( Class 8 ) Are You Making These Mistakes In English Grammar?
English grammar is a real pain in the neck! One of the best ways to learn English grammar is by learning from mistakes. In this lesson you will learn 5 very common English Grammar mistakes and how to avoid them!
For many students, learning English grammar is very boring. English grammar is often difficult to deal with. But, if you want to learn English language, learning English grammar is inevitable! Why is that?
English language has 6 main aspects to learn: 2 systems and 4 skills
Systems are: English grammar and English vocabulary Skills are: Speaking, Reading, Writing and Listening To fully learn English language from 0 to 100, you have to focus on all these 6 aspects, and of course, the systems are the base for the rest! learning English grammar is very crucial if you want to speak fluently and improve your English listening, reading and writing skills.
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For many students, learning English grammar is very boring. English grammar is often difficult to deal with. But, if you want to learn English language, learning English grammar is inevitable! Why is that?
English language has 6 main aspects to learn: 2 systems and 4 skills
Systems are: English grammar and English vocabulary Skills are: Speaking, Reading, Writing and Listening To fully learn English language from 0 to 100, you have to focus on all these 6 aspects, and of course, the systems are the base for the rest! learning English grammar is very crucial if you want to speak fluently and improve your English listening, reading and writing skills.
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Transcript
00:00Ah, grammar again! Boring! Or is it?
00:06There are many ways to learn English grammar, but one of the best ways is to learn from
00:12mistakes.
00:14Hello, my name is Matti from POC English, and in this lesson, we are going to learn
00:23English grammar by reviewing five very common English grammar mistakes.
00:30Let's start with number one.
00:33Look at this sentence.
00:34I laid down and went to sleep.
00:39I laid down and went to sleep.
00:42What is wrong with this sentence?
00:50That's right!
00:51The problem is with the verb laid.
00:55But what is wrong with laid?
00:57There are two very similar and confusing verbs in English language.
01:02Lay and lie.
01:04To lay means to put something down, or to put something somewhere.
01:10To lie means to go in a horizontal position.
01:14So if you're like this, and if you decide to lie, you would go like this.
01:20For example, here's a notebook.
01:22I'm going to lay the notebook on the table.
01:28I'm going to lay the notebook on the table.
01:33So I lay something somewhere, or I lay something down.
01:38But if I am tired, I would lie in bed.
01:45Lie in bed.
01:47So you lay something down, or you lie down yourself.
01:52Or here's another example.
01:54Imagine there's a baby in your arms.
01:57What would you do if the baby falls asleep?
02:01You would lay the baby down, right?
02:05But imagine you yourself are tired, and then there's a couch.
02:10What would you do?
02:11You would lie down on the couch.
02:15So far so good, right?
02:17The problem begins when you start talking about the past.
02:22Why?
02:23Hmm.
02:24The past form of the verb lie is lay.
02:29That's confusing, right?
02:31So when you say lay, are you talking about lay something now, or are you talking about
02:37the past of lie?
02:40Look at this sentence.
02:41Yesterday, I was tired, so I lay in bed.
02:47I lay in bed.
02:48The past of lay, which means to put something down, or to put something somewhere, is laid.
02:54Yesterday, I laid down the book on the table.
02:59I laid down the book.
03:01So yesterday, I lay on the couch.
03:04Yesterday, I laid down the book.
03:07Now, let's go back to the original sentence.
03:10I laid down and went to bed.
03:13We're talking about past, right?
03:16And if I want to say that yesterday, I went in a horizontal position, I shouldn't say
03:22laid.
03:23I should use the past of lie, which is lay.
03:27I hope I've made this clear.
03:29Even native speakers sometimes use lay instead of laid, and laid instead of lay, so it's
03:34very confusing.
03:35Now, time for the second sentence.
03:38Look at this one.
03:40I haven't a car.
03:41I travel by train.
03:44I haven't a car.
03:45I travel by train.
03:48What's wrong?
03:54The problem is with the verb haven't.
03:58Look at these three sentences.
04:00I have a car.
04:02I have a meeting.
04:04He has cereal for breakfast.
04:07What is the main verb in these three sentences?
04:11Have, or in the third one, has, which is the third person singular form of the verb have.
04:18How do you make these sentences negative?
04:21Now, the main verb is have, so if you want to make them negative, you should say don't
04:27have, not haven't.
04:30You say don't have, or for the third person singular, doesn't have.
04:34I have a car.
04:36I don't have a car, not I haven't a car, I don't have a car.
04:42I have a meeting.
04:44I don't have a meeting.
04:46He has cereal for breakfast.
04:50He doesn't have cereal for breakfast.
04:53We don't say he hasn't, no, he doesn't have.
04:57This is true for simple present.
04:59However, if you are using present perfect, it's different.
05:04Look at this sentence.
05:05I have played tennis.
05:07I have played tennis.
05:09This is present perfect.
05:10Now, tell me, which one is the main verb?
05:14Is it have?
05:15No, the main verb here is played.
05:20Played is the main verb, and have is the auxiliary verb.
05:24When have is an auxiliary verb, usually in present perfect tense, instead of don't have,
05:30you should say haven't.
05:32So what is the negative of this sentence?
05:34I have played tennis.
05:36I haven't played tennis.
05:39You don't say I don't have played tennis, no, I haven't played tennis.
05:43So to sum up, if have is your main verb, the negative is don't have.
05:49If have is an auxiliary verb, the negative is haven't.
05:53Number three, look at this sentence.
05:56Can you suggest me a good dentist?
06:00Can you suggest me a good dentist?
06:02What's wrong with this sentence?
06:10That's right, there is a problem with the use of the verb suggest.
06:14But how can we use the verb suggest correctly?
06:18Well, there are three ways you can use the verb suggest in English language.
06:24Number one, you can use this structure, suggest something to somebody.
06:30For example, I can suggest a good dentist to you, suggest a good dentist to you.
06:41Or I can suggest a very good restaurant to your brother.
06:46So you see, we use suggest something to somebody.
06:51The second way you can use the verb suggest is to say suggest doing something.
06:57Well, we use this structure when we want to talk about activities.
07:02For example, I suggest going for lunch.
07:06I suggest going for lunch.
07:10I'm suggesting an activity.
07:11Or I suggest visiting a dentist.
07:16I suggest visiting a dentist.
07:20And the third way you can use the verb suggest is by using this structure.
07:26Suggest that somebody should do something.
07:32Suggest that somebody should do something.
07:33This is a longer sentence.
07:35How can we use it?
07:36Look at this example.
07:38He suggested that I should visit a dentist.
07:44He suggested that I should visit a dentist.
07:50Suggest that somebody should do something.
07:53So let's go back to the original sentence.
07:56Can you suggest me a good dentist?
07:58What's wrong with this?
08:00You should say, can you suggest something to somebody?
08:05Can you suggest a good dentist to me?
08:08That's the right form.
08:10Common mistake number four.
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08:41Now mistake number four.
08:43Look at this sentence.
08:45Please describe me your father.
08:48Please describe me your father.
08:50What's wrong?
08:57That's right.
08:58There is a problem with the use of the verb describe.
09:01But how should we use describe?
09:03Like suggest, you should say, describe something to somebody or describe somebody to somebody.
09:10So instead of saying, describe me your father, you should say, describe your father to me.
09:18Can you describe your best friend to me?
09:21Could you describe your hometown to me?
09:24Can you describe your parents to me?
09:26So describe me your parents or describe me your father is wrong.
09:30You should say, describe your father to me.
09:33Describe somebody or something to me.
09:35I can't remember her.
09:37Can you describe her to me?
09:40And the last common mistake we are going to learn together in this lesson.
09:45Look at this sentence.
09:47It is a lot of noise in the street.
09:50It is a lot of noise in the street.
09:54What's wrong?
10:00There is a problem with the use of the pronoun it.
10:04When you want to say something exists somewhere, you don't use it, you use there.
10:10For example, in my bedroom, there is a phone.
10:14There is a phone.
10:16I'm talking about its existence.
10:18There is a phone.
10:19Or here, there is a microphone.
10:23Let's go down.
10:25Or there is an iPad on my desk.
10:29Or there is a power bank.
10:32If the things you're talking about are more than one, maybe two, three, four, or many,
10:38you don't use there is, you say there are.
10:41There are some books on my desk.
10:43There are some books on my desk.
10:46If you're talking about the past, you can say there was for one thing or there were
10:51for a couple of things.
10:53There was a tall guy in the party.
10:55There was a tall guy, one tall guy in the party yesterday.
11:00There were many beautiful girls in the party yesterday.
11:04So back to the original sentence.
11:07It is a lot of noise in the street should be.
11:11There is a lot of noise.
11:13Why there is, why not there are?
11:15Because noise is singular.
11:17So there is a lot of noise in the street.
11:21All right.
11:22That's it, guys.
11:23I hope you've enjoyed this lesson.
11:24See you.