http://www.engvid.com/ I'm sure "you seen" it before, but that doesn't make it right. This lesson will help you understand and correct three very common grammar mistakes that even many native English speakers make every day. Test your understanding of this lesson with the quiz: http://www.engvid.com/i-seen-it-and-other-stupid-mistakes/
Many thanks for this lesson, it was very educational :) I wish you could make more videos about this topic as we, ESL-students, do beleive whatever we see in movies or series and we start using some phrases or grammar constructions, which are incorrect (but we don't know that). Thanks again!
It isn't a work of respectable quality. I have had the experience of viewing that content. Given my experience and my knowledge of your personality, I suggest not viewing that content.
"Yo man, it ain't that good, I won't see it if I was you!"
"I seen it too, it ain't that good, he's right!!"
"I was thinking to myself, I need some new friends" ROFL 🤣
Hi James, is 'a couple of' a proper word for grouping a several things together? Or is it a proper/correct phrase to use as a "group word"? Any video for this please? Thank you
I can justify the "I seen it" by that it's easier to pronounce than "I saw it", as in the latter there is a hard-to-pronounce combination of vowels. Considering that letter "w" in the word "saw" sounds like a vowel [u], we basically have 3 vowels in a row. That's damn hard to pronounce. Now on the other hand we got the "I seen it", which is perfectly easy to pronounce even though it ain't correct grammatically.
Now my native language pays A LOT of attention to stuff like that, so in it, "I seen it" would've become a norm long ago. But I see it becoming a norm of speaking in English in future too, as language is constantly developing.
JAJAJAJA I LOVED THIS VIDEO.. THANKS FOR TEACHING US THESE BIG MISTAKES AND GREETINGS FROM NICARAGUA. I AM TRYING TO IMPROVE MY ENGLISH WITH THIS VIDEOS AND I HAVE LEARNED A LOT OF THINGS.-
I saw James videos he's a good English teacher ,his lessons has helped me a lot , thank you James If I were I would be happy for being intellect as you are
While James may be a competent teacher the editorializing in this video was unnecessary and at times incorrect. First: English is not a prescribed language, unlike French for example. Second: There are many variations of English out there (call them dialects or creoles or whatever). To disparage his friend from 'the ghetto' (really?) as sounding stupid was stupid. Ghetto speak, Ebonics, Black American English. Call it what you will, but it isn't 'bad' English. Now if you want to talk about register etc, then you have a subject to expand and expound on.
Erik Sandberg "Ghetto speak, Ebonics, Black American English" result from marginalisation of black people by the white majority population. Education was prohibited for enslaved Africans, who adopted the language of the poor, uneducated whites that they were "closest" too. It is bad English, and it's pervasive. Black people that can't/won't break the habit of speaking poorly find themselves in poorly paid employment, if at all.
I picked up saying "I seen" or even better "I done seen" as a total joke. Now I say it to people who don't get my humor and it's this whole thing I have to explain.
Hi James,,,, what a good lesson isnt it? :) I really love the way you're teaching,,,, :) by the way, could you help me to explain to us what's the difference between SEIZE and FORECLOSE is,,, thanks :) sincerely
I really enjoy this video but I also have some questions,
For number 1, I think "has/have seen" is the only correct form to express the sentence, "I have seen the movie." We use Present Perfect to say our experience or something happens in the past with no specific time signal. Could you explain why saw and had seen are also correct?
For number 3, If I was a doctor, If I was there... (possible). While, If I were God, If I were a bird (impossible). That is what my teacher said for the using of was and were.
Can anybody help me?
ain't is the spoken form and is widely used in real conversations! I disliked the video (for the 1st time actually) coz phrases with ain't sound STUNNING - use them to be a real nigga :)
Hello can you help me to do this exercise please.
exercice
a paragraph in negative sentences
Use these verbs:
take, talk, try, tell, turn, travel, teach, send, speak, spend, hope, create, start, be, can, do, see, sell, swim, decide, need...please do not use all the verbs in negative, just few
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