15 most common mistakes in English

Even if your English is perfect, you are not safe from these pitfalls.

We are so accustomed to the rules of our native language, which automatically apply them to other languages. A grammar is very different. As a result, we make mistakes - funny, or stupid, or even indecent

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1. I feel myself («I feel») Wrong: That's right:
In English, the verb after the feel («feel») is not put reflexive pronoun myself («self") - native English and so understand what you say about his health. They just say: I feel well \ I feel sick \ I feel happy.

If you say «I feel myself», then for the English-speaking ... it sounds strange. They'll think you're telling them about physical contact with himself or touching himself.


2. Enough («Enough») Wrong: That's right:
In English, the correct order of words is more important than Russian. Place the word enough in the proposal depend on what part of speech it belongs: adverb, adjective or noun.

If the enough refers to an adjective or adverb, that is after the verb meaning:

- Do you think he's old enough to watch that movie?
- We've done enough today.

Old («adult») - adjective, today («Today") - the adverb.

If the enough refers to the noun, it stands before the verb:

- We had enough money to buy a ticket.


3. Normal («OK») Wrong: That's right:
In English, we do not usually use the word normal («normal») to talk about their mood or the last day. Native English say fine or ok . And the word normal they perceive, rather, in the sense of "average, normal," or just "normal».

Imagine that you ask, "How are you, how are you?" And you say, "I'm normal." Agree, sounds ridiculous: if you are trying to convince the recipient that you are a normal person, not a strange or even crazy. Perhaps a good time to express their normal world, but you are certainly not talking about it.


4. Scientist, scholar («Scientific») Wrong: That's right:
Both words and scientist , and scholar - translated to English as "scientist", but they have different value.

Scientist - is an expert in precision (chemistry, physics, mathematics, biology) or social (psychology, sociology, political science) sciences.

Scholar - is an expert in a particular field of knowledge. He is well versed in the subject matter, because it examines. Scholar - a specialist in areas such as history, art and languages. Also called clever student who receives a scholarship - scholarship .

The difference in the fact that a scientist to study the subject uses scientific methods - building a hypothesis, conducting experiments, making conclusions. A scholar is usually complete without this.


5. Prepositions Wrong: That's right:
In the study of the English language are often confused in the Russian-speaking pretexts or even lowered them. We think that the prepositions in English sentences should be the same as they would be in Russian. But it is not. To avoid confusion, you just have to learn the most common expression where the preposition is closely related to the verb.

• Depends on - «depends». Tired of - «tired». To divide into - «divided into».
  
  • To wait for someone - «wait for someone». To graduate from school - «to finish school." < /
  • To listen to someone / music - «listen to someone / music». To be afraid of someone / something - "afraid of someone / something». To explain to someone - «explain to someone». To answer a question - «to answer the question" (note: no excuse, but with the article).
    Coatings (table, wall, floor, boards, roof, shelves): on .
    - For example: on the roof , on the table . Technology (computer, TV, radio, screen, DVD, hard disk, CD): on .
    - On this DVD . Public transport (train, bus, tram, plane, ship, ferry): on .
    - On the bus , on the ship . Inside the physical object / structure (the book, pocket, drawer number): in .
    - In his pocket , in a box . Places (office, stadium, shop, supermarket, station, Theatre, Park): at / in .
    - In the street , at the station .
    6. How and What («How" and "What») Wrong: That's right:
    Russian speakers often confuse the question words how and what , asking in English: "What's it called?" They are trying to start a sentence with the usual "how to» - how < / em>. But in the English use is what . It is necessary to remember.
    
    
    7. City Wrong: That's right:
    It is often said only the name (Moscow, New York, London) and do not add to the word "city". If, however, it is important to clarify that this is the city and nothing else, use the structure the city of .
    
    For example: the city of London , the city of Boston , the city of Moscow .
    
    In rare cases, the word "city" part of the name: New York City , Salt Lake City , Mexico City . Sometimes it makes it clear that this particular city and not another geographical area with the same name:
    
    
    • I grew up in a small town in the state of New York, but now I live in New York City. Although I have lived in Moscow for several years, my parents still live in a small town outside of the city but still in Moscow Oblast. I visited Salt Lake City this summer.
      (Singular and plural) Wrong: That's right:
      And in Russian and English languages ​​have countable nouns that can be easily counted (chair, apple, glass), and uncountable, which can not count without additional units (water in liters, the number of minutes the rice in grams). But often countable nouns in English are innumerable.
      
      An example of uncountable nouns:
      
      - Advice, research, knowledge, accommodation, baggage, equipment, furniture, garbage, information, luggage, money, news, pasta, progress, travel, work.
      
      If you want to use uncountable nouns plural, use additional words: piece, glass, chunk.
      
      For example:
      
      
      • We just bought several new pieces of equipment for our lab. I'll have three glasses of lemonade, please. She cut off a large chuck of meat and fed it to her dog.
        - < That's right: Thank God, we have each other.
        - < Wrong: Thanks Gods
        
        - < That's right: No problem!
        - < Wrong: No problems!
        
        - < That's right: We have no comment about the case.
        - < Wrong: No comments.
        
        
        9. Possibility and Opportunity Wrong: That's right:
        Russian speakers are often told possibility , when talk about their opportunity to do anything. But English has the word opportunity , also means "opportunity". What's the word you use depends on the context.
        
        Possibility - is something hypothetical that may or may not be true.
        
        Opportunity - is a favorable circumstances, that allow us to do something or give a chance to act.
        
        
        • There is a possibility that it will rain tomorrow, so you will have an opportunity to use your new umbrella. There is a possibility that we will have enough funding for another research assistant position. If so, you will have an opportunity to apply for this position.
          Wrong: That's right:
          Say they say when they want to recite the words of another person. Tell use when they want something to ask, ask or inform someone about something. Verb tell is accompanied by a direct object: tell us / him / her / the audience .
          
          
          • At lunch John told his coworkers about his business trip to China. John said that the business trip to China went very well.
            
            • Say yes or no, a few words, something. Tell a story, a lie, a secret, a joke, the truth.
              Wrong: That's right:
              Learn and teach are often confused because both words mean "to teach." But in English, their values ​​are quite different.
              
              Learn - is to learn on their own. Student teaching homework, girl learning to play the guitar, and so on.
              
              Teach - is to teach someone. The teacher teaches students the finer points of the language.
              
              
              • «I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening ». - Larry King.
                Wrong: That's right:
                If a person wants to say that is fluent in a foreign language, it uses the word fluent , and not free . Yes, free means "free", but more its value - for "free". And if free after the noun ( smoke-free, car-free, alcohol-free ), this means that the action is prohibited.
                
                T his is the smoke-free bar. If you want to smoke, you must go outside.
                
                
                13. Do and Make Wrong: That's right:
                In the Russian language, both the verb - do and make - translated as "do". But they have different value.
                
                Do - for daily activities or work, which will result in something intangible, something that can not be touched:
                
                
                • Do homework, do the dishes, do the laundry, do a job, do the shopping. Do is used when generalize, but did not specify. Often there are a number of words something, nothing, anything, everything :
                  
                  
                  • He has done nothing all day. She would do anything for her Mom . < em> Is there something I can do for you? Make use when they talk about the creation of the material, tangible things:
                    
                    
                    • Make food, make a cup of tea, make clothes, make a mess. make < / em> and do , which simply need to remember:
                      
                      Make money, do someone a favor, do business, make a decision, do good, make a plan.
                      
                      
                      14. Expensive and dear («Dear») Wrong: That's right:
                      Russian word "expensive" is translated into English as expensive or dear , again depending on the context. Both words mean something valuable to humans, but they have a different meaning.
                      
                      Dear - is something of value in the emotional or personal sense:
                      
                      
                      • This necklace is not very expensive, but, since it belonged to my grandmother, it is very dear to me. Expensive < / em> - is something of value in financial terms, for example, an expensive purchase:
                        
                        
                        • I wish I had not dropped my new iPhone in the toilet. It was really expensive!
                          Wrong: That's right:
                          Russian speakers are often habit say he or she when it is necessary to use it .
                          
                          In English the personal pronouns he or she apply to humans. It is appropriate to say he or she about dogs, cats or other animals whose sex is known. Often we call so pets that we love or that we like, for us they are not faceless it , ie he or she - «it "or" it is ».
                          
                          
                          • I have fond memories of my dog, Spot. He was a great dog.
                            
                            • Look at that sports car! Is not she a beauty? «God bless America,
                              Land that I love,
                              Stand beside her, and guide her
                              Through the night with a light from above ».
                              Irving Berlin
                              Female: women, girl, mother, daughter, aunt, niece, nun, goddess, empress, queen, princess, heroine, actress, waitress, lioness, cow.
                              
                              Male: man, boy, father, son, uncle, nephew, monk, god, emperor, king, prince, hero, actor, waiter, lion, bull.
                              
                              In modern English words like waiter («waiter»), actor («actor»), hero («Hero") are used for male and for female. If you need to describe exactly the floor, you can add the word "man" or "woman»:
                              
                              
                              • In Shakespeare's time women could not be actor and play on stage, so all female roles were played by actor men. hero («Hero") is not only the hero of the book. The hero - a person, real or fictional, are showing great courage or going to sacrifice for the common good.
                                
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