Phrases to Surprise English Native Speakers

want to speak real english from your first lesson sign up for your free lifetime account at englishclass101.com hi everybody my name is alicia and today we're going to be talking about 10 of the hardest words to pronounce according to you guys so we collected some information from you on facebook thanks very much for sending in your ideas and these are the top 10 uh most difficult words for you to pronounce so let's get started absolutely absolutely absolutely might be tough to pronounce absolutely means 100 absolutely is uh an agreement phrase are you going to that music event next week absolutely yes 100 definitely absolutely loot like a loot l-u-t-e be grime the grime apparently means dirty i've never heard nor used this word before but perhaps it's difficult to pronounce big grime the door to my apartment was begrimed in the storm last week breakfast the next word is breakfast breakfast is hard to pronounce but that is the meaning of breakfast you're breaking the fast so a fast is a period of time without eating and to break means to just well in this case breaking something it doesn't refer to like crushing a thing but um stopping something to break the fast of the night in other words so you're fasting during the night you're not eating so you wake up in the morning you break the fast but we don't say breakfast we say breakfast in a sentence this morning for breakfast i ate a bowl of cereal with grapes and i had a coffee too colleague colleague yes colleague many of my students struggle with this they say colleague or they say caligu or something because the spelling of this word is really really strange there's that g-u-e at the end or more commonly i feel it's just co-worker colleague sounds slightly more formal to me than co-worker somebody who you work with or somebody who you have a business relationship with in some sense it could be a person from another company could be somebody from your own company anyone who you do business dealings with is your colleague can be your colleague in a sentence i'm going to a networking event with my colleagues next week miscellaneous that misc miscellaneous it's just the spelling i think maybe is confusing for this word miscellaneous miscellaneous just means other stuff or just other uncategorized stuff i keep a lot of miscellaneous items in a drawer in my house maybe they don't they don't really fit into one category like it's not kitchen things it's not clothing it's just sort of a mixture of of things miscellaneous things negotiation the next word is negotiation negotiation yeah there are two t's in this but neither t is a hard t they're both very soft that sound because they're followed by the i and another vowel that she a negotiation negotiation refers to a compromise between two people you're trying to make a decision and you negotiate in this case it's a noun form negotiation business negotiations continued for more than a month with this important deal realm realm i see why this one's hard it's that rome part little realm it's a weird word isn't it it's used to talk about just like the kind of a fantasy world is sort of the nuance of this phrase the realm uh in a sentence let us go to the realm where the elves live and eat their bread unfortunately the next word is unfortunately unfortunately unfortunately it just means too bad you can use this to to start bad news for example like unfortunately i can't come to work today because i'm sick or unfortunately i broke my arm at the basketball game last week or unfortunately my haircut is bad vocabulary vocabulary vocabulary vocab vocabulary vocabulary vocabulary just refers to the uh words in a language my vocabulary in my second language is really really low i need a bigger vocabulary so that i can express myself more clearly world world ah i see why this one's hard world world hard to pronounce that rld i think uh together is tough plus that w at the beginning as well it's such a short word but you have to say so many weird things at the same time world your tongue is going like this in a sentence i have traveled all over the world and the best food is in [Music] my stomach that's the end so those were 10 hard to pronounce words give them a try slowly at first and just kind of try to work up to saying it at a more natural speed if you like thank you so much for sharing your opinions with us on facebook and please make sure to subscribe to our channel so that you don't miss out on any of this fun information so thanks again for watching today and we'll see you again next time bye you don't need new shoes you need new feet hi everybody my name is alicia and today we're going to be talking about 10 phrases that you always want to hear so let's begin you win the first phrase is you win you win if you hear the phrase you win it means you have won something you are probably going to receive something for free that's a very happy thing right you want to get free things congratulations you win a car yay here are the keys to your new car great thank you i brought you something special this is exciting to hear because it means this little something special is like oh i thought only a view so i brought you this i brought you something special really thank you i miss you i miss you i miss you it's nice you can use this with your friends your family members your partner whoever i miss you shows that you want to meet the other person probably you haven't you haven't seen them as much as you would like to so you can say i miss you i miss you call your husband or wife or boyfriend girlfriend whoever on the phone maybe you haven't seen them for a long time you can say i miss you i miss you too take a break i'll do the cleaning today take a break i'll do the cleaning today this means someone else is going to clean up your house for you or clean up something for you i would be very happy to hear this phrase right now because my apartment is a disaster because i'm only there to sleep so maybe you've had a long day at work or a long day doing something you come home and somebody else has offered to do this for you so take a break i'll do the cleaning today and you can reply really thank you so much i'm gonna relax the budget is unlimited the next phrase that you always want to hear is the budget is unlimited the budget is unlimited this could be a work this could be a budget a personal budget maybe but it just means there's no limit to the budget you can spend as much money as you want very exciting so let's see in a business context perhaps you have this new client who's going to give you a lot of money to build a new house or something maybe you're building houses that's your project your boss comes to you the budget for this project is unlimited really let's go crazy there'll be a bonus at the end of the month yeah this is a phrase that you probably are very excited to hear it means you are going to receive extra money from your job at the end of the month woohoo very exciting extra money maybe you'll hear this from your boss or your manager or maybe your co-worker at work or maybe you see it in an email there'll be a bonus at the end of the month really i'm going to use mine to buy a new car really i'm going to use mine to go out on a date really i'm going to use mine to get a new fish you did a great job you did a great job you did a great job at something you'll probably hear from well i don't know you could hear this from pretty much anybody anytime you've done a good job someone will congratulate you or tell you their opinion with this phrase you did a great job you finished a project at work and your boss says you did a great job nice thank you so much it was really fun or thank you just just say thank you you look great today you look great today the other person thinks that your physical appearance is nice today don't think about the today part you know just just just take the compliment oh really thank you so much you look great today oh thank you so much i got a new haircut thank you so much i i got enough sleep yeah you were right you were right this means that um something that you said in the past was correct and everybody likes to be correct i think i saw that movie that you recommended you were right it was really good oh good i'm glad you enjoyed it don't be like i know or yeah i knew i was right don't do that just say oh good i'm glad you're an excellent cook you're an excellent cook this is a nice compliment especially for someone who enjoys cooking if you say you're an excellent cook it means you enjoyed their food so let's see at a dinner party for example you're an excellent cook this food is delicious oh thank you so much i'm really glad you enjoyed it and that's the end so those are things that you want to hear so keep in mind it's nice for you to hear these things but other people also want to hear them too so compliment other people tell them that they are awesome if they're awesome tell them that they have good skills in whatever it is that they like to do people like to be complimented people want to be liked so write them a message or say something nice to them yes leave us a comment we have a great team of people doing all these amazing things so tell them how much you love them so thanks so much for joining us for this week's lesson we will see you again next time please make sure to subscribe if you have not already so that you don't miss out on any fun stuff thank you very much again for watching and we'll see you again soon bye i guess i don't really need to do that oh i'm so sorry amp all the time japanese bug battle hi everyone i'm christine from englishclass101.com in this video we'll be going over how to agree or disagree in english like a boss let's begin i don't agree no of course i agree oh absolutely maybe yes you're right i couldn't agree with you more that's exactly how i feel exactly no doubt about it you have a point there i was just going to say that i guess so well i'm not sure i don't disagree with you if you say so you're wrong i don't think so i'm afraid i disagree that's not always the case what do you think can i add something here let's just move on shall we i think we're going to have to agree to disagree that's true how is it if you have any more questions please leave a comment below see you next time here i go here i go here i go hi everybody my name is alicia welcome back to top words today we're going to be talking about 10 phrases that make you look like a fool hopefully you never use them let's start i don't need to learn anything anymore i don't need to learn anything anymore if you say this you sound like i know all the information ever i'm done learning i'm done studying of course you need to learn of course you need to study please don't say this phrase i don't need your advice i don't need your advice i don't need your advice you sound like you don't appreciate what they're saying you sound like you don't want to hear anything from them i really think that you need to be studying more i'm concerned about your grades jeff i don't need your advice mom i know everything i know everything this is awful nobody wants to hear you say this because it's just not true are you ready for the test next week steve yeah i'm good i know everything they don't i'm not ready to learn english i'm not ready to learn english you can study anything at any time pretty much i really think that you should start studying english before your trip to america next year no i don't think i'm ready to start learning english see how stupid that sounds [Music] i'm right and you're wrong i'm right and you're wrong you sound awful when you say this nobody likes to hear that they've made a mistake and that you're happy about that that's what the nuance of this phrase is i'm right you're wrong don't say this phrase unless you're very very close with the other person and you know that it's okay to joke together i'm right you're wrong it's too hard don't even try it's too hard don't even try this sounds like you're giving up before you've even started doing something if you don't try you never know right hey i think i'm gonna start studying english this week because i'm going to canada next year what do you think don't even try it's way too hard oh really you think it's too hard um okay i guess i won't don't do that just do what i say just do what i say just do what i say parents might use this phrase a lot with their children actually but if you say this to your friends or to your colleagues you're going to sound like a really mean or difficult to work with person just do what i say we can't do that the next phrase is we can't do that this could also be changed to i can't do that again this sounds like you're giving up before you even tried to do something i can't do that you're just you're not prepared or you're not even willing to try hey stevens do you think that you could take care of this report for next week we need it for our client meeting ah no i don't think i can do that no that's that's not my job that's not my responsibility you're not very smart you're not very smart that's not a nice thing to say if someone makes a mistake and you say oh you're not very smart that's so mean it's so rude everybody makes mistakes from time to time don't tell them that they're stupid don't say you're not very smart that's hurtful and an example of what not to do i'm so so sorry about this mistake that i made in my report last week i'll fix it i promise i'll fix it and i'll send it to you right away i can't believe you made such a simple mistake you're not very smart are you everybody makes mistakes you'll never succeed you'll never succeed you'll never succeed this is a phrase that shows you're not supporting the other person and maybe you're even trying to hold them back how awful is that who would say that don't say that and i hope no one ever says this to you i'm going to join a marathon race next summer i can't wait a marathon you're never going to succeed with that do you know how hard those are have you even started training well no but i think i can do it i just need a few months and you know i need to take care of myself and work hard no way there's no way that you can do that it's not possible oh you really think so i was so looking forward to it too thank goodness that's the end oh my gosh those were some sad phrases i hope that nobody says those phrases to you but i hope also that you don't use these phrases with other people because they're hurtful really try to be positive so thanks very much for joining us for this lesson and we will see you again soon bye i'm very insecure about my acting abilities oh there's sound coming through this i love the awkward pauses hi everybody welcome back to top forwards my name is alicia and today we're going to talk about 10 different ways to remember words so these are actually some ways to remember words that you have sent in to us so i'm really excited to see what your recommendations are i study other languages so let's talk about it let's see i associate new words with words that sound similar in my native language if you're studying english your native language might share some words so like i'm studying japanese and for example the word chocolate sounds very very similar in in japanese so in english the word is chocolate in japanese the word is chocoreto so it sounds similar so that's an easy word for me to remember i learn about the roots of words and how different words are related to each other many words in english have roots in very very old languages like latin so a word like omniscient for example can be broken down into maybe two parts the omni omni meaning all or everything and shint the sheen's part relates to knowledge or knowing so together the word means all knowing omniscient maybe you can guess the meaning even if it's the first time you've seen the word okay i listen to songs and memorize the lyrics this is also a common way to to help kids learn things too through songs opposite of b plus or minus the square root b squared minus 4ac all over 2a it's a quadratic function equation because it's a song it's still in my head thank you mrs time i often watch tv or youtube videos that are designed for young children that's how children in the native language learn so it's a great tool for you don't be embarrassed to do that i do that in english we have dora the explorer we have sesame street i speak as often as possible with native speakers a native speaker can go ah that's that's a strange thing that you're saying so there are a lot of small factors that you can't get unless you're speaking with a native speaker so this is a really really great tip if you're interested in doing this with us we have on englishclass101.com a special subscription which is called the elite level of subscription where you get to actually study with one of our teachers here so if if you don't have somebody that you can study with now that might be a way to do it please check that out if you're interested i try to use the language routinely in the context of daily life when you're alone just doing stuff at home like making breakfast or cooking or doing the laundry if you use the language just to say like now i'm going to i don't know cut vegetables or oh i need to do laundry later today or thinking about your appointment whatever another good example is really i put my phone into my target language you're telling little stories when you're having conversations with people so get used to telling yourself the story i use repetition reading writing and speaking words over and over again keep repeating in your studies even if it feels like you know you're not making any progress you are just just the act of doing that repetition can be helpful for you if a football player never throws a football he's not going to be able to throw it very well is he you have to repeat repeat repeat and then when you're faced with the actual situation where you need to throw the football you need to use that vocabulary word you're ready you already know how to say the word so yes repeat it's good i try to think in english so it becomes natural to my thought process i do this i think about what i need to do i think about what i have done i think about what i'm going to do and so in that way you can practice past tense future tense and present tense recently this has been happening to me i've started dreaming in japanese from time to time or i dream bilingually it's exciting i think i try to use the word in a simple sentence so i learn whole phrases not just individual words yes this is a huge tip so vocabulary is important of course if you don't know a key word you might miss the meaning of something but context is important too so there might be two words which seem very similar like big and large for example but when should i use large when should i use big like if you're close shopping and you say do you have this in a big size it might not be the correct way to use the word instead do you have this in a large size is the correct phrase so learning how to use the correct vocabulary word at the correct time is important and you can do that through studying sentences and phrases instead of just vocabulary this is why reading is important i feel reading as much as possible especially the newspaper helps me to remember words when i was a kid i just read everything i was i was so into reading i loved it and i think that it helped it actually helped my language skills improve even in my native language again at first it's really hard to do and you might have to use a dictionary a lot but you'll learn gradually more natural speaking patterns more natural writing patterns too which will help you to sound more natural when you speak and maybe it can help your listening skills too when you can listen for those patterns that you see in textbooks that you see in newspapers in novels whatever it's a great tool reading and thank goodness that's the end so those are 10 tips that you can use to remember new words and new phrases try them out i'm going to be doing my best with my target language i hope that you do too thank you very much for watching please please please subscribe to our channel if you have not already and we will see you again soon for more exciting information bye i have to go to the bathroom hi everyone i'm christine from englishclass101.com in this video we'll be talking about how to curse like an english native speaker piss a slang term for urine for example don't piss your pants you can say this when you're really scared or anxious for example if you're about to go on stage to make a speech or perform someone can say don't piss your pants you can do it pissed off to be really angry when i'm angry i can say hey i'm really pissed off at you right now why did you do that for loser used to describe an uncool person in high school my friends and i would use this a lot and we would say hey loser how's it going idiot used to insult people by saying they're not intelligent of all the mean things that you can say this is on the lighter side but people still use it shoot this is used to show disappointment or frustration without using a stronger curse word shoot i spilled my coffee shut up you can use this when you want them to be quiet or there's something surprising that you just heard you can say shut up no way ticked off to be really angry you can say this with pissed off so this is actually an older term not many people use this as much anymore because most people actually just use pissed off fool this is similar to saying someone is like a clown you can say you're acting like a fool right now jerk this is a light insult used to describe someone who is mean for example if there's someone bullying another person that person is being a jerk wimp this means someone who isn't strong there is a movie out right now called diary of a wimpy kid have you seen it have you not i haven't yet so how was it if you have any more questions please leave a comment below see you next time [Music] that means we're going to the movie theater right all right uh hi everybody my name is alicia welcome back to top words today we're going to be talking about must-know expressions for agreeing and disagreeing very useful so let's go exactly exactly when you agree 100 with something someone else has said you can say exactly for example ramen is one of the best foods in the world exactly i don't agree i don't agree you have a different opinion from the other person they tell you i think that soccer is the best sport you can say ah i don't agree but be prepared to provide your own opinion after this i think soccer's the best sport i don't agree i think that football is oh that could cause some problems soccer football americans say football when we mean american football but the rest of the world says football when they mean soccer maybe maybe is when you don't know when you can't make a decision or when you're not sure about something okay so someone tosses you an opinion someone says their their idea to you i think it's going to rain tomorrow you can say yeah maybe you don't know for sure yes or no but it's possible it's a good sort of in-between expression but if you use maybe all the time it's going to sound really strange and it's going to sound like you can't make a decision so use maybe very sparingly don't use it so often maybe is very commonly used as a soft no it's up to you to figure that out among the people that you're talking to though do you want to stay over at my house this weekend and maybe i couldn't agree with you more you are in complete agreement with the other person and really want to communicate that to them you think that what they have just said is really really correct super correct yes you are completely on board with that idea you can say i couldn't agree with you more i couldn't the negative form i could not agree with you more meaning it's not possible that i could agree more with what you're saying next week it's really important that we have a barbecue because summer is ending and then your friend can say i couldn't agree more that's a fantastic idea i'll buy steak i think we're going to have to agree to disagree agree to disagree this is a kind of it seems like a simple phrase agree to disagree so you're agreeing with the other person you agree that we have a different opinion agree to disagree i would use this expression at the end of a discussion so person a and person b have different opinions and they've been discussing those opinions for a long time and person a is not changing his or her opinion person b is not changing his or her opinion so you can say at the end of the conversation okay we have to agree to disagree let's just accept our different opinions and move on in the conversation you have a point there this is not necessarily an agreement or disagreement phrase it's a small agreement within a larger discussion so maybe you've been discussing a topic for a long time and you've disagreed with the other person until this this time this person says something and you agree with that ah you have a point there so there's one thing that this person has said that you can agree with you can say you have a point there i think that's correct or i agree with that point that's exactly how i feel that's exactly how i feel meaning my feeling is the same as your feeling or my opinion is the same as your opinion that's exactly how i feel maybe you can use this if someone describes your feeling very accurately for example you can say i feel like the company is really heading in a nice new direction you can say yeah that's exactly how i feel i really like the new boss i don't think so i don't think so it's soft it's not so direct it's not a hard i disagree but just i don't think so of course you can use it to discuss opinions but you can also use it when you're making plans are you going to that party this weekend and i don't think so it's not a disagreement but it can be used as a negation phrase and a negative response to something when used as an opinion i think chinese is the hardest language to learn you can say i don't think so i think that arabic is the hardest language to learn yes you're right yes you're right means you're correct yes i agree with you i think that's the right information i think that's the correct opinion just a very clear agreement phrase you're right it also has the nuance of being correct so maybe there was there was a possibility the other person could be incorrect did you know that pepperoni pizza is the most delicious pizza in the world yes you're right you could change it too that's right for that opinion you can use your to talk specifically about the person itself but that's right yes that's right that information is correct i guess so i guess so it's so it's an agreement but it's sort of a flaky agreement i guess so it's like you don't really want to make a decision uh but you don't feel strongly in one like in agreement or disagreement you can say i guess so it's usually said with this tone of voice i guess so you know we don't really say i guess so generally it's like you can't quite make a decision or you don't want to make a decision you can say i guess so hey we're going to go for chinese food for dinner tonight do you want to come yeah i guess so you don't feel strongly either way i guess so i'm afraid i disagree it's a rather polite expression that you can use in a business situation for example i'm afraid here doesn't mean i'm actually scared or i'm really frightened but just it's a softener that's used at the beginning of sentences to introduce a negative opinion so i'm afraid i disagree or i'm afraid i can't agree with you for example i think that you need to adopt a new policy for your company i'm afraid i disagree it's a soft disagreement that sounds a bit more formal than some of the other phrases we've talked about so far absolutely absolutely means 100 yes exactly precisely definitely it's a quick and clear and can be polite as well as casual um word that means you agree with the other person hey do you want to go to the beach this weekend yeah absolutely absolutely oh that's the end so those are some phrases that you can use to agree and disagree with other people there are a lot of them so and you can kind of mix and match them as you see fit so give them a try thanks very much for watching this episode of top words and we'll see you again soon bye flyers beach okay hi everyone i'm christine from englishclass101.com in this video we'll be talking about the top 10 english slang words let's begin creepy this is used to say that someone makes you uncomfortable teacher's pet this is used as an insult to classmates who try too hard to impress the teacher or for someone who is especially liked by a teacher scaredy cat an insult for people who are easily scared tattletail a person who tells authority figures information in order to get someone in trouble nerd a person who is smart but not cool ginger this is an insult for people with red hair bimbo used as an insult for women who aren't smart jock used as an insult for men who are into sports and aren't smart show off someone who takes every opportunity to display their talent clown used to say that someone is silly how was it if you have any more questions please leave a comment below see you next time hi everybody welcome back to top words my name is alicia and today we're going to talk about 10 mistakes that native english speakers make so let's get started less fewer okay so the first mistake that native speakers make is they confuse less and fewer less and fewer are very similarly used however there's a key grammar difference between them we use the word less to refer to uncountable nouns a quantity of uncountable nouns we use fewer for countable nouns so for example uh to use fewer i could say i made fewer mistakes on this test than i did on the last one and to use less i could say i made less money last year than i did this year so when you want to use when you want to make a comparison with a countable noun when you want to talk about a smaller quantity of something or smaller amount of something with a countable noun you should use fewer if you're talking about an uncountable noun you should use less so please be careful less and fewer less uncountable fewer countable your you're the next pair is actually a spelling related mistake it's your and your so y-o-u-r and y-o-u apostrophe-r-e your is the possessive uh like something that belongs to you is yours your item y-o-u apostrophe r-e is the contracted form of you are you are great you are funny you are tired for example native speakers often make spelling mistakes because these two words sound the same but actually they are grammatically different so another example sentence um your performance was really great my parents think you're great my parents think you're great so here we have the apostrophe r e your so please be careful native speakers often make this spelling mistake there there there okay so the next mistake that many native speakers make uh is again a spelling related mistake it's with the three types of there there's uh there as in over there a location there's there t-h-e-i-r the possessive form something belonging to them and t-h-e-y apostrophe r-e the contracted form of they are native speakers often make spelling mistakes with these three words because they sound the same they're they're there they all sound the same but in terms of grammar they have different functions so in an interesting sentence you could say they're in their car over there or they're over there in their car whoa so we can use all of these words in the same sentence but in order to correctly express the meaning we need to make sure the spelling is correct too it's it's the next one the next mistake that many native speakers make is a punctuation mistake usually uh the difference here is between it's with an apostrophe and it's without an apostrophe so the word it's with an apostrophe can be the contracted form of it is or it has depending on the sentence it's with no apostrophe just means the possessive form of something so something which belongs to it some it outside this discussion so um native speakers often forget which which one gets an apostrophe does the possessive get an apostrophe or not so no the possessive form does not take an apostrophe here the only apostrophes are for the contracted form of it is and it has so please don't make this mistake that native speakers make in a sentence i saw star wars it's a really cool movie its effects are awesome nuclear versus nuclear okay the next mistake is a pronunciation mistake many native speakers make this mistake many high-ranking officials presidents make this mistake politicians make this mistake the word nuclear nuclear is spelled n-u-c-l-e-a-r nuclear however many people pronounce this as nuclear for some reason i don't know why this is but many people say nuclear instead of nuclear if you pay attention to the news you'll probably hear this after a short discussion of this topic somebody will say the word nuclear i don't know why this is but nuclear nuclear is the correct pronunciation of this word don't pronounce nuclear as nuclear could have versus could of okay the next mistake that native speakers make is again a spelling usually a written a written problem it's could have and could of could have and could of so actually could of is the mistake here we don't use the could of could of is not a grammar point here rather when native speakers use the contracted form of could have it sounds like could've so for example i could have come to the party if i finished my homework or i could have met you last weekend or i could have could have blah blah blah it's could have could have but when speaking in speech it sounds like of i could have i could have because the contracted form sounds like like of it makes a v sound and of sound so sometimes native speakers write could of however this is incorrect uh we should write could have if you'd want to use the like expanded the regular form instead of the contracted form so could have should be used instead of could of could of is a mistake please use could have instead okay so one more example sentence i could have explained better effect versus effect so the next mistake that many native speakers make is with word the words affect with an e and effect with an a um while there are some maybe less common differences between how these words are used especially the word effect with an e in most situations we can consider the difference of these two words to be in grammatical function the word effect with an e is typically typically used as a noun as in a side effect or the effect of something when we use effect with an a it's typically used as a verb in a sentence like this change is going to affect my life or i don't want to affect your family for example when we use it as a verb we should use a the a spelling when we use a noun we should use the e spelling yes there are some situations where effect with an e is used as a verb it's in let's see for example in situations where we want to explain a change occurring or something which causes a change we say to effect change meaning causing something or in order to do something but again that uses as um not as common as what i talked about before the noun and the verb differentiation of these two um so if you like you can look more into that but in general uh consider e as your noun form of effect and a as your verb form of effect example sentences the drug had a strong effect the drug affected my body there's a lot of so okay so the next mistake that people make is they begin a sentence with theirs there is the contracted form of there is they say there's a lot of and then they complete the statement with the plural form of a noun like there's a lot of people in here or there's a lot of blah blah like cookies in the kitchen the problem here is that we're beginning the sentence with theirs there is the singular form there is so that means that the noun that follows that phrase also needs to be in the singular there's uh there is uh something we can't use the plural form here um so many native speakers maybe they don't think about the next part of the sentence and they begin their sentence with there's something something something this is a very common mistake actually if you're using the plural form of a noun you need to use their art instead there are a lot of people in the room there are a lot of cookies in the kitchen for example so think about plural noun and the plural form of is or are in the singular as well so this is a very common one be careful of that vague use of pronouns the next one is a huge problem in writing so people are sometimes very vague vague means unclear about using uh like pronouns him or her or he or she especially in cases where there might be many people involved in a situation so if for example i say he gave the book to her after he finished reading it it's like how many people are involved in this situation i said he gave the book to her after he finished reading it there are two he's in that sentence are they the same person we don't know so it can be very important to identify all the actors in a sentence or in a paragraph to prevent confusion so if it is a situation like that where i say something like he gave the book to her after he finished it but there are two different men involved in that sentence i might say like mike gave her the book after gary finished it for example or if uh it's mike the whole way through i could say mike gave mary the book once he had finished reading it for example we could change the sentence slightly if we really want to make it clear but just make your um all of your pronouns should be very very clear to your reader if you use he and she and it's not clear who you're talking about you can really confuse the person listening or the person reading so please be careful of this faulty parallelism the next one is faulty parallelism or in other words um it's a grammatical function where all the items in a list usually in a list or um in bullet points as well all the items in those lists are in those categories should have the same grammatical type of expression so by that i mean if you're using a noun phrase for everything all the items should be a noun you should use a noun phrase for everything if you're using verbs or if you're using a complete sentence or depending on your situation the grammar of each one of those items in the list should be the same so sometimes people will say for example i like cooking and reading and watch a movie the problem here is i've used cooking reading so these are two like i'm using the gerund form so they're essentially like nouns so cooking and reading and watch a movie so watch a movie sound similar like these are three hobbies i like to watch a movie for example it sounds kind of similar we don't have a problem in communication really but grammatically watch a movie is different from cooking or reading so to fix this we say i like cooking reading and watching movies so just make sure that everything that you're introducing in your list matches grammatically and this won't be a problem for you um so yeah if you're using all nouns make sure you use all nouns so just just be aware of that that's something that many native speakers run into as a problem sometimes so those are 10 mistakes that native speakers make have you ever noticed a native speaker making a mistake it happens it really does happen from time to time let us know in the comments or if there's another mistake that you feel that you make a lot let us know too and maybe we can talk more about 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