Useful Words

Really, really, really useful words.

be like: v.; (informal); say
dictate: v.; To order, command, control.; To speak in order for someone to write down the words.
get: v.; (informal); become; understand
go: v.; (informal); say
hypothetical: adj.; Based upon a hypothesis; conjectural.; n.; A hypothetical situation or proposition.
operative: adj.; Effectual or important.
tangent: n.; A topic nearly unrelated to the main topic, but having a point in common with it.
transpose: v.; To reverse or change the order of (two or more things); to swap or interchange.; The letters n and s in the word "trasnposed" are transposed.
ya boi: pron.; I, me, myself; It's ya boi here serving you some fresh content!

Mistakes

a: Some use the indefinite article a (or an) even when the word is uncountable! You don't use the indefinite article with uncountable nouns!
can: Russians; Some use "can" when they mean "will" or "would" or "could". Some use it when it's not even needed at all! Make sure your use of "can" mirrors natives!
the: French, Spanish; Some use "the" for abstractions like Romance languages do. However, we do not use "the" this way in English - we just leave it out!
to: Russians; Some use "to" with some auxiliary verbs when it's not necessary, for example, saying "I can to speak English.". Make sure you study which verbs take which form. Some take the to-infinitive, like "I need to go to the store". Some take the bare infinitive, like "I can go to the store". Some take the past participle, like "I have gone to the store". Some take multiple, depending on which meaning of the verb is used: "I have gone to the store" versus "I have to go to the store". These two sentences mean very different things!
lack of articles: Russians; Some forget to use articles when they are necessary!
statements as questions: French; Some ask questions without inverting the word order. In English, when we ask questions, we nearly always invert the word order:

Do you go to the mall often?

Versus:

You go to the mall often?