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one of the best ways of improving your

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English grammar is by learning from

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common grammatical mistakes

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hello my name is Maddie from POC English

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and in this lesson we are going to see

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10 Common grammatical mistakes with

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regard to countable and uncountable

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nouns I'm going to show you 10 sentences

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you will have to look at the sentences

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and think about what the possible

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mistake can be and then I will explain

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begin with the lesson of today and

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here's the first sentence how many

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luggages did you bring with yourself

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what's wrong with this sentence

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the problem is with the word luggage

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luggage is anything we take with

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ourselves when we travel right

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but pay attention this word is not

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countable it's an uncountable noun so

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you cannot say luggages but what can I

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say if I want to say one or two or three

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you can't say two luggages no what you

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can do is to say a piece of luggage one

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piece of luggage two pieces of luggage

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three pieces of luggage but not luggages

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another thing you can do is to replace

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the word luggage with

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suitcase then you can say I have two

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suitcases I have three suitcases I only

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have one small suitcase so that's lesson

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number one luggage is not countable you

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can either say a piece of luggage or

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suitcase suitcases and now common

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mistake number two look at this sentence

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latest researchers have given us a

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better life

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what's wrong with it

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the problem is with the word research

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now pay attention research as a noun is

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uncountable you cannot say one research

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two research has three researches no

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it's uncountable you should say research

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now to fix this sentence I can say

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latest research have no no no because

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research is singular here we say

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research has so this is the correct

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sentence latest research has given us a

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better life so lesson number two

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research is uncountable as a noun now

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let's get to the third common mistake

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look at this sentence that gem is really

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expensive because of all its modern

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equipments

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this sounds normal

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what's wrong with it

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the problem is with the word equipment

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because in English equipment is

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uncountable you cannot count equipments

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and say one equipment two equipment no

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no no no no no so to correct this

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sentence we should say that gym is

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really expensive because of all its

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modern equipment not equipment

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alternatively instead of equipment you

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can say amenities now pay attention

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amenity is countable it means facility

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huh so you can say amenity or facility

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both of them are accountable amenities

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facilities but equipment is not

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countable now pay attention to this

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sentence to find out the common mistake

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number four the news this morning were

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terrible prices are increasing again

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what's wrong with this sentence

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now the mistake is about the word news

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now pay attention news has an S so is it

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plural no it's not plural it's singular

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what is the plural form of the news it

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does not have plural form or a singular

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form the news itself is singular now if

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we are using the news then our verb if

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we are having a 2B verb should be

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singular the problem here is with the

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verb where now instead of saying the

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news where we should say the news was

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singular verb pay attention the news was

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or the news is not where

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now what if I want to talk about one

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particular news should I say one news no

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you can say a piece of news yes that is

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correct but not common it does not feel

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natural a better way is to say news item

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a news item or news items for example

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all the news items were sad this morning

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now this is correct but I cannot say all

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the news were sad no

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the news is sad or was sad the news

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items were set

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I live on the outskirt of the city

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what's wrong with this

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the problem is with the word outskirt it

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should be outskirts why

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outskirts means the other part of a town

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or a city if this is the city the outer

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part the surrounding area the outer

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layer of the town is called the

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outskirts it does not have a singular

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form we don't have outskirt no it's

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outskirts with an S all right this is

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always a plural noun so you should say I

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live on the outskirts of the city now

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pay attention sometimes students use

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this with the wrong preposition so for

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example they say in the outskirts or at

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the outskirts the correct preposition is

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on the outskirts of a city common

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mistake number six look at this sentence

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the fishmonger weighed out three

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kilograms of fishes

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what's wrong with this

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three kilograms of fishes that's the

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mistake fish is uncountable so you

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cannot say fishes or one fish two fishes

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three fishes that's wrong you can say

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one fish or three fish I saw three fish

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in the tank where I can see three fish

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in the tank either as the animal or when

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you were talking about the food I ate

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one kilogram of fish or my mom cooked

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five kilograms of fish because we had a

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big party so we never say fishes unless

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fish is a noun that has an irregular

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plural what does it mean it means we

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normally don't use fishes we only use it

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if and only if we are talking about

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different kinds and different types and

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tank singular we have three fish in our

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tank it means we have three fish of the

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if I say we have three fishes in our

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tank I mean we have three different

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types of fish in our tank three

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different species they're all different

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talking about different species or

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different types of fish

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common mistake number seven look at this

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sentence and tell me what is wrong with

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it the sceneries in Switzerland are

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beautiful

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it sounds like a normal sentence but

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what's wrong with it

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the word scenery means what you can see

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from a natural environment especially

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when it's beautiful look at the scenery

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wow however pay attention this word is

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not countable you cannot say a beautiful

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scenery or wow two beautiful sceneries

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only scenery it's uncountable so to

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correct this sentence the only thing you

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have to do is to replace the word

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sceneries with scenery right no what

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about the word r yes you should change

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the verb from R to is and this is the

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correct sentence the scenery in

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Switzerland is beautiful

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oh look at this one the police is aware

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of the crime

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this is completely normal

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is it wrong

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the problem is with the word is because

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the police is a plural noun

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the police are

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police is plural but what is the

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singular form of the police well in that

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case if you're talking about people who

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are members of the police you should

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either refer to them as cops One Cop two

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cops three cups oh my God Ron the cops

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are coming

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or police officer one police officer two

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police officers three police officers

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but all of them together are the police

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and the police are the police is plural

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right the word is plural so you should

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say the police are you can also say a

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policeman or a policewoman but pay

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attention the plural of these two

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these two policemen police women however

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it's easier to say police officer if you

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are speaking in a formal way or cops if

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you're talking in an informal manner

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common mistake number nine look at this

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sentence my uncle is a professor of

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what's wrong

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economic is an adjective you cannot be

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the professor of economic economic what

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as an adjective the word economic needs

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a noun okay economic climate of the

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country economic decisions of the

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factory or the company

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but you cannot teach economic economic

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what you teach at University or what you

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learn at University is not economic it's

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economics economics is the science of

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economy that's economics and pay

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attention this word is always plural

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because we don't have economic it's

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economics as a noun as an adjective it's

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economic so my uncle is a professor of

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Economics that's the correct way and

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finally common mistake number 10 pay

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attention to this one we need to gather

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new informations about the subject

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we need to gather new informations about

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the subject what's wrong

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the word information is not countable

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you cannot say informations but what if

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I want to talk about one in that case I

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should say a piece of information

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we received a valuable piece of

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information this can help us a lot so a

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piece of information two pieces of

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information but we never say

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informations and that's it guys I hope

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you've learned a lot from this lesson

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don't forget to practice don't forget to

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check notes of the common mistakes and

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