STOP 🚫 - These Common English Mistakes are Absolutely WRONG!
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- Опубликовано: 18 июн 2024
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0:00 Introduction
01:15 FREE PDF and QUIZ
01:59 Pronunciation
02:35 The
04:22 Controversy
04:43 Either and Neither
05:12 Envelope
05:16 Garage
05:25 Privacy
05:35 Finance
05:43 Data
05:47 Zebra
06:00 Harassment
06:07 Often
06:38 Grammar
06:55 I’m good
08:30 Less vs Fewer
10:21 Whom or Who
11:44 Prepositions in their Proper Places
12:34 They and their are no longer only plural!
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14:15 Courses
14:34 OUTRO
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I tried to keep my cool in this one 😅 📝GET THE FREE LESSON PDF here 👉🏼 bit.ly/mistakesPDF
Please never stop uploading videos.😢I can't imagine how my language journey will look like in future without you.Goatcy❤.By the way,can u correct my sentences?
Wow. a beautiful lady.
@@skyy223😅9.00 7:36 😊
12:34 The usage of they and their is also used in our language.
Example in the way of our usage: "Maybe, someone left (their) umbrella" however the pronoun their is referred to a singular or plural. ✨
PLEASE use the word THAT after SO!! 1:30 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I an a fluent English speaker but I enjoy your videos because I want to learn the Queen's English. I am a New England native.
Am*
@@eduardossesariza7970am*
It's a typo losers! 😂
@@Inke7It's a typo, losers! 😂*
Relax sharks it was just a mistyped one
When it comes to hassle, nothing can beat ''conscious, consciousness, conscience, conscientious''...
Lucy has stolen my heart with her approach to teaching and language using❤
"Whom" and "who" reminded me of that scene of Friends where Monica says about Ross: "I know! Is it because he's always correcting people's grammar? 'Whom, whom!' Sometimes it's 'who'!"
I believe that cases, such precisely explained, can be barely found in any study books. Thank you Lucy.
You can say either either or either.
Thanks a lot. I often wondered about the correct pronunciation of either and neither. And "they" referring to singular persons of unknown gender is quite helpful. In my studies in school back in the 80ies, it used to be "his or her".
Thank you so much for this lesson! Such a relief! I have to admit I used to be a stickler for "whom", but I realised long ago that it has become outdated. Somehow I am fond of "whom" and still silently correct it in my mind if someone says "who" instead. But I would never correct anyone on this as there is nothing to correct anymore. But I miss it.
I will continue to use it, even if nobody else does.
I am beyond satisfied that you settled the who vs. whom dissention. I have ALWAYS struggled to comprehend the rules of proper who and whom usage. I would hear others use the term whom and immediately feel left out and segregated from the secret society that harvested the capabilities of knowing when and how to use the word. I'm still scuffling with the comprehension aspect, but at least I've got this video to catch me 😂 when I fall.
absolutely in love with the way you framed the sentence mate 😂
I may be the only one, but I’m trying yo bring “whom” back into normal use - at least in writing - because I feel it sounds more elegant. I can thank my grandfather for tuning my ear to be able to instinctively tell when to use who and whom. But I get that for those who didn’t learn much grammar in school, or who speak English as a second language, it’s a big ask to be able to correctly use who and whom in conversation.
@@user-no2mz9hl4f The answer is don't use 'whom' in conversation, but by all means use it in writing if you want to. Writing tends to use more formal English than conversation, plus, if you're uncertain about usage, you have more time to think about it.
@@peterw29 I know how to use ‘whom’ in spoken English; my grandfather was big on grammar, and taught me well. I will continue to use the word when applicable.
I love using "whom" when it should be "who", to comically point out that "whom" is stuffy and (more importantly) obsolescent
I truly enjoyed today's video! Well done Lucy. You make English easier for me. It's really fun to learn English in this way.☺️ Thanks a ton. Learning new things everyday.❤
Mistakes depend on how we decide to approach a language: descriptive approach od prescriptive approach. I live by this rule, given by my linguistic professor during my first year at university 10 years ago now
sometimes i listen to bbc for listening skill and i cannot follow them for a long period. But, when i listen to you for listening skill, your voice feels like breeze in my face and i enjoy that. Thank you.
You're such a sight for sore eyes, Lucy - and your never fading smile is the icing on the cake ❤ I only watch you once in a while but I should do it more often. Thank you for doing what you're doing.
🎉Thanks for fantastic lesson which wasn't taught in our schools.
English seems to be very easy with you 🧡🧡🧡.
Hi !!!!
@@Willpowersfan Hello !!!
Thank you for the informative lesson. It's interesting to see how languages evolve over time.
Thanks a lot for your videos! Not only educational but also entertaining the way you do them! Kind regards from Austria!
That was a great leason. I like all episodes that I watched from your channel. Watching your lessons is a part of daily routine these days.
Gosh, thanks so much Lucy for this lesson! It's absolutely appreciated 👍
Thanks Lucy for this useful video.
ABSOLUTELY Brilliant ! I'll save this link to forward to my 'critics' when they 'CORRECT' my flexibly perfect English ( in my mind, at any rate ) ... you hit SO many of my points exactly ...
I'm so thankful for discovering your channel, just the amount of information i learnt from this video, it's really awe-inspiring
I heard once that the who/whom punctiliousness, the antipathy towards ending sentences with prepositions, and similar debates, was caused by 19th century academics, trying to understand English in terms of the grammatical structures of the classical Latin which they'd all been trained in. Snobbery and emulation did the rest.
Awesome! Thanks again, Lucy.
Thanks a lot, Lucy, for this outstanding lesson, very clarifying.
Funny how it took me so long to LEARN how to put the preposition at the end of a sentence, to then be told it could be a mistake 😂
Thanks for the excellent lesson!
Love your energy and explanation
Glad you pointed out that very often people include omitted/implied words and phrases in their grammatical considerations/"grammatical picture". E.g., 10 items or less [than that [amount/number]]. But they say "10 or fewer items" without hesitation.
Thanks for keeeping your grammar up to date!
Wonderful Lucy, so many thanks!
We Love You Lucy for your Teachings and Content.
❤❤❤❤ Thanks once again
Fantastic lesson! All the very best
I am from Russia. Here in schools teachers always teach us to pronounce often without t, finaaaaance, zebra with american variant and "the" always in short form, so I knew about "theeeeee" pronunciation variant only from youtube videos.
The only thing that I am sure in is the fact that english lessons in russian schools have come from USSR and the way they teach us didn't changed for 20 or even 30 years.
this needed to be said
You're pretty awesome Lucy ! Thank you for such beneficial videos ❤️
Great episode, Lucy! Here's a suggestion for covering a tricky English quandary that I ran into just the other day. It would be helpful to both non-English speakers and native speakers needing a refresher as to which type of verb to use after a singular noun which represents a group of individuals. Nouns such as "team," "staff," "congregation," or "family," to name a few. For example which circumstances would you use "the team was..." versus "the team were..."
I found that the MLA style guide had a good explanation of when to use a singular or plural verb, but I think you'd do a great job making this the subject of a video if you haven't already. Cheers!
You would always use "was" after "team", "family" or any collective noun/subject. The team is a whole, and if you *were* to say "the family were vacationing...", that paradoxically refers to the members of the family, separately, even though your subject is singular. Alternately, after mentioning a family in a previous sentence, could say "THEY were vacationing" as a kind of compromise, because now "they" is understood as the family.
@@kylefrank638 Not always. The police can have both singular and plural forms of verbs after. But in reality, people use whatever they like, even after staff.
@@kylefrank638 That’s a good example of proper American usage. However, one family was vacationing while another family were on holiday.
@@isolamarthat doesn’t make any sense to me!
@@cosmodocfirst, which one makes no sense the singular "was" or the plural "were".
Second, on Fox's coverage of the World Cup, even the American natives speaking announcers use "were" when discussing teams or describing action.
Great lesson! Always so helpful.
Me encanto la lección, muchas gracias 😊
Thank you Lucy this really helped me alot to improve my pronunciation and vocabulary
I love "whom"... 😔
Lucy, as a native English speaker, this was brilliant! Thank you x
I just love the way you teach and I love your pronunciation! ❤❤❤
THANK YOU SO MUCH LUCY.
This lesson never been teaching in my class
Great Lucy!My favourite english teacher .... the lesson is fantastic❤
I don't think I was ever taught the difference between less and fewer. Thanks 😊
I'm late, but thank you so much for that lesson! It was so helpful, I've always struggled with quite a few of those...
Thank you, my teacher, for this beautiful explanation.
I love your teaching style teacher Lucy
*Another fantastic English lesson from the magnificent Teacher! 🥰🥰🥰*
*Thanks a million, my cute Lucy! Fortunately, I don't already have these kind of mistakes just because you've taught* *me how to utilize English correctly! I'm eternally grateful to you!🙏🙏🙏*
it is better to say: use English
Utilize - yuk.
Hello dear Lucy, one of the best teachers ever, it was a fabulous lesson I finally learned difference in usage between fewer and less, I would always use them interchangeably. however, after this amazing lesson I learnt this and many more that all this time I was thinking that I was wrong. And again thank you very much for making this amazing free videos for helping me and millions of other students who doesn't have the money to attend at English classes with their English learning journey. Good luck dear Lucy.
A great teacher.
Great Lucy.... I've been enjoying your classes for sometime
Hi Lucy, thank you so much for another brilliant video of yours 🤗❤ I have a question that has been bugging me for quite some time. Would it be possible to pronounce the word "subsequently" in more than one way?
"Linguistic snobbery "
I love how you pronounce it.. even when I didn't knew the meaning, I would knew it now, by your pronouncing
Thank you Lucy. So useful and confident-making!
*confidence inspiring (with or without a hyphen)
Thank you - so glad to have found your channel
This is such a lovely video. Thank you so much.
Good lesson Lucy. 🙂
Very interesting, thank you!
The general rule of thumb I use is to distinguish whether it is for casual or formal (like those government documents) communication.
I support you as a teacher
Thanks and love from France.
Very interesting. Cool, Lucy. Thanks.
Hello, I'm from the Philippines, English is a second or third language for most of us, depending on where you grew up. Anyway, found this particular video quite interesting. Realized that I pronounce some words the British way and some the American way. That should give you a clue on my education. Thank you!
Your education or your travels?
@@RingsLoreMaster my education
Thanks Ms. Lucy.❤
Thank you for Reassuring me about how to speak English correctly but reasonably.
Thank you. Very helpful❤
Wow,, this is SO PERFECT!!! Thanks for making this video.
Love both, your style as well as the content .. they is beautiful ...❤❤
Yes, the who/whom thing gets my goat too. This is a remnant of the Old English case system, where an -m ending indicated the dative form of "who" (nom. "hwa", dat. "hwaem" or something like that, IIRC). But apart from our pronominal system, the old case system is virtually gone in ME dialects. Even native speakers like myself can't keep it straight and use it "incorrectly". And as you note, when it becomes what people actually say, it's no longer "incorrect".... In fact, I can't remember the last time I used "whom" in actual speech at all....
Thanks for your fdf. What a gift 😊
I am a rule stickler, but I like what you say about pronunciation and grammar. We should try to adapt to the speakers that surround us, so that we can understand each other.
I agree !
Hello Lucy, Thanks for a nice video.
I would love to hear your opinion on "lay" vs "lie" It took me two years to get it sorted out, but very few people make the distinction any longer.
Notice the object that the verb lay needs. "I lay the table" ( i.e. cause knves, forks , plates etc, to lay on the table ) A hen lays eggs i.e. causes eggs to lie on the ground in the nest. . We laid the carpet yesterday. i'e' cause the carpet to lie on the floor. If you use "lay" for yourself you need the object too " Now I lay me down to rest! " { for "me" in modern English we'd say "myself"} " He lays him down to sleep". ( notice the object pronoun 'him' ) is an old fashiioned style. We would now say "He lies down to sleep" and NOT "He lays down " unless you want to ignore all that I have been saying and insist "the modern language is changing so get used to it."
Not native speaker here, but isn't this just transitive vs. non-transitive?
Something lays something, but something lies, period.
To lay is to put something else in a typically flat position on top top off something, whereas to lie means to be in such a position oneself.
To lay means something like "to make something lie".
@@landsgevaerspot on
Thanks. Enjoyed that one.
Hey Lucy! Can You please make a video on Phonetics and transcription. Looking forward for it! By the way this video is great. Thank You!
İt was really informative,thanks a lot Lucy
I really love your lessons! ❤
Love watching your video! ❤
Lucy, thanks for sharing a comedy-like lesson, which is not only enriching our knowledge but also entertaining us a lot.
The unique style, the irresistible beauty, and the fine sense of humor, combined with a charming smile, that’s amazing!🌹❤️
Ugh.
Spot on
Habibi absolutely
data can also also pronounced with a short a sound. i often flip flop between the long and the short a pronunciation. this is my first video, so i didn't see the one on prepositions, but in order for it to be used as such it, much consist of a prepositional phrase, otherwise its part of speech is an adverb.
Great video! What about "to whom"? Saying "to who" won't ever sound right to me if "whom" is on the decline. My favorite irritant is people saying "She gave it to Sam and I" when it should be "Sam and me".
Thank you Lucy
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I LOVE this video !! And not surprisingly.. know-it-all people don't know as much as they think they do 😃
I feel i learn so much with one of your videos , than i would by taking a couple of lessons with any other teacher🎉
Thank you!!!
I like so much your accent Lucy and I think that video was very necessary.... Greetings.
Great video!
Thank you beautiful teacher❤
I'm surprised that many of these things were taught to me in school already. And I'm German and English is my second language.
Still I'm really conscious of the way I'm speaking when I'm with my nativ speaking friends.
Brilliant!
Excellent 👏
I love you Lucy! It was eyeopening the comment on they and their... I only have one query: in the sentence "I haven't been there before", why is "before" considered a preposition? Wouldn't it be an adverb? Greetings from Argentina! I love your content!
Loveeeeee this lesson, thank you so much. Greetings from Chile.
Great lesson ❤
Thank you so much!!!
Excellent!
I enjoy your speaking.your accent is so clear to understand👌👌👌 .