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let's learn some rules of basic english

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grammar and review 10 common mistakes

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students usually make when trying to

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write or speak in english language

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look at this question

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where i can buy stamps

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where i can buy stamps is it correct

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is it a right question

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no of course not but what's the problem

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well look at this positive sentence

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i can buy stamps

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it's a positive simple present sentence

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if i want to make a yes no question

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out of this positive sentence

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i simply take the auxiliary verb and put

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it in the beginning but what is an

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auxiliary verb an auxiliary verb is a

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verb that is not the main verb of a

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sentence now i can by stamps what is the

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main verb

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so what is can

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can is a modal verb but here it's not

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the main verb so

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it's an auxiliary verb right

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put can in the beginning

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can i buy stamps

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can i buy stamps it's a yes no question

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yes you can no you can't now

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i want you to put a wh word in the

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beginning

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what is a wh word well a wh question

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word can be what

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where

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why can i buy stamps

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when can i buy stamps

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where can i buy stamps

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and this is a complete full question

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why can i buy stamps because maybe you

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want to buy

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when can i buy stamps whenever you want

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where can i buy stamps i don't know from

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a supermarket

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instead of saying where i can buy stamps

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which is wrong you should say where can

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i buy stamps in general to make a full

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question you can use this formula

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question word plus auxiliary verb plus

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plus verb and the rest of the sentence

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for example

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where

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do you

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come from

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when do they have a meeting

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these are all questions using this

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formula mistake number two

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is ready my new office

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is ready my new office

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what's wrong with this sentence well

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what's not wrong with it what does it

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even mean is ready my new office

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well look at this positive sentence my

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new office is ready

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how do you make a yes no question

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you put the auxiliary verb in the

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beginning so use the to be verb first is

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my new office ready

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is my new office

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ready so instead of saying is ready my

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new office you should say

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is my new office ready

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comment mistake number three and believe

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me this is a very common mistake

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everybody

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everybody we're tired what's wrong with

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think about it

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it means a group of people all

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people right everybody

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where

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which is the past of r

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so now they are tired

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back then they were tired

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everybody we're tired it sounds right

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but it's completely wrong why because in

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english language for everyone or

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everybody

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someone or somebody we use singular

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so we say everybody

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nobody is ready

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you see is everybody is nobody is

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somebody is we don't say are

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even for the past tense we say everybody

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was nobody was somebody was but we don't

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say where

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therefore this sentence is not correct

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everybody we're tired we should change

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it to everybody was tired next common

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i like very much skiing

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i like very much skiing what's wrong

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very much is an adverb here

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i like very much skiing is completely

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wrong because the place of adverb is not

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where do adverbs go well we know that

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adverbs describe verbs

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i really suggest watching this video

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that i'm going to put

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right here because in this video i have

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talked about adjectives and adverbs so

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don't forget to watch it it's very

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important but

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let's get back to the lesson we use

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adverbs to describe a verb and adverbs

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go either after the verb or

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if the verb has an object it goes after

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the verb phrase what is a verb phrase a

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verb phrase is a verb plus object

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what is the verb here

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like skiing is the verb phrase adverbs

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like skiing very much

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skiing you say i like skiing very much

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you can never use very much between a

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verb and the object

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it must go after the verb and the object

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next common phrase which is in fact a

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very common phrase among students look

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at this sentence

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the soup isn't enough hot

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the soup isn't enough hot what's wrong

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the position of enough is not correct

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enough can go before a noun and you can

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say enough money enough food

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enough goes after the adjectives right

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here's the next common mistake

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i gave to her my address

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is it correct

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give me your number or give your number

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say give to her the card

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give the card to her or give her the

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my address you should say

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i did a mistake i'm sorry i did a

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mistake

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well we don't do a mistake

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we make a mistake so if you want to use

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mistake the verb that collocates with it

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i made a mistake

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i made a terrible mistake

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i made a bad mistake

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i made a horrible mistake he made a

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horrible mistake my father made a

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terrible mistake

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make a mistake not do

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next common mistake is to say

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we went at the seaside on sunday

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what's wrong with this sentence

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we went at the seaside on sunday

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we went when is the past of go right

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the people in this town is very friendly

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mouse is singular mice is plural so you

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very friendly and the last common

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before we get to this one which is very

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i want you to give this video a thumbs

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up

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and don't forget to click subscribe if

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you are new to my channel now let's get

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to this last common mistake it's very

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the news were shocking is it correct

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it's plural right

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where and where is also plural the news

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this is an exception in english language

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this word news

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is not plural it has an s but it's not

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and that's it guys i hope you've learned

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something don't forget to practice see

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you in the next lessons

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