I think I read that they no longer teach that in England because it's apparently wrong more often than it's right. Having said that, a lot of people tend to leave out the next phrase, "unless it is sounded as 'a', as in 'neighbour' and 'weigh'".
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I think I read that they no longer teach that in England because it's apparently wrong more often than it's right. Having said that, a lot of people tend to leave out the next phrase, "unless it is sounded as 'a', as in 'neighbour' and 'weigh'".
As a native English speaker when I was a kid I found sweet and sweat confusing.
I would see the word sweat and think it was sweet. When you see the word EAT and add SW to the front of it the EAT part has a completely different sound.
I would see the word sweat and think it was sweet. When you see the word EAT and add SW to the front of it the EAT part has a completely different sound.
I find interesting that people who learn English would never do the same mistakes as native speakers.
By the way, the your/you're mistakes are because of "laziness" of people to write you're or are these two confusing/similar to write?
By the way, the your/you're mistakes are because of "laziness" of people to write you're or are these two confusing/similar to write?
I've never had a problem with you're/your, than/then, they're/there/their, or lose/loose. Though I used to used "don't" wrong, instead of using "doesn't".
For example, "It don't matter" is a common thing for American's to say.
It was dating a Korean girl when I lived there and she corrected me when I used it wrong. How embarrassing is that? Now it annoys me when people use them wrong, and to think that people who use English as a second language have better English than native English speakers.