When you study the grammar of any language, you're really getting
down to the nitty-gritty. That's another way to say you're looking
at the details. And a lot of times even advanced
english learners or even fluent native speakers
sometimes make mistakes when it comes to grammar either
in speaking or writing in English. Hey everybody welcome back to my channel
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In this video, there are two parts the first part is a quick seven question
test.
Yes, that's right. Let's test how your grammar skills
are with some of the common grammar mistakes that we see.
After the test, we'll go through each one and you can see how you did.
For this test, I'm going to show you seven different
sentences. Your job is to find the error or errors in each
one. If it helps you to write them down first, this would be a good place to
pause the video to get paper and pencil.
Are you ready? let's try it. Here's the first one. I could have gone
running if I had woken up early. number two: Their were so many people
at the restaurant. number three: John's
and Sasha's new house had a big backyard.
number four: Its not going to rain today. number five: Alex is a chef
that loves to cook different cuisines.
number six: These books is very interesting.
and number seven: I went too New York and I bought to bagels.
Now believe it or not these mistakes are very common,
so if you get one or a few incorrect don't feel bad. I have had many students
who make these different mistakes including myself
if i'm writing or speaking too fast. so let's check the first one.
I could of gone running if I had woken up
early. The mistake here is with the of I could have is the correct way to
say this. I could have gone running and
this also applies if you are using the modals
should should have would would have change
that of to have. Let's look at number two: There were so many people at the
restaurant. Tricky thing about English is when you
have multiple words that sound the same but they're spelled
different and they have different meanings.
so we need to know the difference between there
their and they're There is referring to a location or
place over there I went to school there.
They're is referring to two words that are connected by an apostrophe
They are so they are going to the park and number three: their
t-h-e-i-r this is a possessive form used with something
that belongs to them their car.
their house. Let's look at number three: john's and sasha's new house had a huge
backyard. In this case we are saying that both
john and sasha own a house and we are referring to that house.
it's a form of showing possession if they both own this house you don't have
to use an apostrophe when you mention the first person so
the correct form would be john and sasha's
new house. how about number four: it's not going to rain today. The correct
form is with an apostrophe.
remember we sometimes use an apostrophe to create what's called a contraction
and in this case it means it is
it is not going to rain today as opposed to using the word its
with no apostrophe that is what we call a possessive determiner which simply
shows something that belongs to someone . For example-
its paint color is red i'm referring to the car
and the car's paint color is red. number five: if you are referring to
a person in this case Alex use the pronoun who.
Now let's look at number six and this is the correct response-
These books are very interesting. But do we know why? This common mistake
has to do with subject verb agreement. Here's some other
examples of subject-verb agreement the boy and
girl are studying there are two people here
so you want to use are he is studying they
are studying let's look at the last one number seven: I went too New York
and I bought to bagels there are two mistakes here.
Did you catch both? This is the correct sentence-
I went to New York and I bought two bagels.
this last mistake has to do with knowing the difference between
to, two and too. They sound the same but they have
different meanings in this case the word to to
is a preposition and we use it for different things
we can use it to show motion for example i'm going to new york or it's used when
we use the infinitive form of a verb
I want to walk rather than run. I want to watch a movie.
The word too t-o-o refers when you're saying also or extremely.
So for example I'm too tired today. You're really really tired.
or I want to go too. Let me join you I want to go also.
The last two is of course the number two. So how'd you do on today's challenge? I
challenge you to share this video with someone that you want to know
how they are with their English grammar. Thank you so much for joining me today.
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