hello everyone and welcome back to english with lucy today we are going to be talking about some common english mistakes normally made in spoken english but also sometimes in written english naturally these tend to be made by people who are learning english but there are quite a few mistakes in here that native speakers also make so you're not alone this is a very difficult language in this video i'm going to take the incorrect sentences and provide you with the corrections so you can really get them into your head there is also a free pdf that goes with today's lesson it's got everything that we're going to talk about today plus a quiz at the end so you can practice what you've learned and make sure you don't repeat those mistakes if you'd like to download that just click on the link in the description box you enter your name and your email address you sign up to my mailing list the pdf will arrive directly in your inbox and then every week after that you will automatically receive my lesson pdfs along with all of my news course updates and offers before we get started i just have a quick message from the sponsor of today's video it is lingoda europe's number one trusted language school have you heard about the lingoda language sprint it is an intensive language challenge where you take either NUMBER_TOKEN or NUMBER_TOKEN language lessons a month for three months as a huge motivational push you can get NUMBER_TOKEN cashback if you attend all of your lessons or NUMBER_TOKEN cashback if you take the lighter sprint option you can take the sprint in english business english french german or spanish from beginner to advanced level lingoda is amazing because they have incredible qualified teachers and their group sizes are so small you can attend classes NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN from anywhere in the world their classes are of such high quality with lots of speaking practice and interaction i recently asked a load of my followers who has done a language sprint can you tell me about your experience and so many came back to me and so many of them had received their refunds it was crazy lots of them said that it was a real challenge but that cashback motivation really pushed them to achieve they also spoke incredibly highly of the teachers they got to meet lots of different teachers participate in lots of groups and learn really specific vocabulary and all the different lessons that you can choose from so are you ready to start your sprint join now just click on the link in the description box and use my code right here to get a NUMBER_TOKEN euro discount on your deposit don't forget to check the faq section before joining to make sure that it's right for you i am very excited for you best of luck and i can't wait to hear your feedback when you finish right let's get started with the speaking mistakes okay the first mistake is the misuse of less and fewer and this is a mistake that i myself make i hear will make it a lot i hear my mum make it i don't know if it's regional i think it's just a mistake that native speakers make a lot of the time if you manage to use less and fewer correctly then you can confidently say that you speak better than a lot of native speakers including me let's take a look at this sentence it's incorrect i warn you don't write it down there are less people than yesterday there are less people than yesterday this should be corrected to there are fewer people than yesterday why is this well we use less with uncountable nouns and fewer
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN have a quick message from the sponsor of today's video it is lingoda europe's number one trusted language school have you heard about the lingoda language sprint it is an intensive language challenge where you take either NUMBER_TOKEN or NUMBER_TOKEN language lessons a month for three months as a huge motivational push you can get NUMBER_TOKEN cashback if you attend all of your lessons or NUMBER_TOKEN cashback if you take the lighter sprint option you can take the sprint in english business english french german or spanish from beginner to advanced level lingoda is amazing because they have incredible qualified teachers and their group sizes are so small you can attend classes NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN from anywhere in the world their classes are of such high quality with lots of speaking practice and interaction i recently asked a load of my followers who has done a language sprint can you tell me about your experience and so many came back to me and so many of them had received their refunds it was crazy lots of them said that it was a real challenge but that cashback motivation really pushed them to achieve they also spoke incredibly highly of the teachers they got to meet lots of different teachers participate in lots of groups and learn really specific vocabulary and all the different lessons that you can choose from so are you ready to start your sprint join now just click on the link in the description box and use my code right here to get a NUMBER_TOKEN euro discount on your deposit don't forget to check the faq section before joining to make sure that it's right for you i am very excited for you best of luck and i can't wait to hear your feedback when you finish END_SPONSOR_TOKEN