Các từ hay nhầm lẫn :: Confused words
Percent – percentage
Percent (đơn vị) + singular verb
Percentage (con số)
Kind – type
Kind + count noun
Type + noncount noun
Not only… but also – not … but
Not only… but also – cả hai
not N1 … but N2 ® không N1 mà N2.
But = except
I am but a fool à only - chỉ là người khờ dại
No – not – none
No (a) + noun
Not (adv) + verb/ adj
None (pronoun)
Besides – beside
Besides (prep, adv) = in addition to, moreover – hơn nữa, ngoài ra.
Beside (prep) = near, next to – bên cạnh.
Instead of – instead
Instead of + N/ adj/ adv
Instead (adv.). ® at the end of a sentence.
Most (a) – Almost (adv)
Almost all (of the) = most (of the)
After (prep) – Afterward (adv)
After (prep) + phrase – sau.
Afterward (adv) + clause – sau đó.
Around (prep) – Round (a)
Around (prep) - vòng quanh .
Round (a) – tròn.
Somewhere (adv) = slightly
Direct – directly
High – highly
Fast – fastly
Hard
Hard (a) = difficult – khó khăn;
Hardy (a) = rigid - cứng, chắc.
Hard (adv) = with great effort – khó mà. = heavily (rain), strongly (wind), deligently, induostriously (work)
Hardly (adv) = barely, scarely, almost never – khắc nghiệt , khó mà, hầu như không.
Hardly = never à negative meaning à khong dùng “not”
Considerate
Considerate = throughtful, polite (a) – chu đáo.
Considerable (a), rather lager amount or degree – đáng kể.
Real
Real ( slang) = very great (từ lóng)
Whole – Wholly
Wholly = completely – hoàn toàn .
As a whole = generally – tổng quát , nói chung.
Effect (n) – to affect (v)
Alive (a) – to live (v)
As high as – as soon as
As high as = (cost)
As soon as (adv) – (time) + clause ® đứng dầu câu
No longer = not any more (when) – không … nữa .
Can nolonger see…
Sometime – sometimes
 Sometime – at some time in the indefinite future (when) – một lúc nào đó.
Sometimes = occationally (how often) – thỉnh thoảng.
Earliest (a) – Soonest (adv):
Once – one time in the past
Like – as
As (conj) + clause ® sameness
As (prep) + phrase ® sameness (job, robe, fuction, task…) ® với chức năng là.
Like / unlike (prep) + phrase ® similarity ® giống như.
Like (a)
Alike (a) ® at the end of clause;
Unlike (a) + N, clause
Like (v) + V-ing ¹ like + to-inf ¹ Dislike (v)
Do you like … ? ® question.
Would you like + to-inf ® invitation - mời.
Likely (a) – có khả năng.
Ex. Like A, S + V
As a policeman, I want you to… ® I am a policeman
Like a policeman, I… ® I am not a policeman
A is like B. A and B are alike.
It’s likely that + clause
Late
Late (a,adv) – no longer living, not punctual,
Later (adv) – để sau.
Latter ¹ former (a) – last of 2 things mentioned.
Lately (adv) = recently
Last = final (a)
Lastest = renewest, most recent
Near – nearly
Near (prep, adv) = gần (distance)
Nearly (adv) = almost – hầu như.
May be - perhap
It may be + phrase
Perhap (adv) + clause
Raise – rise
Raise – raised – raised (tv) + (obj)
Rise – rose – risen (iv)
Lend - Borrow
Lend – lent – lent ® lend (sb)(sth) = lend (sth) to (sb) – cho mượn.
Borrow – borrowed – borrowed ® borrow (sb)(sth) = borrow (sth) from (sb) – đi mượn.
Let – Leave
Let – let – let (tv) ® let (sb) + bare – inf – để yên, hãy.
Leave – left – left (iv) ® leave (sb/sth) + place – bỏ lại ở…
Tell – say
Tell – told – told (tv) ® tell (sb) (sth) – nói.
Say – said – said (iv) ® say (sth) …
Ex. To tell joke
To tell the truth.
Set – sit
Set – set – set ® set (sb/sth) + place – đặt, để tại.
Sit – sat – sat ® sit + place – ngồi xuống …
Lay – lie
Lay – laid – laid (tv) ® lay (sb/sth) – đặt, để xuống .
Lie – lay – lain (iv) ® lie + place – nằm xuống …
To used to
Used to + inf ® discontinue habit – thói quen trong quá khứ.
Be used to + inf ® passive
Be used to + V-ing ® quen với.
Get used to + V-ing = be accustomed to + V-ing ® trở nên quen với .
Mind ® object to – phản đối.
A. do you mind + V-ing? Would you mind + V-ing? – có phiền không ?
B. No, I don’t mind at all
B. Not at all
Please
Would you please / Please + bare-inf.
The mecican government
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