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00:00Stop making these mistakes in English. Today I'm going to show you five of the most common mistakes
00:09that English learners make and together we will fix them. I need to tell you about something
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01:50First, can you spot two mistakes in this sentence? It depend of the weather. It depend of the weather.
02:03Two mistakes to identify here. Well, firstly, it should be, it depends with an S on the end. Depends.
02:14Remember, with he, she, and it, we usually add S to the verb. The second mistake,
02:22the preposition of is also incorrect. Which preposition should it be?
02:30It should be on. It depends on. Now, I strongly recommend learning this phrase together as a chunk.
02:40Learn all three words together. It depends on. It depends on the weather. Make sure you use the
02:48voiced Z sound. Z on. It depends on. This phrase can be followed by a noun like weather or a
02:57clause,
02:58starting with a word like how, who, or where. For example, it depends on who is coming. In informal English,
03:09it's common to drop on before WH words. For example, it depends where you're going. In formal English,
03:19you should always use on or upon. That's another option, though it's less common and more formal.
03:27It depends upon how much funding the project receives. In answers to questions, we can simply say
03:36it depends or even just depends in casual conversation, missing the subject altogether.
03:45Are you coming tonight? It depends. I'll see how I feel. Or, hmm, depends. I'm pretty tired.
03:55Okay, next. Mistake number two. Let's look at fun versus funny.
04:02My students tend to use funny when they actually mean fun. Which of these sentences is more likely?
04:13My holiday in Greece was really funny and I didn't want it to end. Or, we watched a comedy show
04:21yesterday. It was really funny. The second one is more likely. Funny means making you laugh,
04:29like a comedy show. The first is possible. You could have a really funny holiday. Maybe you laughed
04:37the whole way through. But the second is more likely. Another example, Stephen's so funny.
04:44He's always making us laugh. Now, in informal English, fun is used as an adjective to describe
04:52something that you enjoy. So, you could say, my holiday in Greece was really fun. Fun is more often
04:59used as an uncountable noun, meaning that something or someone is entertaining or enjoyable. You might say,
05:07my holiday in Greece was so much fun. Or, we had great fun together at the fair. You'll often hear,
05:16have fun, but we never say, have funny. Okay? Have fun means enjoy yourself.
05:25Are you ready for common mistake number three? It's a question I often hear my students ask.
05:31Are you fine? Is it incorrect? Well, grammatically, it's okay. But it's not something British English
05:41speakers tend to say when asking how someone is or how they feel. In other varieties of English,
05:48it might be more common, so listen out for it. But in British English, what do we say instead?
05:56We usually just say, how are you? How are you doing? Or how is it going? People often say,
06:04are you fine? Because the common answer to how are you is, I'm fine, thanks. But we only tend to
06:14use
06:14fine in positive answers rather than questions. Here's a correct example. How's your wrist? I heard
06:22you sprained it. It's fine now, thanks. Another similar common mistake is, I hope you're fine. So,
06:30I see that a lot in emails. People usually want to say, I hope you're well. As in, hi Lucy,
06:37I hope
06:38you're well. I'm writing to say, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's also correct to say, are you okay?
06:44If you're asking if someone is feeling okay, or you're worried that they don't feel okay. Are you
06:50fine is just not something we tend to say. Number four, can you correct this super common mistake?
06:58You have to listen your teacher. Listen to. You have to listen to your teacher. We listen to
07:08somebody or something. We can't just listen somebody. An example. I love listening to podcasts
07:15while I'm exercising. Or, sorry, I wasn't listening to you. Not listening music or listen you. I can't
07:24tell someone to listen to me. Now, I understand where the confusion comes from. We do hear something
07:32or hear someone. We don't use to there. For example, I can't hear you. Or, can you hear the bird
07:42song?
07:42So, we hear something or someone, but we listen to something or someone. Now, our final mistake
07:51is to do with confusing the verbs to lose, to miss, and to waste. First, a note on pronunciation. It's
08:02loose. Loose with a long oo sound and a voiced z at the end. Not loose. Loose, meaning not tight,
08:14is spelt with two o's. Loose with the z at the end is spelt with one o. Okay. Now, I
08:23want you to use
08:24each of these verbs, lose, miss, and waste to complete the gaps. Once each. Okay? One,
08:33I can't believe we... Our flight yesterday. Two, we were late because we... A lot of time. Scraping ice
08:46off the car. And three, every day she... So much time scrolling on social media. I can relate to that.
08:59The first one should be missed. The second, lost. And the third should be wastes. Let's look at lose
09:11and miss as a pair first. So many of my students tell me that they lost their flight when they
09:18mean
09:18the flight took off or left without them. To say you lose your flight is a mistake. We use miss
09:26when
09:27we arrive too late for something or we are too late for something. We miss trains, planes, and buses.
09:35We miss the start of films, and we miss deadlines, and all kinds of other things. Some examples.
09:42We miss the beginning of the film because we miss the bus. Now, lose just isn't used with this meaning.
09:49But lose time and waste time can both be correct. And if you look in learners dictionaries,
09:58you will often see waste defined as lose and vice versa. There is a lot of crossover.
10:05But sometimes one is more appropriate than the other. I'm going to do this part as a voiceover
10:11so you can see these verbs side by side. Here is something I hear a lot. She loses a lot
10:19of time
10:19on social media. What they really mean is she wastes time. If you waste time, you use your time badly.
10:29There's a sense that you are in control of how you spend your time,
10:32and you choose to do something unproductive. Another example. Don't waste time arguing with
10:39him. He's already made up his mind. Don't spend your time doing something unproductive.
10:45We'll look at our example sentence with lose again. We were late because we lost a lot of time
10:52scraping ice off the car. Were they using their time badly when they were scraping ice off their car?
10:58No. It was a productive thing to do. You can't see if your car is covered in ice. If you
11:05lose time,
11:07time is taken away from you. Perhaps because of delays, problems or accidents. The situation is often
11:15out of your control. Here's another example. We lost time when the computer system crashed
11:21and had to be restarted. Let's see a couple of pairs of sentences to cement the difference.
11:28They lost time during the meeting because the video link kept cutting out. This was out of their
11:35control. They wasted time discussing things that weren't on the agenda. This was within someone's control.
11:44And another. We lost half an hour during the flight due to turbulence. No one's fault.
11:51The passengers wasted 10 minutes complaining instead of trying to rebook their missed flight.
11:57That was the passengers' decision. Okay, let's switch back to the video again.
12:03So those were the five common mistakes. Let's see how much you remember with a quiz. Some of these
12:10sentences contain a mistake. If they do, correct it. Number one. I arrived late and lost my train.
12:24This is incorrect. It should be I missed my train. If we arrive too late, we miss something.
12:30Two. It's so fun to try new recipes together every weekend.
12:41No mistake. It's so fun is fine. But not it's so funny, unless it's really hilarious. It doesn't
12:48really work with the context here. Remember, we often use fun as a noun. So how might you change the
12:54sentence to do that? You could say, it's so much fun or it's great fun. Number three. What time will
13:04you arrive?
13:05It depend of the traffic.
13:12So two mistakes here. It should be it depends on. That's the right verb agreement and the correct
13:20preposition. Four. I'm listening to Taylor Swift's new album.
13:31Incorrect. Listening to her new album. We always listen to something or someone. And five.
13:39We lost 20 minutes changing a tire when we got a flat.
13:49This one's fine. You lose time when doing something useful like changing a tire.
13:55Something that was out of your control. You had to change that tire. That definitely wouldn't be a
14:00waste of time unless there's nothing wrong with the original tire. So how did you do in that quiz?
14:06Let me know your score out of five in the comments. And let me know what other mistakes would you
14:11like
14:11to stop making in English? You might see your ideas appear in a future video like this one.
14:16And don't forget to download the PDF mistakes guide. You can scan the QR code there or click
14:22the link in the description. There are lots of activities there. I will see you in the next video.
14:27Bye.
14:41Bye.