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hello and welcome back to real English

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with real teachers the majority of

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English learners try their best to use

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English as purposefully and carefully as

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possible avoiding ground mistakes and

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speaking with precision as best they can

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they burn the language they pass their

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IELTS exam they come to the UK they get

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a job and then what if their colleagues

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comes up to them and said something like

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oh I make Leonard's antenna

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I don't know money they hear these

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baffling abbreviations like in it ain't

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we're using the incorrect pronouns but

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how bad is our grammar really and how

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does it compare to the grammar of

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Anglophones from other english-speaking

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nations well chai and I are going to put

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that to the test today we're gonna get

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on the train go to London and speak to

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as many native English speakers as

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possible and give them a grammar test

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everything flying to test in here what

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about these guys

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hey you were I would have helped you if

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enjoy that guide and make sure you leave

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a comment and tell us how your first

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lesson was this is incorrect it should

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be I would and that's common mistake

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people make it's not yeah see II

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wouldn't I would have felt you practice

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yeah why not

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I would have helped you if I was there

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maybe incorrect okay they may be

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incorrect can you correct that for us

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yeah I'll give it a shot

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well okay over there if you

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yeah yeah that's the best I can do

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am i right

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and there might be another one hang on I

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think there's another one are you done

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well no I think there could be another

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one yeah you make in case it's wrong

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in case it's wrong you'd do it and then

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you can take the blame I think it's W e

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if I were there I would have helped you

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if I were there I think yeah I'm gonna

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go back yeah yeah

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so the incorrect sentence was if I was

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there I would off help you now Joe and

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Lea put if I were there and that's okay

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and many people do say that but this was

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in fact a third conditional something in

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the past something we can't change from

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the past

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therefore we should have put if I had

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been there I would have helped you so

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here we have the same mistake as first

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one again we have the interference of

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that tricky schwa sound so it should be

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wood or wood half

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whoo well the lovely ear drum is

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beautiful in his naughty behavior

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affected me deeply his naughty behavior

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affected me deeply all right I guess

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that's the wrong effective okay so we've

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got today they write effectively

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effective effective the first one was

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these naughty behavior affected me

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deeply to the verb begins with an A and

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then here we had the now it had a

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profound effect on me so why is he so

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confusing for native speakers why can't

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they remember how to spell the verb and

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how to spell the noun is because the

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majority of people pronounce them

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exactly the same so if we look at three

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different articulations of the word

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affect then now we have effect affect

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and effect and the most common of the

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three is the middle one effect and guess

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what it's exactly the same as the

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articulation for this one effect so

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native speaker thinks to themselves why

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should I spell it any differently if

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we're articulating and pronouncing it in

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exactly the same way is confusing and

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that's why we make this mistake there's

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a lot of shops in Covent Garden there's

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a lot of shops in Covent Garden so

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looking at it and that's nice that's a

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capital that's a capital

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there are oh yeah there are a lot of

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shops there is yeah there's a lot a lot

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yeah a lot as two words of shops in

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Baden I think that's a perfect sentence

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wasn't there as you know there are a lot

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of shops in Covent Garden is it singular

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or plural so there you go native English

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speakers from all over the world make

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ground mistakes so what to take home

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message from this video well if you are

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someone who cares too much about making

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grown mistakes and it's stopping you

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from speaking fluently then I hope this

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reassures you that it's okay to make

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mistakes the main purpose of learning a

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language is to be able to communicate

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with people around you so if your

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English allows you to do that that's

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brilliant and don't worry too much about

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making mistakes thank you very much for

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joining us today and see you again soon

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for another video

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