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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▶️ Please translate the following sentence:
Xudoga shukur!
❌ Perhaps you think it is:
Thanks God!
✅ Well, it should be:
❓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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Correct me if you can #23
▶️ Find the mistake in the following sentence:
I haven’t time for such stupid things like Instagram.
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▶️ Find the mistake in the following sentence:
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Our favourite mistakes #152: Punctuation
▶️ Look at these sentences:
1) Life-the gift of God.
2) She’s a middle–aged lady.
3) It’s a long -term plan.
❓What’s wrong?
❗️1) Should be a dash, not a hyphen. Dashes are like commas but stronger, for extra emphasis.
2) Should be a hyphen, not a dash. Hyphens turn two or more words into one.
3) Wrong space before the hyphen. Hyphens don't have spaces around them, dashes do.
Remember:
Hyphen = short, no spaces
Dash = long, with spaces
More about spacing in a previous post.
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▶️ Look at these sentences:
1) Life-the gift of God.
2) She’s a middle–aged lady.
3) It’s a long -term plan.
❓What’s wrong?
❗️
2) Should be a hyphen, not a dash. Hyphens turn two or more words into one.
3) Wrong space before the hyphen. Hyphens don't have spaces around them, dashes do.
Remember:
Hyphen = short, no spaces
Dash = long, with spaces
More about spacing in a previous post.
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Odd Man Out #6
▶️ Pay attention to the vowel sound [aɪ].
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▶️ Pay attention to the vowel sound [aɪ].
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Correct me if you can #24
▶️ Find the mistake in the following sentence:
You’re a good chef, your plov tastes normal!
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▶️ Find the mistake in the following sentence:
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Our favourite mistakes #153: Vocabulary & Grammar
▶️ Please translate the following:
Hamma odamlar ham tabiat haqida qayg’urishmaydi. Shuning uchun, ifloslanish bor.
❌ Perhaps you think it is:
All of people don’t care about the environment. In this case, there is pollution.
✅ Well, it should be:
Nobody cares about the environment. That’s why there is pollution.
❓Why❓
❗️All is affirmative and doesn’t go with negation (don’t).
❗️After all of there must be a determiner, like all of the cake or all of these students or all of my money.
❗️In this case means if that is so (agar shunday bo’lsa).
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▶️ Please translate the following:
Hamma odamlar ham tabiat haqida qayg’urishmaydi. Shuning uchun, ifloslanish bor.
❌ Perhaps you think it is:
All of people don’t care about the environment. In this case, there is pollution.
✅ Well, it should be:
❓Why❓
❗️All is affirmative and doesn’t go with negation (don’t).
❗️After all of there must be a determiner, like all of the cake or all of these students or all of my money.
❗️In this case means if that is so (agar shunday bo’lsa).
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Odd Man Out #7
▶️ Uzbekistan’s education system is haunted (=visited by ghosts) by some “false friends” – foreign words that look easy to translate but actually mean different things. Find the true friend among the words below!
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▶️ Uzbekistan’s education system is haunted (=visited by ghosts) by some “false friends” – foreign words that look easy to translate but actually mean different things. Find the true friend among the words below!
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Our favourite mistakes #154: Vocabulary
▶️ Please translate the following:
O’qishimni tugata olmadim, ba’zi sabablarga ko’ra.
❌ Perhaps you think it is:
I couldn’t finish my study because of some reasons.
✅ Well, it should be:
I couldn’t finish my studies.
❓Why?
❗️Studies is a plural noun. The singular noun study is a) a research project or b) a room in your house where you work or study.
❗️Because of / For some reasons is Uzlish and has no good translation. It sounds like you want to keep your reasons secret.
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▶️ Please translate the following:
O’qishimni tugata olmadim, ba’zi sabablarga ko’ra.
❌ Perhaps you think it is:
I couldn’t finish my study because of some reasons.
✅ Well, it should be:
❓Why?
❗️Studies is a plural noun. The singular noun study is a) a research project or b) a room in your house where you work or study.
❗️Because of / For some reasons is Uzlish and has no good translation. It sounds like you want to keep your reasons secret.
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Our favourite mistakes #155: Pronunciation
▶️ Try pronouncing the following words:
• church
• Turkey
• word
• work
• worm
• world
• worse
• worst
❓What do these words have in common? They have the long vowel [ɜ:] as in “girl” or “bird”.
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▶️ Try pronouncing the following words:
• church
• Turkey
• word
• work
• worm
• world
• worse
• worst
❓What do these words have in common? They have the long vowel [ɜ:] as in “girl” or “bird”.
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Correct me if you can #25
▶️ Find the mistake in the following sentence:
I’m very busy these days because of the session.
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▶️ Find the mistake in the following sentence:
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Our favourite mistakes #156: Vocabulary & Grammar
▶️ Please translate:
Ko’p odamlarga pul yetishmaydi. Ularning boshqa yo’li yo’q.
❌ Perhaps you think it is:
Many people lack of money. They have no another way.
✅ Well, it should be:
Many people lack money. They have no other way.
❓Why?
❗️When lack is a verb it is NOT followed by of. We add of only to the noun, i.e. “There’s a lack of water.”
❗️No is a determiner here and there’s no need for the article an in another.
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▶️ Please translate:
Ko’p odamlarga pul yetishmaydi. Ularning boshqa yo’li yo’q.
❌ Perhaps you think it is:
Many people lack of money. They have no another way.
✅ Well, it should be:
❓Why?
❗️When lack is a verb it is NOT followed by of. We add of only to the noun, i.e. “There’s a lack of water.”
❗️No is a determiner here and there’s no need for the article an in another.
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Odd Man Out #8
▶️ Pay attention to the [th] sound.
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▶️ Pay attention to the [th] sound.
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Our favourite mistakes #157: Vocabulary
▶️ Please translate the following:
Universitetda o’qish plus va minus taraflari bor.
❌ Perhaps you think it is:
Studying at University has pluses and minuses.
✅ Well, it should be:
Studying at university has advantages and disadvantages.
❓Why?
❗️University is only capitalized when it’s part of a proper name, like "Cambridge University", not otherwise.
❗️Pluses and minuses is a translation from Russian. In English plus and minus can be nouns but aren’t used together and rarely in the plural: Speaking English is a big plus on today’s job market.
You may use synonyms of advantages and disadvantages:
• pros and cons
• upsides and downsides
• benefits and drawbacks
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▶️ Please translate the following:
Universitetda o’qish plus va minus taraflari bor.
❌ Perhaps you think it is:
Studying at University has pluses and minuses.
✅ Well, it should be:
❓Why?
❗️University is only capitalized when it’s part of a proper name, like "Cambridge University", not otherwise.
❗️Pluses and minuses is a translation from Russian. In English plus and minus can be nouns but aren’t used together and rarely in the plural: Speaking English is a big plus on today’s job market.
You may use synonyms of advantages and disadvantages:
• pros and cons
• upsides and downsides
• benefits and drawbacks
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