Odd Man Out #2

▶️ Check your pronunciation and look for the vowel they all have in common, except one!

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Odd Man Out #3

▶️ There are some spelling mistakes that are really popular among students. Look at the words below and find the one that is spelled correctly!

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Correct me if you can #21

▶️ Find the mistake in the following sentence:

All teachers should give feedbacks to their students.

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Our favourite mistakes #148: Writing

▶️ Please translate the following sentence:

Toshkent aholisi 3,1 million, Andijonniki 500.000.

❌ Perhaps you think it is:
The population of Tashkent is 3,1 million, that of Andijan 500.000.

✅ Well, it should be:
The population of Tashkent is 3.1 million, that of Andijan 500,000.

❓What’s wrong here?
❗️ Just as you say “three point one” – what you write is a dot, NOT a comma. Conversely, large numbers are separated by commas in English, NOT by dots.

💡More examples:
I scored ❌ 7,5 ✅ 7.5 in IELTS.
I paid ❌ 100.000 ✅ 100,000 soum for this.
It took me ❌ 1,5 ✅ 1.5 hours to get home.

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Odd Man Out #4

▶️ Pay attention to your pronunciation today, more specifically to the number of syllables you pronounce.

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Our favourite mistakes #149: Writing

▶️ Look at this piece of wannabe academic writing:

There is given an example in the article.

❓What’s wrong here?
❗️You can add “given” but do it after the object, i.e. There is an example given in the article.

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Correct me if you can #22

▶️ Find the mistake in the following sentence:

Let’s go to a café, I’m starving.

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Our favourite mistakes #150: Writing

▶️ Look at these sentences:

1️⃣ It should be noted that, this is very important.
2️⃣ The reason is that, people have different opinions.
3️⃣ It is a very big problem so that, we must solve it.

❓What’s wrong?
❗️There’s no reason why you should use a comma here. Please don’t.

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Odd Man Out #5

▶️ Pay attention to the vowels.

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Our favourite mistakes #151: Grammar

▶️ Please translate the following sentence:
Xudoga shukur!

❌ Perhaps you think it is:
Thanks God!

✅ Well, it should be:
Thank God!

❓Why?

It sounds like you’re talking to God. 😇

❗️ Thanks has two uses: a) to thank somebody directly in a conversation or b) to give a reason for some good result, e.g. My English is getting better every day thanks to Afandi English.

❗️ To thank sb/sth is a transitive verb and thank here is a third-person imperative, similar to the Uzbek -sin suffix in bersin or qilsin.

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