English language thread

Brits and Americans, what are some most common grammar mistakes or misused vocabulary you see here on Sup Forums?
Also correct any mistakes ITT

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>"what are some OF THE most common grammar mistakes"

It's lazy/colloquial English on Sup Forums so it's hard to really identify non-native mistakes from just shitposts.

You can't really tell unless you're trying to write in a formal style. Then, it's easier to identify non-natives.

Yes, you're right. I just replaced "the" with "some" and didn't reread. I tend to overuse "some", though.

My brain has been melted by how awful the average foreigner speaks English on Sup Forums, so I've just given up keeping track. It's especially evident on boards like Sup Forums which is inhabited by underage sudacas.

I guess the easiest indicator is pluralization of Old Germanic root nouns and irregular verbs, like cow -> cattle, child -> children, dive -> dove, and so forth. No native English speaker makes those sort of mistakes (besides niggers, but it's hard to keep irregularities straight when the world has cursed you with 80 IQ), so they stick out like a sore thumb.

Non-native speakers often screw up particles and prepositions too, which Huang already mentioned

I wanna learn Russian with Russian qt

>ironic
Misused.

>homonym switcheroo
Very common.

>,
People don't know how to use it. Actually, punctuation in general is ignored.


>cognates
Lots of euros and latinos fuck it up and use their version rather than the actual English word.

>thread about English language
>English teachers in weebland pop up
Like pottery

I ain't an English teacher. I have a real job. I just write business reports for a living.

To be honest with you the average Brit or American doesn't really have much teaching experience, especially not of language.

Japanese English teachers are most likely sweaty ugly weebs but I'd like to hope that they have at least a week of experience teaching

Particles and prepositions are the worst. I've been studying English for years, watching and reading a lot and I still put them in sentences almost arbitrarily.

>a week of experience teaching
I hereby forbid you from claiming to speak English with any degree of fluency.

>I ain't
Is this correct or just nigger gibberish?

I wish we had more English grammar Nazis with a strong vocabulary to learn some cool words.
t. French grammar nazi

English teacher here. It depends on their first language, but I never really paid attention to mistakes made here so I can't comment more specifically.

Having said that, I noticed in your OP you made a mistake with the article "the", which I believe doesn't exist in Russian. Feel free to correct me there

Slavs not using "The" and such.
Or just people using uncommon uses to use words.
"Did you enjoy?" - No one says this yet a lot of asians say things like this. If they just listened to natives more, and immersed the issues would go away.

hey i use "the"

have you enjoyed (that)? - would it be better?

Punctuation is [a] very serious part of Russian, but in English commas don't seem like a big deal.

Articles are difficult to get for a Slav, you're right. I've practiced them a lot and am generally fine with them, people I know seem to struggle greatly.

No, that wouldn't be better. It's technically correct, but not natural.
"Did you like that?" would be better.

>I wish we had more English grammar Nazis with LARGE VOCABULARIES to learn some cool words FROM.

I would rewrite the entire sentence if it were my own, desu.

>have you enjoyed (that)? - would it be better?

Yes, it needs something after the verb.

I noticed you also switched from past simple to present perfect. This can be correct depending on the context

damn
THE people I know, right?

No you don't need THE there

English is a funny language...

Fuggg
I should travel again in some English speaking countries but I don't like any of them

A’int is actually a contraction of “are not”

even nz?

From my observations, there are some mistakes that do pop up among native speakers, perhaps to an even greater degree than among us ESL folk. For example, mixing capitol and capital, province and providence, the use of apostrophe in plural nouns, they're/their, etc.

I never understood why people had difficulty using articles. Anyway, fun fact: some Slovene dialects retain use of certain words that could be considered articles, although their use is a bit limited. Not that I could really explain it, I'm no linguist.

Ausnz is too far

What's the problem with his sentence?

>nigger gibberish
I thought it was from British English, like Cockney and similar stuff, wasn't it?

I don't know desu
The other day I also discovered "thy" or "thou"
Very intriguing

Yes, it's impossible for a non-native to confuse "could've" with "could of" or "you're" with "your", but I see it A LOT from Americans.
It's almost like "тcя/тьcя" in Russian verbs.

>could of
Oh God, I hate that one so much.

>be german
>be more capable in english than many other uk lads

feelsgood

How do I speak english properly? Pls come to Russia and teach me

Stupid mfucker. did you really think you can to be good in english for year only?
Look at fucking amers/brit/germans who live in our countries so many years and whos russian is bad as fuck.
These mfuckers understand your speaking it's enough.

> year only
> been studying for yearS

Ukrainians at its finest.

I've noticed that Russians have a tendency of using personal pronouns when referring to inanimate objects. Such as referring to a tank as a "him" instead of "it".

you, gayrus, are even more moron than i thought.

It's only natural considering we have genders in Russian. A tank is "he", a window is "it", a car is "she", and so forth.

>even more moron

wtf

It's not as smooth a sentence as it could have been, that's all.

Many fellow Americans are absolutely terrible at spelling. Even college professors fuck simple shit up all the time.

>>>be more capable in english than many other uk lads
Ignoring the other mistakes, the "other" implies that you're a "uk lad."

Fuck, I'm not even an English Nazi. I make careless mistakes, too. I don't even blame non-natives for fucking shit up. You're learning from horrible natives.

Correct form would be "I am not" or "l'm not"
Because it would conjugate to "I am" not "I are"

how is pronounce?
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English is easier than Russian, and almost all study it.

> almost everyone studies it

ingurish sure is difficult

>what is a hyperbolic joke

Yes, I'm bad in English.

Too many plebs write "if I was" instead of "if I were".

You sound like a typical educated European. I think you should probably ask a Brit or something, since you sound like you're trying a British accent.

Having said that, If you'd like to sound more fluent, I advise you to learn the rhythm of English sentences. At your level, that alone should be enough to make you sound near-native. (For short bursts, anyway)

> bad AT English
Your reading comprehension is good enough to understand native stuff on Sup Forums, you can't say it's bad, right? Keep [on?] practicing.

I thought it was technically correct to use "I was", no?

I'm better at English than most Anglos. Ask me anything.

>I thought it was technically correct to use "I was", no?

It is. The subjunctive form "were" is mostly used by Amerilards and even there it is on its way out.

>I thought it was technically correct to use "I was", no?
No.

Completely wrong. Learn proper English.

>It's very common to use the 'I were' construction in sentences with 'if' - or conditional sentences. This is correct, and technically speaking:
>'If I was you ...' is incorrect, at least in formal speech and writing.
>Unfortunately, it is quite common to hear native speakers say it

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Only way to learn written English efficiently (or any language for that matter) is to read and listen to it regularly. The easier way is to live in an English speaking country but just reading websites in English and watching subbed series/english youtube videos/twitch works well enough.

Actually, "ain't" is a bit of special case. It just so happens that the contractions of both "are not" and "am not" sound very similar and fairly quickly after their inception they came to be the same word.

Similarly, "has not" and "have not" end up with practically homophonic contractions. Remove an H and it's not a far step from becoming "ain't", which is precisely what happened.

Therefore:

You ain't a doctor.
I ain't a doctor.
You ain't got a doctor.
I ain't got a doctor.
He ain't got a doctor.

Are all perfectly valid.

I know the right one is "I wish I was a little girl," but is there any case for "I wish I'm a little girl"?
My language doesn't have tense, so it's a bit confusing when there are more than 2 verbs in one sentence.

what is the proper use of "shall"?

NOT PASS

It's necessary, not enough, though. You'll have a perfect, near-native understanding of the language, but [will?] struggle to compose a simple text without lookups.

>Completely wrong. Learn proper English.

Read some current linguistic papers on the topic, then come and talk to me again.

"How is it like."
Seems to be mostly germanics that do this.

Nope, there is no case for that

>hurrrr go read unspecified sources lol

So as long as I start writing verb in past tense form, the next verb will be in past tense form too?

It's used much like "will" to indicate future simple tense, except preferably exclusively in the first person (I, we, us, me). Additionally it's used to assert or indicate intention, to command or indicate obligation, or as an interrogative modal verb. The two former should, again, preferably only be used with the second (you, your, yours) or third person (he, she, it, they).

Simple future marker: I shall consider what you have said.
Assertion/Intention: They shall tremble.
Command/Obligation: You shall not pass.
Interrogative: Shall we go home?

Though, it shall be noted that it is considered mostly archaic as a future marker.

What are you?