference between the Present & Past Perfect I couldn't do my competitive exams, because I had to work very hard(I worked as a maid at 2 houses and as a chambermaid in several hotels) to pay all those Pedagogy courses, required to teach, according to the Teaching Laws in Spain Then, I got very ill and my then physician wouldn't want to give me the treatment for hypothyroidism I couldn't concentrate anymore, my memory went to h*ll, and I lost the possibility to go on with competitive exams I found a job as a teacher of Seniors and worked there for 16 courses,but my ex work partner started teaching absurd English under name groups such as "principiant". His job was administrative tasks and office issues , but he had attended the Official Language School in the past, for only 3 years(not even 5), and he had a long work contract there My ex boss and my ex partner stablished many "principiant" classes so that my partner also got a wage as a teacher. And I was dismissed soon after Covid crisis. I used to teach Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced lessons in well divided groups Due to him starting his strange lessons, I got some students unbalanced, saying they reached Intermediate level, when they didn't even know how to answer, 'how are you?' Nowadays, I HAVE BEEN unemployed since 2022, I HAVE BEEN looking for another job, but all is the same, 'we don't hire Spanish trachers anymore' I tried again Spanish for Foreigner Students , and the reply is, ok, only for summer season, as they just hire teachers who studied Spanish Philology, not English one I am extremely depressed, I have a very low income from Social Security, I tried killing myself 6 times I've got lovebirds, cockatiels, a canary and a pigeon I must go on for them, otherwise, I'd like to be....God knows where I also wrote a dossier with the most common mistakes my Seniors did, I gathered them all, after observing very much But...either you are a native speaker of English or you are lost, even if you studied very hard at University to get your English Philology Degree😢 Also, in private academies or schools, they tell you that teachers don't need any official degree, just to be native speakers... It's really frustrating. I keep on practising my English, thanks to YT, I follow chanmels like Tom's, others are related to animals and others are related to Medicine, as I started to study Medicine some years ago, part time, due to my illness, but I love it, as almost all my Senior students were Physicians and in my last courses I taught some English for Medicine I follow Dr. Eric Berg and reminds me of Teacher Tom. Dr. Berg is an American Doctor, and Oh My, his English, even if being American accent, is just so polished❤ just as Teacher Tom in his British accent I wish I had a new opportunity for teaching English, I just love it😢 but, meanwhile, I keep on studying Phisiology, Histology, Anatomy...and "things" like these!! 😅 Kind Regards to all of you, and especially to Teacher Tom ❤😊Thanks for your videos😊
Another one that drives me nuts is not using the correct object pronoun. For example, saying, “You can reach out to David or myself.” 🤢 Do Brits do that like we do in America? 😂
'Of' instead of 'have' is one of my pet peeves. 'I was told he won't of had his supper'. Aargh, absolutely does my head in! :D
But you gotta commend the person to get future perfect correctly.
I sometimes make mistakes as a British person by saying "You're speech is wonderful" by correcting myself stating that "Your speech is wonderful!
Both of which sound identical ...
As a Brit, this is very helpful!
English is my second language. Some of my friend making fun of me. I asked them back. Can you speak Thai ? Right now understand American accent. But had a hard time with Uk accent. Watched " Absolutely Fabulous " didn't understand at all. 😢
One mistake related to fewer and less, the rest was easy peasy! Oh, before I forget it, it was nice listening to you again, Tom.
As a half-British former 'grammar nazi', I believe that 1. how perfect my grammar is or should be strongly depends on the context (I'm still struggling to let go and allow myself to be ever-so-slightly ungrammatical over text and in other informal contexts); 2. I DO love learning as much grammar as possible (then again, I went to university for English studies, so that's just in my nature and personal field of interest), and 3. native speakers, including Brits, absolutely make mistakes, and quite regularly, too (depending on the person and the context, of course).
The point is, English learners should never be ashamed of having less-than-perfect grammar. In speech, being ungrammatical is normal (and the ways in which people break grammatical rules is actually infinitely interesting to linguists :)), and in writing, well, that's what proofreading is for.
Many thanks to Teacher Tom for this very important video and for everything else you do for the love of the English language!
To fill in the blank for grammar is easy, but the most headache was in essays, where you connect a few things together, n yet there's required of grammars
I see what you did there.
One mistake native speakers make, although not a grammar mistake: My name is Doctor Tim Johnson. No, your name is not 'doctor'. Your name is Tim Johnson and you are a doctor.
Learning the difference between read and read is something that trips up ESL speakets. Because it's the same verb in different tenses. At least lead and lead are different definitions..
As a native speaker (American), it frustrates and disappoints me that native speakers of English don’t understand basic grammar. The mistakes pointed out in this video drive me crazy!!! 🤪
Another one nobody does correctly: lay versus lie.
But even though you're genuinely American,you're also certainly native English speaker
@@igiranezafabien893 Of course.
100% correct!🎉 I really thought there was a slight difference in the pronunciation of 'there' and 'their'. To me there's definitely a 'j' sound in the 2nd. Now I feel like Eliza Doolittle and her poor diphthongs 😂
And - yes, IMO grammar is essential and I like learning it. I don't think that making common mistakes makes me sound more native (which I'm not). Instead I'd rather use some modern slang or contractions for that purpose like 'innit')
The distinction between "fewer" and "less" seems important to me. And we have the same distinction in Swedish. The Swedish word for "less" is the same word as for "smaller", and this can make using the wrong word even more humorous. Some years ago I read in a newspaper, that the city of Stockholm was taking measures to get smaller cars in the city centre.
Fewer AND smaller, eh? The green capital of the planet, obviously!
I honestly believe that native and non-native speakers make different mistakes, I would probably get all the ones you listed right (except for whom I never use 😅 ) but on the other hand I "keep to make" 🤭 mistakes that a native would never make!
Didn't know the difference between less and fewer... I guess I next to never use fewer. But those with the same pronunciation and different spelling I mastered already and would never make wrong again. I'm the one who pays attention to such a detail as spelling.
Does Raymond Murphy consider "Who do you love?", "Who is it for?", ... incorrect?
My pet peeve us "one of the only". EVERYBODY and their stepmothers get that wrong. It should be "one of the few" and two seconds worth of intuition will tell you why.
Everyone makes mistakes in their native languages. It's very normal and very common :) I'm fully bilingual and plenty of people (including me) make mistakes in both my languages. Just saying this because native English speakers as a whole tend to get shat on for "not knowing grammar" but it's not like it's an English phenomenon only.
One I've been making for years, and only recently realized was a mistake is using or instead of and when listing stuff. For example when writing: No butter or sugar needed.
I DO love British English it sounds so polite ..
Yes, we're very good at lying in a 'respectable' way ... That, after all, is what politeness usually means.
I am not a native speaker, but I have always liked English and all the mistakes in this video bother me too 😀 THANK YOU for including the last one, misplaced apostrophes! I see that mistake on the internet soooo often and I feel like almost nobody is talking about it! 😄
I wunder if double negatives exist since Old English and became wrang in last century or two.
You can do good ( in this world) but the meaning is subtly different !
I always put this one on the board: They're there with their car.
That's a nice one! Thanks for sharing : )
I see you avoided the dreaded "future tense" which doesn't exist. "I shall be pleased if you did the washing up." I would love you too pick the bones of that one sometime.
They called, they said they were going to be late for dinner.
Is this also correct ?
Thanks Tom
On the Isle of Wight we same 'somewhen' to mean something likes a mix between sometime and whenever.
I suppose it's not a mix of those two, but plainly a synonym for "some time". I love it because it makes analogous sense. Somewhere exists, so somewhen should, too.
I am not a native English speaker (British or otherwise) But I agree with statements one and two and wholeheartedly disagree with statement number three. At the end exam I had NO mistakes at all, I'm glad to assure both you, and of course, myself.
Blimey is it hot today !
Using inversion .
Can you make a video about Australian accent
It's same in Spanish, lots of mistakes or incorrect grammar
Not everybody "loved" grammar or language lessons from the very beginning, at school, and they enjoyed more Maths, for example
I'm Spanish and studied English Philology because I loved all my teachers of English and all my English and American Lecturers at University
Then , I did all my courses in order to teach(Pedagogy courses), and others like Spanish for Foreigner Students, that was a very expensive Master
I studied very hard and no money at all, and after graduating, I found the handicap that in private schools and academies, they don't hire Spanish teachers....even if we know perfectly the difference between the Present & Past Perfect
I couldn't do my competitive exams, because I had to work very hard(I worked as a maid at 2 houses and as a chambermaid in several hotels) to pay all those Pedagogy courses, required to teach, according to the Teaching Laws in Spain
Then, I got very ill and my then physician wouldn't want to give me the treatment for hypothyroidism
I couldn't concentrate anymore, my memory went to h*ll, and I lost the possibility to go on with competitive exams
I found a job as a teacher of Seniors and worked there for 16 courses,but my ex work partner started teaching absurd English under name groups such as "principiant". His job was administrative tasks and office issues , but he had attended the Official Language School in the past, for only 3 years(not even 5), and he had a long work contract there
My ex boss and my ex partner stablished many "principiant" classes so that my partner also got a wage as a teacher. And I was dismissed soon after Covid crisis.
I used to teach Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced lessons in well divided groups
Due to him starting his strange lessons, I got some students unbalanced, saying they reached Intermediate level, when they didn't even know how to answer, 'how are you?'
Nowadays, I HAVE BEEN unemployed since 2022, I HAVE BEEN looking for another job, but all is the same, 'we don't hire Spanish trachers anymore'
I tried again Spanish for Foreigner Students , and the reply is, ok, only for summer season, as they just hire teachers who studied Spanish Philology, not English one
I am extremely depressed, I have a very low income from Social Security, I tried killing myself 6 times
I've got lovebirds, cockatiels, a canary and a pigeon
I must go on for them, otherwise, I'd like to be....God knows where
I also wrote a dossier with the most common mistakes my Seniors did, I gathered them all, after observing very much
But...either you are a native speaker of English or you are lost, even if you studied very hard at University to get your English Philology Degree😢
Also, in private academies or schools, they tell you that teachers don't need any official degree, just to be native speakers...
It's really frustrating. I keep on practising my English, thanks to YT, I follow chanmels like Tom's, others are related to animals and others are related to Medicine, as I started to study Medicine some years ago, part time, due to my illness, but I love it, as almost all my Senior students were Physicians and in my last courses I taught some English for Medicine
I follow Dr. Eric Berg and reminds me of Teacher Tom. Dr. Berg is an American Doctor, and Oh My, his English, even if being American accent, is just so polished❤ just as Teacher Tom in his British accent
I wish I had a new opportunity for teaching English, I just love it😢 but, meanwhile, I keep on studying Phisiology, Histology, Anatomy...and "things" like these!! 😅
Kind Regards to all of you, and especially to Teacher Tom ❤😊Thanks for your videos😊
who whom needs some practicing.
They were winning the match, but the team was winning the match, right?
👍👍
Less money, but fewer pounds.
I thought your and you’re had a different pronunciation. ‘Your’ having an open o (like in door) and ‘you’re’ having an /u/ sound like in pool
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Another one that drives me nuts is not using the correct object pronoun. For example, saying, “You can reach out to David or myself.” 🤢 Do Brits do that like we do in America? 😂
Even Brits make? Even? :) From my observations native English speakers do these mistakes much more frequently compared to those who learn it
and that seems to be easily explainable
Tom, you are the dog's bollocks !
Who's on first?