Funny English Mistakes You Don't Want To Make - English Grammar Fails

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Sometimes the tiniest errors in grammar, pronunciation and spelling can lead to very BIG – and
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very funny – consequences.
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So be careful you don’t make these mistakes in your speaking and writing.
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1. The correct sentence is, “Let’s go to KFC to get some chicken.” The incorrect
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sentence is, “Let’s go to KFC to get some chickens.”
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Unless you’re talking about whole chickens, you’d just say “chicken” because meat
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is uncountable. This is just confusing for chicken meat because most other meat names
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are different from the names of the animal that meat comes from. Beef comes from cows.
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Pork comes from pigs. But chicken comes from chickens. If you want to talk about the parts
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of a chicken, like the wings or legs, these are pieces of chicken.
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2. Next, the correct sentence is, “Thanks always for helping me.” A related sentence
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with a very different meaning is, “Thanks anyway for helping me.”
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If you want to say thank you to someone for helping you many times, you’d say, “Thanks
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always.” It’s like, “Thank you for always helping me.” Or “,Thanks for all of the
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help you’ve given me.” But when you use “Thanks anyway,” you’re saying that
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the person was NOT able to help you, but you still want to thank them for their time or
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attention. For example, if I ask someone for directions and they don’t know where to
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go, I can thank them for their time by saying, “Thanks anyway.” This would be correct
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and polite. But if the person DID help me, I’d just say “Thanks.” Only when someone
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is helping you often would you use, “Thanks always.”
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3. Next, the correct sentence is, “Thank you for your cooperation.” The incorrect
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sentence is, “Thank you for your copulation.”
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These two words do sound very similar. “Cooperation” means working with other people, but “copulation”
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is a formal term for having sex. So be VERY careful with these two. Remember “cooperate”
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as “co,” meaning “with,” and “operate,” which means to do some kind of action. Usually,
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when you want to ask customers or people to do something in a polite way, you’d thank
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them for their cooperation. But you probably wouldn’t thank them for copulating.
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4. Next, the correct sentence is, “Time to eat, children.” The incorrect sentence
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is, “Time to eat children.”
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Funny how one little comma makes a VERY big difference in meaning. With the comma, you’re
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talking to someone. Here, you’re telling some children that it’s time to eat. But
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without the comma, you’re saying it’s time to eat some children. Notice how my pronunciation
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is also different. “Time to eat, children.” “Time to eat children.”
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5. Finally, the correct phrase is, “Executive Board Room.” The incorrect phrase is, “Executive
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Bored Room.”
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These two sound the same, but a board room is where people, like the board members of
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a company, meet. A bored room, if such a place existed, would be a room for people who feel
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uninterested, or have nothing to do. Some board room meetings might be boring, but don’t
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get these confused when you write!
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