Common English Mistakes
For the past 6 months, I’ve been noting down the most common mistakes I see English learners make in preparation for this episode.
I go through them one by one and give examples from my own life to give you some context for each one and show you how they’re used.
Some of these are simple mistakes, and others look at the subtle differences between two similar phrases.
Mistakes from this Episode
- 02:56 Until Now / So Far
- 06:50 We are four / There are four of us
- 08:59 In the end / At the end
- 12:17 I have 20 / I am 20 years old
- 13:47 Due to I / Due to me
- 17:04 Thanks god / Thank god
- 18:15 I didn’t do anything / I didn’t do nothing
- 19:58 Put / Putted
- 22:26 High / Tall
- 26:07 By myself / On my own
What words do you find hardest in English? Let me know in the comments!
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Hi Micheal, I have a question: I got confused about using tall for mountains, so I googled wither we use for mountains tall or high and it turns out in Cambridge dictionary we use high we say for example: We have high mountains in the north of the country. Could we use both? what the difference in this case?
Great question, Raneem! In some cases, like with mountains, we can use both! Perhaps i should have mentioened this in the episode, but I was also concerned about overcomplicating this example.
Tall looks at the distance from the bottom of the mountain to the top.
High looks at the distance from the top of the mountain to the sea level.
So there’s a subtle difference here. In the case of mountains, they can both be used. To avoid confusion, I would recommend using “Tall” for cases like this unless you’re confident with the difference. Sadly, there are many exceptions to ‘rules’ in English.
Hope this helps!