TOP 10 GRAMMAR MISTAKES English Learners Make

[@bialynia]

I'm guessing you didn't have many Slavic students if completely omitting 'a/an' and 'the' didn't make the list :D

[@AndreiBerezin]

Yeah cuz we know those little particles are completely unnecessary

[@PauloPereira-jj4jv]

@@AndreiBerezin ... so YOU are the ones who "decide" what is or what is not necessary...? 😂

[@AndreiBerezin]

@@PauloPereira-jj4jv for damn sure!

[@jamesmcinnis208]

Speakers of any language with no articles find it really difficult to use them when speaking English.

[@AndreiBerezin]

@@jamesmcinnis208 yes, definitely, and the main reason is we cant just figure out what the hell they're in there for. They have no function, can be easily dropped, and nothing gonna change.

[@oliolisay]

Not native, but in my opinion, "Remember" is clearly intransitive AND transitive, depending on the context. I noticed the "usally" in the bottom but i think that could mislead some people. Correct me if i'm wrong but aren't there many cases where " remember " is used as a transitive verb ? > "Do you remember her ?" > "I remember that we used to go and see them..." > "Don't you remember that ?"

[@LetThemTalkTV]

Yes, you are right. It was a mistake. I wanted to say that it's often confused with remind "please remind me", not "please remember me". But REMEMBER can certainly be transitive. Apologies, I was trying to keep the video brief but by doing so left out some important information.

[@ibrahimabah2628]

great lesson . thank you so much

[@indyourosier6362]

I proud of your teaching guy!

[@rajanjoseph4877]

Your body language is really awesome 👏👍

[@olamaciak831]

13:52 why is there "a future" instead of "the future"?

[@frengtterma4102]

you used "r" sound in "I saw a film." can you explain why is that? I've only heard British people using it but I might be wrong. Love your channel by the way!

[@piezocuttlefish]

"You cannot follow 'say' with a direct object." I think you've confused transitive and ditransitive again! You cannot follow 'say' with a dative (indirect) object. The direct object is what often follows 'say'. Sometimes that's a noun, or sometimes that's a literal phrase, which takes special syntax: I gave him a fiver, so he said the password quietly to me. I told him he was crazy, whereupon he said, "I could tell you what you should do with that apple, but you wouldn't do it." Note the comma that comes before the phrase. It is a peculiarity that, when a employing a phrase as nouns, a comma separates it from either a preceding verb or a postpositive phrase-but in that case it can be overridden by another punctuation mark "When we went," he said, "to Scarborough, we all had a lovely time" "Bollocks!" he said angrily. "Friday," said he, "is when we drink Scotch."

[@svenjahnsen3381]

Sorry but you are talking gibberish.

[@mrbones3163]

Everybody likes this guy. He knows all.

[@catherinequetant1260]

You say that remember is an intransitive verb. Does it mean it's incorrect to say "do you remember me ?"

[@evjj1969]

As I have been studying American English for 30 years, it's important to me to learn British expressions etc.

[@Frostvul]

Give me a bread, there are multiple lightnings outside. Or you can give me a couches, or you can give me a luggages, literally.

[@sanablue]

the clip in the beginning had me snorting. :,D lovely!

[@david11984]

Many Spanish people and other languages make these mistakes... some of them may compare our language to English....

[@LetThemTalkTV]

It's not unusual

[@svenjahnsen3381]

Una lengua y un pueblo no son lo mismo.

[@huonghayley]

Every people is grammatically incorrect, but sometimes i do use 'every person'. 🤔

[@hhgygy]

named - called, you should have mentioned that the first is Americanism

[@ikhalidsant-moritz118]

You are Cool .I like You !

[@LAX2hard]

I'm an American native speaker, and I've never used "called" for a person. It sounds like I'm talking about a dog or something. Using called in this way sounds too much like foreign languages. Is using called like that a British thing?

[@easterdeer]

In English we don't say 'every people', and that just goes to show that every nation and every people has its own linguistic quirks ;D

[@user-hv7mb3ye2v]

As a native English speaker from the U.S., "I met a guy named Jim" doesn't sound unnatural at all to me. I think this is a difference of dialect, as using the word "called" in its place would sound very strange to a native speaker from the U.S. Though, you can only use "named when referring to actual names of people or pets. We use "called" in every other situation. For example "We saw a movie CALLED Guardians of the Galaxy".

[@oldpolishguy253]

Very true. It is very odd sounding to me when 'named' is replaced with 'called' and referring to a proper name rather than a nickname or more 'colorful' reference. You can call someone anything, but a name is name.

[@RamKumar-yi6wn]

I like your shirt ; gives you a very distinctive and professional air.

[@educationalbro9670]

I have one

[@foureyefreak00]

Why isn’t it “grammatical mistakes” instead of “grammar mistakes”?

[@alexanderpetrachkov2243]

Dear Gideon. Within 1 month I watched all of your 121 videos that you have released in 6 years and I thank you very much for your work. Good luck to you!

[@LetThemTalkTV]

Dear Alexander, I try to respond to as many comments as possible. It's difficult though because I get so many these days. However, when I saw your message that you'd watched all the videos I thought I would take a moment to thank you. I hope you learnt a lot and you'll continue watching - we have a more coming up soon. Best wishes.

[@Immopimmo]

In my opinion "named" is for real names, "called" is for nicknames, pets and objects. For example: A guy named John vs. A guy called Moose.

[@NothingMaster]

Only a native Southerner could say: “ ‘Them’ two pieces of human garbage ‘is’ insufferable “, and fixin’ to get away with it.

[@Riurelia]

As a native English speaker who enjoys studying other languages, I enjoy seeing my own language from the eyes of a non native English speaker. Of course, since I study other languages sometimes, I enjoy watching videos like this for learners of Spanish or French.

[@X1GenKaneShiroX]

Saying something along the line of ‘should/would/could of’ can mess up a lot of people and is something people considered incorrect.

[@studylearnenglish848]

great stuff! The double negative is a really common mistake. I hear this from my students in class almost every day, so I know it's important. I also made a video dealing with this issue.

[@maqsoodalam519]

Good evening sir, improve my English spoken day by day thanks and you are so amazing online English teaching

[@LetThemTalkTV]

Thank you for being amazing.

[@gabrielepoggi1079]

Excellent! I'll say "thanks a lot" in all the languages I know. Let's start: "Спасибо большое!", "Merci beaucoup!", "Thanks a lot!", "Grazie mille!", "Köszönöm szépen!"

[@yahyaakaaboune7062]

شكرا

[@verymozart]

Ok but in Italian that would be better translated with molte grazie, even if it's the same meaning

[@michielvdvlies3315]

in dutch its different dankuwel

[@bestyav5529]

Say and tell is a very common mistake in India. 90% of Indian people are confused . Number 3 is my every day mistake. Thanks to have corrected.

[@briankane6547]

"either" Vs. "iether" (Pronunciation, NOT spelling) ie Vs. ei ( in German pronunciation 😉) That said, OLD Cumbrians use "Owther", whereby hangs a joke. Posh couple of blokes arguing over eether Vs. ither, asked old farmer's opinion. "Ay, Ah divent know lads, Owther'll dyu fer me."

[@HotelPapa100]

Every people ever described has a unique culture. So there... 'Remember' is not intransitive; it DOES take an object, you rememeber /something/ It does, however, not take an indirect object

[@102scott]

Incorrect. Any is for questions and negative answers. Do you have ANY information? NOT do you have Some information.

[@abukhizar4088]

I don't RECALL asking for your opinion but thanks for wasting your time The important thing to REMEMBER is not to forget

[@LetThemTalkTV]

"Some day maybe, I'll remember to forget"

[@abukhizar4088]

@@LetThemTalkTV I think sir you're the only one I need to teach me I'll remember not to forget the way you responded so kind of you

[@LetThemTalkTV]

I will remember you. Thanks

[@abukhizar4088]

EVERYBODY funny Now you funny too PEOPLE say nothing is IMPOSSIBLE But I do nothing every day

[@LetThemTalkTV]

Nothing is stopping you doing nothing. Yet you keep on doing nothing. That's impossible

[@user-tk2jy8xr8b]

If you want to count information - use bits > you cannot follow "say" with a direct object "say a word" - isn't "a word" a direct object? > if you want to sound like a native speaker just use "called" oh, yes, "I was called after my grandad" ;)

[@kalpanadevi7670]

Sir, Call me when you have some free time. Call me if you have any free time. In these two sentences, first one is right. Second is wrong. Because, time is uncountable. But I hear people talking about having 'any time' . Plz help me understand this. -Your biggg fan. Kalpana from India.

[@malardjm]

As a francophone from Quebec, I prefer "not bad" with a positive uplifting tone than "I just washed my socks."

[@piezocuttlefish]

Of course your examples were correct, but "every people" is quite grammatical and semantically correct-when you are using the singular "people" to refer to an ethnic group: for example in, "England colonised every people in Ghana, teaching them all the Queen's English.".

[@Castilda0311]

Shouldn’t “I remember you being there” be “your being there”? “You being” is wrong. “ing” ending denotes a present participle, a gerund, treated as a noun.

[@neo778]

English seems so easy to learn, but correct English isn‘t easy at all 🙈

[@piezocuttlefish]

Oof. You meant that remember is transitive but almost never ditransitive, but remind is ditransitive. For "remember", the thing remembered is the accusative object-and you proceeded to give two examples: one grammatically and semantically transitive, and the other semantically transitive with a grammatical twist. "visiting Stonehenge when I was a kid" is a noun phrase, and it is the direct object of "remember" in your first example. The case of "remember when [X]" is interesting, since it is a once-transitive use that got elided, "Do you remember (the times) when we used to make sandcastles on the beach?" Now we can omit "the times", which turns the noun phrase into, syntactically, an adverbial phrase-but it is semantically a noun phrase. You can tell that because this is a valid sentence which means something entirely different: "Every time you and I played together, I would remember the time as toddlers we got lost on the beach. In our teens, when we used to make sandcastles on the beach, did you remember?". Remind, however, is ditransitive: it takes a dative object and an accusative object.

[@boriswilliams6217]

Nice

[@pauldecroes1284]

Another word that pops into my mind is the word 'police' which is plural in English but singular in other languages, Paul, Belgium.

[@Frostvul]

For example, when someone says, "he said to me" could be when telling a story. "Told me" could also be a demand, so using "said to me" creates a more dramatic effect

[@subjectfrank]

Should i also use "Give him the book once he arrives" insted of "Give him the book when he arrives"?

[@piezocuttlefish]

Your version is quite correct, as is "Give him the book upon his arrival.". The [when] version is the least literary (most likely to be spoken), the [upon] version seems like it is mostly likely to be read, and the [once] version is somewhere between.

[@subjectfrank]

@@piezocuttlefish thanks a lot for your help my friend. now i understand which one to use in which situation.

[@OceanChild75]

Do kids still make sandcastles on the beach? 🤔 I feel like I haven’t seen any in ages. Sorry, this is out of topic but it is 4am, my insomnia has kicked in and you got me thinking!

[@RamosCintia]

I usually like your videos. But this was too long and little confused. Maybe it's worked better if be in two parts. 😉

[@Maurice-Navel]

EVERY PEOPLE has a right to self-determination.

[@rfvtgbzhn]

I think "let's go into the shade" illogical because the "shade" is actually a shadow of something.

[@svenjahnsen3381]

The otherwise brilliant Gideon makes a few mistakes here. He says that you canot use "say" with a direct object." That is obviously nonsense. 1. "She said t h e w o r d s in a peculiar way". 2. In "She said she was hungry" the direct object is the subsidiary clause (s h e w a s h u n g r y). Secondly, a verb is never transitive or intransitive, but can be u s e d transitively or intransitively. What this Gideon should also have told his listeners is that the verb "tell" requires either a direct object, which is not a "that-sentence", or an indirect object.

[@kasiasagun8493]

Can you clarify please, what about people who write, 'Dear All' in their emails?

[@102scott]

Shadow and shade are wrong too here. Shade is the place where you can protect yourself from the sun. Shadow is the moveable shade of something or someone.

[@alainlevy1240]

All the jugglers had balls, including the female dagger-juggling jugglers.

[@theophonchana5025]

2:20 "luggages" doesn't exist. 4:26 "or ... or" doesn't exist.

[@agneskuzminska6523]

Gideon, could you please comment on this: when I was at school I was taught "There are two common pronunciations of "either": British /ˈaɪðər/ and American /ˈiːðər/ and "neither": British /ˈnaɪðər/ and American /ˈniːðər/" Now I find out many British pronounce it 'the American way' but now I read: While Americans are more or less consistent in this regard, the Brits seem to be freely using both. In fact, from what I can tell, "either this or that" is more often in the first form, whereas "me either" is in the second. Is there any kind of an informal rule in the modern British English with regard to this?

[@doc837]

In American English we'd definitrely say, "I met a guy named Jim." "Called" would seem stilted.

[@marcopolo6076]

Hello. How should I pronounce words such as map, France, cat, man, jab, bath? Can I always say [a:] not [ae]?

[@rastolewandowski9721]

you can‘t say for instance „every people has its creation myth“?

[@mattiheiskanen597]

Stop waving Your arms, please.

[@gabor6259]

'Remember' can be transitive though.

[@samwichvr485]

the named isnt old fashioned, it is just American english.

[@ivanor7078]

Could we say " you can whether have a hot dog or a kale salad" istead of saying " Either you can have a hot dog or you can have a kale salad" ?

[@letMeSayThatInIrish]

No. But we can say "I don't know whether I want a hot dog or a kale salad".

[@LetThemTalkTV]

question answered.

[@ivanor7078]

@@LetThemTalkTV Thank you very much.

[@doqashady]

We have a creative teacher here but not more than me :)

[@pussycatlover6522]

Gideon, merci bien. You the man.

[@larsfle6015]

You of 'all people' say that we can't say 'all people' LoL ;-) I love your videos - they are brilliant :-)

[@nagiahlakshmi1893]

Would you please explain how to become fluent at home alone, because I have been learning English for 1 year but still I couldn't speak and I was insulted by office staff please help me sir

[@josephsujai5543]

I can teach you

[@aquarius4953]

Never,never,never accept to be insulted by some English moron because you don't speak their bloody language. You are the one who makes the effort to learn English . I'm pretty sure your English has improved a lot since 2019.

[@christiansarino]

My name is Christian G. Sarino im 25 yrs old im from brgy: May iba Teresa Rizal proud to say that school graduated and i used to work in Euroasia marble&granite and i am installer which is instalatiin of tile's marbles and granite in last 2014 to 2018, and this kind of job I'll been experience how to talk someone or clients to convince them to buy your products and tell them the good quality of products and the benefits that will received from it, and also i experience of some job which is rushing and you need to finished it before the deadline and i find the easiest way to finished all of it without any delay and finally i did it. But i decided to resign because some of our PIC or Project In Changed was didn't handling properly and sometimes they didn't give updates scheduled of work and overtime for me i think, there's a problem in our company that time and also lack of salary and growths work. after that i work in DMCI company and im proud to say i am helper of painters but that good things is i learned how to paint in just a month its because my eagerness to learned neq things like this. Then after few months i been challenge because my painters was filed of live in one month to go to province for his married , and im the only one who in charge in that section, and there's a lot of unit was came in and that time i did my pretty best to do and finished it and i make my boss impressed and im also actives in sports like basketball and i enjoyed to participate with my team and coworkers to do some activities to get better results and got an accomplishment that's it. Hello good evening sir. Can i ask you about my answer into tell me something about your self if is there have a chance if im gonna answer like this , because i want to walk at call center and i dont have any experience in the call center but i want to be part of it. Could you please check my answer thank you, have a good night.

[@KingSejongTheGreatOfKorea]

Wouldn't "Every people has its own culture" be correct?

[@myplaylissst]

Person

[@KingSejongTheGreatOfKorea]

@@myplaylissst People in the sense of "population of a nation".

[@myplaylissst]

@@KingSejongTheGreatOfKorea I would just say "every nation has its own culture"

[@hervepuischevrier2815]

Je retrouve pas mal de mes fautes. Merci pour la vidéo, je la trouve plus facile à comprendre que les autres

[@nickieshadowfaxbrooklyn5192]

I have a fixed plan: no plan whatsoever. Lol

[@pussycatlover6522]

you watch a film, not see a film.

[@kirillluftreiter]

Thank you so much for good and clear explanation with interesting examples and useful tricks to remember the rules! That's very helpful.

[@larsfle6015]

I 'saw' a movie or I 'watched' a movie?

[@gabrielemontini5240]

Wow! The best lesson I have ever seen! Tonight I playing pool tournament but when I come back I’ll study it deeply. Thank you very much

[@LetThemTalkTV]

I hope you won the pool tournament.

[@gabrielemontini5240]

LetThemTalkTV I lost the final...😭😭😭 But I played well so...it’s half win...

[@rickebuschcatherine2729]

Oh thanks, we need to hear that....

[@siddharthanp1132]

Sir a great honor to you I can now speak English fluently because, of you sir I am very thankful to you sir.

[@TidoTee]

What about "shall" and "will"

[@monaarchy2367]

daddy

[@Hamishtarah]

Top 10 grammar mistakes or how to speak English like an American.

[@MarCamus]

im giga american then

[@jordillach3222]

5:57 🤔 I'm not an English native speaker and my teachers always told me that the correct word for this is hue and that shade is wrong ⁉️

[@LetThemTalkTV]

It's complicated but you also have tints and tones. I believe hues are different colours and shades occur when you add varying amounts of black to a colour so that it becomes darker.

[@briankane6547]

Ah's gahn t'bed t'neet.

[@Dave2024uk]

Very nice video 🇪🇹

[@rnp5157]

Sir Pl clarify whether the following sentence is grammatically correct .: The book is meant to assist the students in their learning of language, which is an acquired one. ( This has been taken from the introduction to a badly written text book used in Kerala University for UG students. The comma is there in the original sentence)

[@josephcote6120]

That does sound strange. If I were to write that it would probably be: "Learning a language is an acquired skill; this book is meant to assist students learning that skill."

[@dominikazieba4723]

I value this channel very much though there's one thing really difficult to bear. These ' vocal brakes' between subtopics and in the intro - the volume suddenly turns up which is really unpleasant especially if one listens to the channel in the early morning or late evening just for relaxation. As I know it's a good practice to have everything in the similar volume. Improves the overall user experience significantly :) Thank you for your videos and presenting all the topics in a nice, funny but still professional manner. :)

[@elfaed11]

I totally agree👍👌

[@d4hc]

You should make a podcast dudes. It's so good. God bless you

[@abdulmatin2576]

Electrifying

[@buonleo]

3:38 TRAFFIC 😆

[@alexey4internet]

Brrr... He speak [ɪðə] instead [ʌɪðə]. Is this a British pronunciation? And why he's speaking [d'airekt] instead [dɪˈrɛkt]?

[@antoniocastillo5382]

All this people

[@NothingMaster]

On a more serious note: I’ve seen many a nonnative speakers having difficulties with prepositions. Like saying, “the package arrived on time”, instead of saying, “the package arrived in time.”

[@sky75691]

arrival on time or in time are both legitimate but have different meanings. For example if the train is due at 17.00 and your connection is at 17.30 then arrival on time is arrival at 17.00. Arrival at 17.10 is arrival in time (as long as you still have time enough to make your 17.30 connection that is.) but not on time.

[@uffa00001]

@@sky75691 Yes, but the general difficulty with prepositions remains: different from (different to) is one case in point.

[@theophonchana6307]

Information/Info, news, luggage is uncountable.

[@myplaylissst]

Are

[@valentinaosorio]

Excellent 👌

[@curtcoller3632]

I know teachers and actors have a lot in common. Teachers are just the lower paid version. I am (was) one of them, back when I lived in Europe. Today I'm scripting video clips, editing and sounding them (lol). Language was not my subject of expertise - economics was! Well, it is far more economical to use an old typewriter, but scripting, I must say the train does not move! Usually every time you type a letter the train moved a bit to the left - to make space for the next letter. After a while you had to reset the train with a lever all the way to the left, by pushing it right - for the next row. Yep, I learned typing on those weird things. You are very good in explaining - which every teacher should be. Most are not. Thanks for the "octopus", did not know it's NOT a word rooted in Latin. You see, listening to some You Tube teachers (wannabees) you develop "fungi" in your brain.

[@htconex19062012]

Thanks boss

[@LiFELoG-f9q]

I love you.

[@ura119]

Thanks for the lesson, mister

[@LetThemTalkTV]

Thanks for the comment mister

[@renaroma35]

Thanks a lot it is Loud and Clear!

[@mihailzagorodnii2225]

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