Typical German speaker mistakes in English (2)

I often hear these mistakes made by German speakers who are learning English.

 

They say:  We meet us tomorrow at 9.

There are a couple of things wrong with this.

 

Firstly, when we are talking about personal plans in the future (e.g. tomorrow) we use the verb +_ing.

Secondly, we cannot meet ‘us’.  The verb meet is not reflexive in English.

 

So, the correct sentence is:

We are meeting tomorrow at 9.

 

Have fun learning English!

Louise

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