Name: The 10 WORST English mistakes you're making!
Uploaded: 2018-02-22T05:06:29.000Z
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In the next few minutes you'll find out if you make any of the 10 worst mistakes in English.

Now, even though it seems like I'm joking, it's actually quite serious.

These mistakes could make you fail an exam or a job interview, they could make you lose

a sale or a client, they could also ruin your presentation, or worse still, your reputation.

You really don't want to be making these mistakes.

And luckily, you found this lesson, so at the end of this lesson you will know exactly

what to do to fix these mistakes in case you make them.

And if you don't make them, then you can feel really good and confident about the English

Now, I should say that the first five are all written mistakes, that is if you say these

things, nobody will be able to tell what you're saying, but if you write them down then they

In other words, they are spelling mistakes, but the spelling mistake is based on a grammatical

mistake that you have misunderstood something in English.

But I'm here to explain it to you, so no worries.

Number one: "Your late", "Y-o-u-r" or "You're late".

Now you see, they sound the same, but this one is written "y-o-u-'-r-e".

Have you seen this mistake on the internet?

I see it all the time, but not by you I hope.

The first one: "Your late", "Y-o-u-r" or the second one?

"You are", it's a contraction or short form of "You are", and the other one: "Y-o-u-r"

It means this is your book, this is your brother, etc.

Second one: "Who's that?", "W-h-o-'-s" or: "Whose that?", "W-h-o-s-e"?

Well, this one is correct, and this is wrong

because: "Who's that?" is short for: "Who is", "Who is that?"

Again, it's a contraction or a short form. Right?

And this one: "Whose" is a possessive word to ask: "Who does this belong to?"

Number three: "It's time to go." or "Its time to go."

Again, remember they sound exactly the same, they are what are called homonyms, but don't

You need to know how to spell, so is it like this or like this?

This is, again, a contraction for: "It is", right?

This "Its" with no apostrophe is the possessive form of "It", it shows that something belongs

Next "There here", "Their here", or "They're here".

Again, they sound the same, but what's the correct spelling?

This one: "There" is the opposite of "Here", and "T-h-e-i-r", "Their" is the possessive

form of "They", it means something belongs to them, and that's not what you want in this example.

The last one here is: "Did you lose this?" or "Did you loose this?"

Now, some people don't pronounce it correctly so they end up sounding the same, they actually

pronounce differently, and spell differently, and the meaning is completely different.

So "Did you lose this?" or "Did you loose this?"

The first one "lose" is a verb because that's

Okay, like something is lost, you lost it.

And "loose" means not tight, like: "His pants were very loose", not tight.

So, these are the first five, these are mistakes that you can make in writing, and if you made

As I said, afterwards I'll tell you where you can go to watch a video on whichever one

you got wrong because I've recorded lessons on each of these.

Now, let's look at five mistakes that people sometimes make while speaking.

Well, the answer is this, this is the correct one: "You speak English well", because "well"

It describes how you speak: "You speak well."

And "good", in this case is wrong, because "good" is an adjective.

So, for example, you could say: "You speak good English" because then "good" describes English.

Next one, number seven: "He's doing his homework." or "He's making his homework".

"do" and "make", so many, many expressions with "do" and "make".

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