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I'm Gabby Wallace your American English teacher

Here with another English lesson for you now

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Maybe time for anyone anyway, you're here because you want to learn how to speak English

Naturally more like a native English speaker

the interesting thing is that

Most native English speakers make so many mistakes all the time when we compared with standard

correct English rules

so in this lesson

I'm actually gonna teach you how to speak English better than most

Native English speakers, how about that? Because a lot of native English speakers make mistakes

As I mentioned compared with standard correct English, we make mistakes when it comes to

grammar

structure

apostrophes

grammar rules even how we use vocabulary and so in this lesson

I'm going to share many many many many many many ways that you can actually

speak English better than

Native English speakers when it comes to grammar rules

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one

Word that a lot of native English speakers use that actually doesn't even exist. It's not even a

Standard American English word. It's eight

So when people want to say is not will often say ain't you may have heard it

In fact, there's a really famous song that I love by Bill Withers. That's like this ain't no sunshine when she's gone

Ain't no sunshine when?

She goes away

And it means there is no sunshine when

she is gone talking about a woman that he loves and

There is no sunshine just didn't work with the melody, right? Or maybe that's just how he talks

so he said ain't no sunshine when she's gone and

You know, it's common is it correct? No, but is it common?

yes, so we use ain't to say is not or

Do not have like I

Got money or I ain't got time ain't got time for that. Ain't nobody got time for that

That's the famous meme you may have seen

So ain't is not correct, but it's common okay

Another thing that a lot of native speakers do is make a double negative. So you heard me just say ain't

No

sunshine

which

Actually, if you think about it would mean that there is sunshine when she's gone

But that's not what the weather's just trying to say in this song

he's trying to say that there is no sunshine but ain't no sunshine is like

Negative negative but it's not like math where negative negative equals a positive

it's

Still negative. So if I say I ain't got no money or I ain't got no time

It still means that I do not have money or I do not have time

However, again, it's not correct, but it's common. Okay, you may even hear triple negatives

Like I ain't got no money for no one

That is super confusing but you know what it still means

No money. It's still negative. Even if it's a triple or a double negative

All right

Let's move on to another very common mistake that native speakers make all the time

and in fact, it's so common that I even hesitate to call it a mistake because at what point does a mistake become

correct, if let's say

90% of people are actually making the mistake. Is it still a mistake?

I would love to know your opinion in the comments, but this mistake is was versus worse

So for example a correct sentence would be if I were you I would

Study English more but most people are gonna say if I was you if I was you I study English more

But word is correct in that situation so which should you use in this situation?

like when most people are using was it actually depends on the situation you're in if you're in a

casual situation

Then I would probably recommend that you say was if I was you but if you want to sounds more

Educated if you are in a professional situation or an academic situation

it might be better to go with were and so as I share more of these mistakes, I think this is gonna be an

Underlying theme is that you have to learn both ways if you want to be able to fit in wherever you are in any

Situation. Okay, let's move on to

whom versus who so

Whom is actually dropping out of use it's not so popular anymore

But a correct way of using whom would be like, um to whom did you write that?

Love letter or to whom did you send that text?

But nobody really talks like that

you're probably gonna say who did you send that text to which is actually another mistake that I

Hadn't even written down to include in this video is ending a sentence in a preposition like - super

Not correct

another mistake that people often make or native speakers I should say is

Saying good instead of well, how you doing? I'm doing good. Thanks. How you doing?

well

we should actually say well I'm doing well because it's an

Adverb, but I'm doing good is an adjective but people usually say it that way so you have to decide do you want to sound?

Correct, or do you want to sounds?

normal

Mmm something to think about. Okay. So another one is

Who versus that?

So we already talked about whom versus who let's talk about

Hoover's is that so the rule is that who is for people and that is for things?

but people mix these up all the time we often use that for who instead of who so

the lady

that

Works at the post office is so nice

But the correct version would be the lady who works at the post office is so nice

So either way I think it's common but who would be more correct? Because we're talking about a person

next

Native-speakers love to forget the subjunctive tense

so for example would be really common to hear a sentence like it's important that he studies a

lot for this test, but

Actual correct way would be it's important that he study for the test

Subjunctive that's what a subjunctive is super hard for English speakers

When we go to learn another language like Spanish

It took me years and years to understand

What the subjunctive tense even was because people don't even really use it anymore in English

I mean we do but not that much just like whom or just like

Which which which is another

example

which

versus

that so which is for

non-essential

Information that is supposedly for essential information. So for example my a neighbor

Which

has

Three children is very friendly. Um, okay, so I guess that's not essential information

But I said my neighbor that

Lives on the left side of my house is very friendly, that would be more

Essential information because it kind of describes something

Important about that person to be honest. This one's a little fuzzy

It's a little so-so but I'm gonna tell you one thing people don't use which as much as that

people don't use who as much as that because that kind of covers a lot of situations and

People tend to just want to use the easiest word. You'll you'll hear that more often

Alright, let's talk about weather. And if I don't know whether I should have pizza or

tacos for lunch

Again, I'm getting hungry you guys always make these videos when I'm hungry

I don't know why but that is the correct usage of weather weather is when you have two or more options

But a lot of native speakers would say I don't know if I should have pizza or tacos

For lunch. I mean it's not

Necessarily correct, but it's really common so weather is for two or more choices

If is if you don't have another choice

so

I don't know if I should eat pizza for lunch because I had pizza for dinner last night

True story a lot of these examples

remind me of when I was learning Spanish and I

Had a friend who was a native Spanish speaker

And he happened to use this word that I loved all the time

he was save aina and by that means like thing, but it's kind of slang I guess and

One day I was in my Spanish class in college and I used this word and the teacher

She blew up on me ina is not an appropriate word. That is not even a real word

So don't use it in Spanish class, like wait, how can that be possible?

Because my friend he uses the word bind on all the time. And so I just want to sound like a native Spanish speaker

So I'm gonna use the word Dinah if you're a native Spanish speaker, you can tell me in the comments. What do you think?

Is it okay to use the word bynum like me who says? Ah Diana I like that thing

Is that okay or is that like not a real word? Okay

anyway

Let's continue because I have many many more ways that you can speak English

Better than a native English speaker when it comes to grammar structure and vocabulary

So let's keep going past verses past

Participle. This is a big one native English speakers will often

Confuse them or use the past participle

When it should be the past tense the simple past tense or vice versa

So for example, there's a skit that I like from key & peele substitute teacher

Where the substitute teacher says you done messed up ay-ay ron

But you done messed up is not really correct

correct would be you have

Messed up or you have made a mistake

But that's not how it says in the video

That's not how he does it in the skit but it's it still makes sense. I mean people understand even though it's not correct, right?

Okay another example

A mistake might be people commonly. Say he he's

Drank two beers all readiness only 4:00 p.m

people often use especially with this verb to

Drink we often use drank instead of drunk because we don't like using the word drunk in the past participle

Because it sounds like to be drunk the adjective and we don't want to say

That it's weird. But especially with this verb we often just say he's drank, but it's not correct

So the correct version will be he's drunk. So he has drunk two beers already

Honestly people are not using the

Present perfect as much anymore as they're using the past tense. So if someone wanted to say he has drunk

Honestly, they probably just say he drank two beers already and it's only 4:00 p.m. That's gonna be more common even

Even though the present perfect would be better in the situation when you're thinking about the rules

We're gonna use the simple past because it's just easier and we go for easy

but that's why so many English learners have trouble understanding the difference between the

simple past and the present perfect because native English speakers are

Messing it all up and we're not

Using the present perfect as much as we use the simple past even though we should be using the present perfect

But look that's the way it is. People are commonly

Using the simple past more instead of the present perfect

Okay, another common mistake might be I should have went to the party not correct

I should have gone to the party would be correct

Okay, let's talk about reported speech I'm gonna be super honest and tell you that I have had a problem with reported

speech for so long, because

Growing up in the United States as a native English speaker

I can tell you that people often do not use reported speech the way that you're supposed to according to

proper correct English grammar rules

So reported speech is if you're talking about what somebody else said to you

so for example if my friend my friend Sophia says I

am

Sick, ok. So then if I'm telling you say my friend Sophia said

she was

Sick, right. So we use the past tense. She said that she was sick and I know this is confusing

not only for English learners, but also

for me a native English speaker because

Honestly people don't even use this very much anymore. They don't use it in the correct way. What most people say is?

Sofia said she is sick so we would say

said - the first verb in the past tense because I

Was in the past on the phone with my friend Sofia and she said in the past that she is

Sick, or she was sick if I'm gonna say it in the correct way, but she's still presently sick

So that's why we communicate in the present tense, even though it's not correct

But I'm just telling you this because it's very common. But again the correct way would be using the past tense for both

She said she was sick

So confusing though, right? Because if we're saying was then is she still sick right now?

Okay. See see what I mean. It's confusing English is crazy

All right, if you're in the grocery store and you see those checkout lines where they say ten items or less

Those are super common signs, but they are incorrect

supermarkets grocery stores, correct yourselves

You need to be saying ten items or fewer why because fewer is a word that we use with countable

Items one two, three, four, five six seven eight. Nine ten or

fewer

items, however

we often confuse these two words fewer and less so less is actually for

Non-count nouns such as sugar could you put a little less sugar in my drink? I don't like it. So sweet

Oh, man, I'm making less money this year than last year so money sugar

Non-count nouns uncountable we use less, but we mix these up native speakers. We just we just mess everything

up

Let's talk about spelling and apostrophes for a moment

We often mess up there as in they are and they're possessive. This is something I see all

Day all the time we often mess up. You are your and

the

Possessive you're like your car is awesome

The most common mistake is people use the possessive you're why oh you are for both situations

so, you know if you're sending a text to

um

someone you like

Please don't write y ou you are

Awesome. I'll be like you're awesome what your awesome car?

This is one that does actually annoy me the other ones that I've told you so far

I think they're honestly, okay because they're really common but when it comes to apostrophes, I'm sorry

I am a little bit hardcore I get upset about the apostrophes because they mean different things

It's like you are versus possessive. So don't tell me in the comments. Why oh, you are beautiful

I'll be like you you learn your apostrophes

Okay, I'll settle down next

everyday versus

every day, so

every day

two words

Two not four. I'll choose one of the other two words as two words every day

means like

Each day, right?

So every day I go jogging which is true because I'm training for a 5k

Run in about a week, so I need to go jogging

Every day so every day as one word is an adjective

for example

Everyday items that you might find in someone's kitchen would be a

pot a spoon a coffee maker

Everyday describes items, right? So we need to know the difference

this is kind of a little thing, but it's a very common mistake Oh back to apostrophes because I'm not done with

Apostrophes. There's something else that really bothers me when people

Talk about the day of the week like Sundays and then they put an apostrophe

before the S

Sundae's what?

sundays on what Sunday's Sundays

Ownership sundays. I I don't understand

Why would you put in ' it doesn't need an apostrophe Sunday does not own anything

Okay rant over next people are using the word

Actually

literally and

Like okay the words plural these vocabulary words are being used

wrong, but is wrong really wrong when it is so commonly used that's the thing is that it's

wrong by standard

English rules, but are we are we just

evolving

Devolving. I don't know but people say

actually as kind of a transition word now like

Actually, I was thinking

We shouldn't have pizza or tacos for lunch. We should have a hamburger

So it's like an interjection or a transition word now

Literally is really overused. But it's also it's just become an

intensifier like

Actually, it's also used as an intensifier

Literally she has a thousand pairs of shoes

probably not literally literally really means

actually

Like exactly exactly so I don't think she has exactly a thousand pairs of shoes

literally is now used to intensify the meaning of

your

expression but that's not really the proper usage like is another 100 English teachers and

grammar snobs go crazy over the use of

Like because we're using it as an intensifier as a filler as a transition. I

Was like instead of I said and then I was like, oh my god

I like can't believe it because like she literally has a thousand pairs of shoes

Okay, next me versus I a lot of native speakers will

Mix these up for example

Me and my friend Sophia or my friends Sophia and me. So me should not be used as a subject

it should be I like my friend Sophia and I

Me is for a direct object

Sophia gave a book to me now

This gets super confusing when you start listening to music in English because there's a popular song by

Halsey and gez called him and I

And I it's like why would you put the direct object as a

Subject but rappers can do whatever they want. So they

Don't have to play by the rules. Do they so anyway

Me should not be a subject bottom line. But if you're writing a rap song go for it

one of my

Least favorite to talk about because I don't follow the correct rule is lay versus lie. So

People don't like to say lie

because

It sounds like the noun to lie

It's kind of like why we don't like using the past

participle of drunk or to drink which is drunk because it sounds like the adjective like

Oh, he's drunk. So we don't want to confuse our meaning but we've actually started using

These verbs incorrectly. So the

Common thing that people will say is oh, I'm gonna go lay down

I'm gonna go lay down and go to bed or take a nap or whatever. That's not correct

Actually, we're supposed to use a direct object always with the verb lay like for example

I'm going to

lay my

Phone on my hand

So phone is the direct object, but nobody actually uses the for very often

I mean probably just say I'm gonna put my phone down on my hand

Weird example, I know but happened to have my phone here and I happen to have my hand here. So pretty handy, huh?

okay, so we probably just say put instead of lay and

Commonly, we would say lie when we're supposed to say lay. I know it's really confusing also

Lay has another meeting, but we don't need to get into that

So, ah the correct way to use these verbs is to say I'm going to lie

down in bed

And I'm going to lay

The book on the table. That's correct, but do people actually say that nope

Okay quickly. I just have a few more we have further verses farther so we often mix these up

Farther is really for specific numbers

Like I'm on a road trip like Oh only a hundred miles farther to get to Austin

Texas because sometimes I Drive down there to see my friends

Further is a little bit more fear. T'v, like I'm going to have to research this this topic further in order to

to make a decision

affect versus effect

People mix these up all the time. It's actually not that complicated. This one does annoy me

the

Fact with an a the effect of

studying more as you'll get better the

Effect choose no. I just mix them up

Cute. Oh my god, then. I just mix these up. I just mix these up to effect is the verb

I can't believe I just made a mistake. This is a great example of how native speakers mess everything up

that

effect is the noun that the

that's because I'm not seeing them right that effect was an e the effect of studying is you'll get better to

effect with an a the verb is to effect like

Making this video I want to affect and help thousands of people, huh?

this is difficult you guys this is difficult for his native speakers and

finally the

Probably top most common mistake

I don't know why I quoted it because I don't think it's a mistake because we do it so

Commonly, but it really is a mistake

No quotation marks about it when we mix up is and are talking about singular and plural

Subjects, for example

Here's a lesson. Here's an English lesson with many many many

Tips for you. That's actually correct because here is an English lesson one English lesson, but if I said here's

Many tips for you, that would be incorrect. Although it's super common to hear that here is many tips

It's actually incorrect. I should say here are many tips for you. So there you have it

there's

Many tips for you. Sorry, but it's the way it is. So bottom line

What is correct and what?

Is common are not always the same thing

You can actually speak English more correctly than most native speakers if you make these changes

If you actually use these points that I just told you correctly if you want to

fit in and sound more natural then you may consider using

Both the correct way and the most common way depending on your situation

If you're in a more professional situation, I would probably opt for the correct version if you're taking a test

Definitely opt for the correct version. If you're talking with your friends, then maybe you could use the more common yet

Incorrect version. Here's the thing is do you want to be perfect or do you want to connect with people?

Do you want to always use the correct version or do you want to use the common version? I mean

Do you ever break the rules in order to do something that makes a little bit more sense?

like for example

a lot of people in the United States

We'll cross the street

Even if they don't have the green light or the little crosswalk man to cross if they say there's no one coming

Because it just makes sense. If there's no car coming we can cross the street and it's safe, right?

We don't have to wait for the rule that says we should wait for the light to cross the street

I know this is different in different countries different places

but I mean man go to New York City and you're gonna see people

cross the street when they want across the street and they will actually

yell at the cars if

If the car doesn't stop for them like hey, I'm walking here. What are you doing? So

Roles are funny things, aren't they? So tell me in the comments

What do you think is the best decision is it better for you personally to?

Use the correct version or do you think it's better for you to use the more common version of these points in English?

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