2-Minute Tip: Never Say "I'll Explain You The Problem"
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2-Minute Tip: Never Say "I'll Explain You The Problem"

B1IntermediateOctober 1, 20262 min
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Welcome to your 2-Minute Tip - a short, practical English lesson for your busy day. Learn it in two minutes... use it for years! Fix your English errors fast! Many English mistakes aren't because the grammar is "difficult" - instead, they're from small differences between English and your native language. Learning these patterns helps you sound much more natural and avoid errors that native speakers notice immediately. Check out my 200 Common English Errors Course to learn the most frequent mistakes English learners make and how to fix them for good.

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So we explain something to someone.

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a subject and verb.

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Welcome to your two-minute tip, a short practical English lesson for your busy day. Learn it in two minutes. Use it for years. Here's a mistake I hear all the time. Don't say, I'll explain you the rules.

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But in English, explain is never followed directly by a person. Instead, say, I'll explain the rules to you. Or, let me explain the process to you. She explained the problem to me.

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So we explain something to someone. There's also another very common way to use explain, and that is explain plus that and a subject and verb. For example, he explained that the meeting had been canceled.

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