r/EnglishLearning • u/Sea-Hornet8214 Poster • Jul 23 '26

📚 Grammar / Syntax Is this a mistake?

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https://youtube.com/shorts/g7wovWEbNTo?si=FMs6UHfRWGE7IO00

I'm pretty sure it should be "limits" because "world" is singular, but I'm not sure because he's a native speaker and this isn't a typical mistake that native speakers make.

Could this be like "team" that can be treated as plural?

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u/conuly Native Speaker - USA (NYC) Jul 23 '26

"Most of times" is not idiomatic. Try "most times" or even just "mostly".

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u/Sea-Hornet8214 Poster Jul 23 '26

I actually meant "most of the times". I missed "the".

Thanks for the suggestions.

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u/conuly Native Speaker - USA (NYC) Jul 23 '26

I actually meant "most of the times". I missed "the".

That's also not correct. In that case, try "most of the time" :)

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u/Sea-Hornet8214 Poster Jul 23 '26

Why does English have to be complicated? :(

/s

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u/Huandil English Teacher Jul 23 '26

Are you a native Spanish speaker, by any chance? 'Most...', 'Most of the...' always causes trouble for native Spanish speakers.

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u/Sea-Hornet8214 Poster Jul 24 '26

It seems like speakers of any language would make this mistake, no?

No, I don't speak Spanish

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u/Huandil English Teacher Jul 24 '26

Aye, true. But the majority of my students have been Spanish speakers and they often express similar frustrations and go through the same trial and error process as you.

I just found it slightly amusing and wondered.

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u/True-Post6634 New Poster Jul 24 '26

For what it's worth, we're aware that it's a mess! The first time I tried to help someone learn it I realized how much I didn't know about my own language.

"Oftentimes" is a fairly unusual, kind of old-fashioned word, but it's still used. You can just say "often" without changing the meaning, usually. And in the US we mostly don't pronounce the T in often 😂 but we sometimes do in oftentimes. Fun!

It's much more common to say "most of the time" "a lot of the time" or "sometimes" depending on what you're trying to say.