Top 10 Spoken Grammar Mistakes in English 😱| Go Natural English

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Today we're talking about the top ten grammar mistakes in spoken English as

native and non-native

English speakers make them we have to stop making these mistakes they are

Confusing they are unprofessional

There's so much misinformation out there about

What is correct and what is not correct?

So today for once and for all

We are going to correct these grammar mistakes in spoken English

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So now let's get into the top ten mistakes in English grammar

spoken English and mistakes that both native and non-native

English speakers make so this is really a lesson for more advanced English learners

It can be really helpful to learn how to

use English correctly on a

Native speaker level if you can master these 10 points

You're gonna be speaking English better than most native English speakers

Do also I'm focusing on points that are incorrect

across the board no matter where you're speaking English because of course there are regional differences and

Country specific differences, but don't worry about that

Everything on this top 10 list is completely incorrect, but I'm gonna show you the correct ways of speaking as well

So where do these?

incorrect but very

common mistakes come from pop culture

creativity with the language often in lyrics or poems

It's just easier sometimes to say things the wrong way

I'll share a couple of examples with you of words that are just much easier to pronounce

The wrong way sometimes being correct is a lot harder. Let's jump into

Number 1 subject verb agreement and let me just be clear

I am guilty of this one because it's super

common when native speakers say things for example, like

There's a lot of errors in

Spoken English now that's completely incorrect, but it's very common

I should say there are a lot of errors in spoken English because errors is plural. It should take are

not is

Another example, I hear there's a lot of rumors on the internet again

Rumors is plural and so it should be there are a lot of rumors on the Internet

Why do we constantly make this mistake over and over again?

Why do you always hear native speakers saying there's for any plural subject?

Well because it's so much easier to pronounce

there's instead of there are or there were for the contraction just try saying that there're

There were that earth sound in English is difficult to make and it sounds awkward

So even if you can make that sound easily it just sounds weird

so a lot of people have adopted the singular there's even when we're talking about a

Plural subject. How about you do you usually say there's even when you're talking about something plural? Let me know in the

number two vague

pronoun references, for example, I

Just threw my grammar book out the window and then my English teacher asked me to bring it in

Well, you can probably guess that I'm talking about my English book because why would I bring the window?

into my English class to my teacher, however

grammatically, I would be referencing the window because I said that noun last so when I say it it's

Referencing the last noun that I said, which was window. So this is vague. It can be

Unclear in situations when it's not so obvious

for example

Let's say I'm making a salad

I put tomatoes and cucumber in my salad and then my friend said to take them out

Which am I referring to here tomatoes cucumbers or both of them? It's

Unclear because this is the way that we use pronouns in English. We need to be careful about making ourselves

Clear in sentences and situations like this number 3

Pronouns like you and I or you and me

When do we use I or me when you have a subject. It's I

When you have an object, it's me. So when you say something like between you and me, it's always

me between you and me or between you and him between you and her just

Remember that between when you use this phrase you're gonna be using an object and not a subject

So the subject would be I you and I are great friends

Between you and me you and I are great friends. There's a lot of confusion about this

so we need to understand the difference between a subject and an object an object is something that receives an

Action, usually when you have a preposition like between you and me me is receiving the action

Please hand the book to me. Well, I'm the object or me is the object

I would never say hand the book to I that is completely incorrect and people don't typically make that mistake

But we often get confused when we're saying shorter phrases like between you and me. We have some examples here

I hope are making it clearer now number four

we're versus was and

I'm also guilty of this one because it's so common to say was instead of were nowadays

for example

not as many people say if I were you they'd say if I was you, however, the

correct version in the correct way of speaking is if I were you and also it sounds more professional and

educated so it is best to remember if I were going to

Do something

when you're using this tense, you need to use were or I or if you were if he

were if she were if it were if we were if they were

always

Were and not was so why do we use was so often?

I think the people are just getting a bit lazy and confused about grammar

but remember if you're using this conditional tense

If I were you, I would correct my grammar

You should use were and not was it's the most correct way of speaking five

Omitting helping verbs. I know why this happens because we can barely hear the helping verb when we speak quickly

For example, I've been thinking about how to improve my English

It sounds like there's no helping verb there

But it's so slight I've been thinking about almost sounds like I've been thinking about but of course

That's not correct. I can't just use the past participle been without the helping verb have so make sure that you always have

Have when you're using the present perfect tense

Comparatives so earlier I use the comparative clearer, which is the correct way of saying this

comparative more clear would be clearer but a lot of people say more clear why because again that

Sound is hard and it sounds awkward

Clearer is hard to say even native speakers will often say more clear. Is it correct?

No, the rule is that when you have two or less syllables one or two syllables

You need to add an e are clear or pretty earth three syllables or more in the adjective

We say more and then the adjective for example

beautiful more

Beautiful. We don't say beautiful earth

That's really awkward

Sounding and sometimes little kids make this mistake

Because they're just following the rules that they hear and it sounds funny

But when an adult makes a mistake like this, it's not so funny anymore. So remember the rule

Intensifiers sometimes when you mean to say for example, you're so beautiful

You say mistakenly, you're too beautiful too. Beautiful is actually a negative thing. It's

Too much. It's it's

over

Satisfactory in a bad way, we don't want to say too beautiful

unless you mean that this person has so much beauty that you're just not able to handle it and you're gonna die or

Something it's a bad bad thing

Sometimes I hear my English learners say that food is too good and I'm thinking how could food be too good?

There's no such thing as food. That's too good

Unless maybe it's so good that it makes you want to eat too much

But in that case we would still say it's so good or it's really good

So unless you want to say that something is a bad thing that it's negative

Don't use to if I want to say I'm too busy

That's okay. Because if I think that busy is a bad thing then I can use to or it's too cold

I don't want to go outside

That makes sense. But if I like cold weather, I would never say it's too cold

Let's move on to number eight. It's very common to hear native and non-native english-speakers

Using the past tense when you should actually use the past participle one of the most common incorrect

usages of the past tense instead of the past participle is with the verb to

drink because the correct past participle is

Drunk but that sounds awkward because it sounds like you're talking about being intoxicated

so even if you're not drinking alcohol, you would say for example, I

have

Drunk a lot of water, but that doesn't sound good

It's correct

But it doesn't sound good because again using the word drunk or just the concept of being drunk is not a good thing

so a lot of people just say I have

Drank or they completely avoid this tense the present perfect all together. They just use the simple past

I drank a lot of water know that the correct past participle is

Drunk and a lot of people make mistakes saying for example, I have eight. That's the simple past

not the past participle or I

Have broke or I have took these are all

Incorrect it would be correct to say I have taken and I have eaten

Those are the correct past participles number nine

Adjectives versus adverbs it is becoming increasingly common to hear English speakers

using adjectives when they should be using

Adverbs, for example, I need to go quick instead of quickly

I need to go quick is common, but it's not correct and I need to go quickly

It would be the correct usage of the adverb

Way that the verb is how do you feel I feel badly. How do you need to go? I need to go

quickly, why don't people use the correct part of speech maybe because you have to add an extra syllable and it makes it a

little bit more of an effort to say I don't know but when we speak we always go for the

quickest easiest

Way to get our point across and so it's a little lazy

But if people can understand us, well, a lot of the times native speakers are guilty of speaking incorrectly

But that doesn't mean that it's good. It doesn't mean you should do that number 10

dangling

Modifiers I have to look this one up

I knew what it was in practice, but I had a hard time thinking of an example. So here's an example

I found on the internet

I remember meeting the mother of a child who was abducted by the North Koreans

right here in the Oval Office

This is such a confusing sentence for many reasons

But the dangling modifier is right here in the Oval Office

We don't know what this is

Modifying is it modifying meeting the mother?

Probably but it sounds like it's actually modifying because of its placement in the sentence at the end

Abducted by North Koreans. It sounds as if this abduction happened in the Oval Office

It's a very very confusing sentence and this kind of thing happens all the time

In spoken English and even in written English. I've seen this kind of issue with

Journalists who write articles with dangling modifiers and the information gets very confusing

So be careful having longer sentences is not always a good thing because there's so much more chance

To mess it up and to use something confusing like a dangling modifier or a vague

pronoun

so my advice is to keep your

communication clear and direct and when you're in doubt

just keep your communication really simple and

What would number 10 be without number?

in a

bonus point for us here the incorrect usage of articles like the have you ever heard someone say the

Facebook well, we don't use articles with things like Facebook or Instagram

Or the Google we simply say Google Facebook or Instagram

however, if we're using Google Facebook Instagram as

adjectives for example the

Facebook algorithm then we need to use the because we're no longer modifying Facebook. We're modifying

Algorithm the algorithm. What kind of algorithm the Facebook algorithm?

I recently also learned that we no longer use the article the with Ukraine after

1991 or 1992

The country the Ukraine is now Ukraine. So that's another case where you should not use an article

Tell me what you think about these

common grammar mistakes

Are you guilty of making any of them or any of them unclear or would you?

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