[其他]English lesson 7

(English lesson 7)



A person from China sent me an email. But there are some mistakes. I believe you can learn from his mistakes too.
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This is his email :


Thanks very much. Will you write to me in English?
Yes, I ever told you that I'm a chemistry teacher.
Perhaps my writing is not too polite to envey my respection. Do not mind, please. If you have time to cerect them. I will very happy. (whether i can say, ‘It's my honor.’)

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There are six parts which have some mistakes .

1) Thanks very much.
2) I ever told you that I'm a chemistry teacher.
3) I will very happy.
4) Perhaps my writing is not too polite to envey my respection.
5) Do not mind, please.
6) (whether I can say ‘It's my honor.’)


1) For the first sentence ‘Thanks very much.’. It should be ‘Thank you very much.’ / ‘Thanks.’ or ‘Thanks a lot.’


2) For the sentence ‘I ever told you I am a teacher.’ , although people can understand what you mean, we should try not to use the chinese word (曾经〕in this way.


We should say,

(1) 'Did I ever tell you that I am a chemistry teacher?\"
(2) \"I told you that . . .\"


3) For the sentence ‘I will very happy.’, you have to put the word \"be\". The correct sentence is ‘I will be very happy.’ The word ‘be’ belongs to ‘is, are, am, was, were, ...’ When u can’t put the words ‘is , are , am ,,...’, you can replace them with ‘be’.

Take for example, we say, ‘This girl is naughty.’ We say, ‘Don’t be naughty.’ We can’t say, ‘Don’t am/is/are naughty.’ So we use the word ‘be’ to replace ‘am/is/are’ So we would say, ‘Don’t be naughty.’

We say, ‘You are happy.’ But we can’t say, ‘Don’t are happy.’ So we use the word ‘be’ again. We would say, ‘Don’t be happy.’

We can’t say, ‘I will am/is/are happy.’ So we use the word ‘be’. We say, ‘I will be happy.’


4) For the sentence ‘Perhaps my writing is not too polite to envey my respection.’,  

Maybe you can say,
‘Perhaps my writing is not good enough to convey how much i respect you.’
‘Perhaps my writing is not good enough to convey my gratefulness.’
‘Perhaps my writing is not so polite. This is because I am not so good at English.’

You can put them in two or even three sentences. White people like to say a thing in two or three sentences. They like to put it in simple sentences. Don’t put all the things u want to say in one sentence. That would confuse others.


5) For the sentence ‘Do not mind, please.’, it is grammatically correct. But it is wrong if you say that when you make a mistake. When you make a mistake, you should say, ‘I am sorry.’ It sounds funny if you make a mistake and you ask people not to take it to heart.

You only can ask people ‘Don’t take it to heart.’ when you console someone.

When you do the wrong thing, you say, ‘I am so sorry. I don’t mean it. Please forgive me.’


6) For the sentence (whether I can say, ‘It's my honor.’), it can be (or I can say, ‘It is my honor.’). Replace the word ‘whether’ with ‘or’. It is just a very small mistake.

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In another email, he also made some mistakes.

The sentence ‘Would you tell me what's your job?’ has some mistake. It has double questions. You should say,

‘Would you tell me what your job is?’
‘What is your job?’


Same thing, you can't say, ‘Can you please tell me where are you from?’ because there are two questions in the sentence. You should say,

‘Can you please tell me where you are from?’
‘Where are you from?’

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