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#319 5 Common Grammar Mistakes Learners Make

RealLife English: Learn and Speak Confident, Natural English

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Grammar Mistakes That People Make About Articles

There's an exception to this rule and that's it has more to do with sound actually. So if there's a used truck, what's the article that you use here? Most learners would say an used truck because used starts with a U, which is a vowel in fact but used, how does that sound? It's a yeah, yeah, yeah. And yeah, that's more of like a Y sound right? That's a consonant. So it should be a used truck. We use the when we want to be specific, like, can you pass the red pen would be like, I don't know if there's three pens and there's one that's blue,

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