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I also learned English from textbooks, and one of the strangest things I encountered that native speakers routinely confuse "their, there, they're" which I never thought was a mistake I could make. It would be like confusing 'wet' and 'vet'. So there's definitely a difference between native and non-native speakers use the language.


The people who confuse that mostly have not done very much reading. Audibly, those words are identical.


Even crazier:

“Could of”.

Like “You could of said so”.




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