#19 Correct me if you can

▶️ Find the mistake in the following sentence:

Nobody doesn’t have any time.

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#20 Correct me if you can

▶️ Find the mistake in the following sentence:

Most of people were born before 2000.

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#146 Our favourite mistakes: Writing

▶️ Look at the following sentences:
I think, this is a good idea.
Because, there are many problems.
But, I disagree with this statement.

❓What’s wrong here?
❗️ There should not be any commas.

❓Why?
❗️ The problem is overgeneralisation. You have seen sentence starters like these:
- However, …
- Firstly, …
- On the other hand, …

These all have commas, but that doesn’t mean everything must have commas.

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#1 Odd Man Out

🆕 Here’s your chance to check whether you’ve learned your lessons from our favourite #mistakes – find the odd man out, that is the one item that doesn’t fit in.

▶️ Pay attention to your pronunciation when reading the following sentence:

She looked into the mirror, changed her dress again, called her fiancé and waited for him impatiently.

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Our favourite mistakes #147: Pronunciation

▶️ Try pronouncing the following words:
• confidence
• distance
• development
• government
• helpless
• speechless

❓What do these words have in common?

❗️ Words ending in -ence/-ance, -ment and -less are pronounced with schwa (ə), just like the last letter in борми.
• kɒnfɪdəns
• dɪstəns
• dɪveləpmənt
• gʌvənmənt
• helpləs
• spi:ʧləs

👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #pronunciation

▶️ Afandi English is over 3 years old now and there’s a ton of stuff you’ve missed. Here are some hashtags for posts about language learning:

#correct
Check if you can spot some common mistakes.

#grammar
Brush up your grammar.

#ielts
Get the DOs and DON’Ts of preparing for IELTS.

#learn2learn
Take advice on how to learn a foreign language.

#mistakes
The biggest collection of Uzbek learners’ typical mistakes in English – at your fingertips.

#oddmanout
See if you can find the mistake.

#pronunciation
Fix your pronunciation problems, one at a time.

#self_study
Sit down and help yourself. Interesting videos plus script plus activities.

#tongue_twisters
Work on your pronunciation and fluency in one go.

#uni_vocab
Understand university-related vocabulary.

#vocabulary
Learn about lexical problems and pick the right words next time.

#world_englishes
Realise that English is a world language and prepare for the worst. Or the best?

#writing
Say goodbye to your most common and unnecessary writing mistakes.

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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