Can you find these 10 common English mistakes?

How's your English? Find out with this quick quiz. If you get any wrong, follow up by watching the lessons you need, related to each mistake. Improve your English immediately by correcting these basic English errors. Test your knowledge with the quiz: http://www.engvid.com/can-you-find-these-10-common-english-mistakes/

Whose or Who's? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04YAkWJw3Js
It's or Its? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-_vU1WlKTA
Your or You're? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRxod7diTkU
Advice & Advise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCbAx9pZU7k
Bring & Take https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgN088QH598
Lose or Loose? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWHikwIGTvs
They're, There, Their https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3SAngtK4lg
Before & Ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1VAPaJt7_E
Success, Succeed, Successful, Successfully https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCoTL16EaUA
Adverbs of Manner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_BHPv9EYA8

TRANSCRIPT

Hi. I'm Rebecca from engVid. Do you think you speak good English? Well, let's find out. In this lesson we're going to look at 10 common errors made by English students, and let's see if you know the difference between right and wrong. Okay? Let's get started.

So, here's the first one: "Whose this?" or "Who's this?" Now, these are homonyms. That means they're two words that sound the same or almost the same, but they're spelled differently and they have different meanings. So which one is correct in this question? Okay? Think about it. So I hope you said that this is correct. Okay? Because this one is the word we use when we're talking about possession. Okay? "Whose bag is this?", "Whose book is this?" Like that. Okay? But: "Who's this?", "Who's" means: "Who is this?" Okay? Let's go to the next one.

"Its Maria." or "It's Maria." Another homonym. A lot of people get this wrong, so look at it carefully. What should it be? I hope you said that this is correct and this is wrong. Okay? Because this again means: "It is Maria." And the other one is the possessive form. Okay? Now, you'll have a chance to understand all of these in more depth-okay?-more clearly. I'll tell you exactly where to go because we have lessons on every single one of these points in case you get them wrong.

Okay, next: "I think you're beautiful." or "I think your beautiful." Two more homonyms. Which one is correct? Ready? Okay, so it should be... This is right, this is not. Okay? Because again, you want to say in this sentence: "I think you are beautiful", not "your", which is the possessive form, like: "Your bag is on the table." Like that. Okay? This is a very common error made, unfortunately, also by English speakers. But you don't want to do that because you know better.

Next: "Can you advice me?" or "Can you advise me?" Now, here the pronunciation was a little bit different, but which one is correct? Which word do we need here? What do you think? It should be this one, not this. This is the verb. Okay? "Can you advise me?" It almost has a "z" sound, and this with the "c" is the noun. "Can you advice", so that's not right. We can't say: "Can you advice me?" You need to say: "Can you give me some advice?" That would be fine. Then we use the noun, but in this sent-... This question, we say: "Can you advise me?"

Last one on here: "Bring this file over there." or "Take this file over there." Which one is correct? Very common error, kind of a vocabulary issue here. So, the correct answer is: "Take", this is wrong, because we said: "Take this file over there." Okay? So the difference is you take something away from you, and you bring something towards you. Okay? So because we had the word "over there", the direction is away from you, so you needed to say: "Take". Next we'll look at five more. All right?

Okay, number six: "Did you lose your keys?" or "Did you loose your keys?" Okay? You see that there's a spelling difference. There's also a slight pronunciation difference in those two words. So which is the correct answer? It is the first one. Okay? Because this is the verb, "lose", it has one "o", l-o-s-e, and the other word is the word "loose", as in: "His pants are loose." or "His shirt is loose." Okay? So that's not what you want here. You want the verb.

Next. Here you have a choice of three. Okay? See if you can find the right one. "They're going home." or "Their going home." or "There going home." Okay? Again, these are homonyms, three of them that sound almost exactly the same so you must know which word is the right word to use. So, which one is it? I hope you said this one. Okay? These are not correct, because this is a contraction which is two words which are shortened into one, which stands for: "They are going home." Okay? This one: "Their", t-h-e-i-r is a possessive form: "This is their house." And "there" is the opposite of like "here", "there", that kind of thing. Okay?