Testing native speakers' grammar

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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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I was there