u/FarJournalist939

This is from a YouTube short. They're playing a game.

I hear "oh, sometimes you just [____] and you know what, that's fine."

What does he say after just? I hear something like "has to shake it" but that doesn't make any sense.

Does it sound weird? It's supposed to mean that there have been times when my dad woke up and I hadn't gone to sleep yet.

I've been watching her videos for a while, and even though she mostly sounds American to me, I can kind of hear a foreign accent. I just want to know what she sounds like to Americans.

If I'm talking about just one single style (say blue jeans), which one sounds more natural? "There's also this kind of pants" or "there's also these kinds of pants"? Google says they're both correct, but I want to hear what native speakers have to say about it

It didn’t take long for Gracie to spot her. Partly because the airport was not very crowded this Thanksgiving morning, but mostly because of her getup. Black pinstripes ran down her white satin blouse, which was neatly tucked into the faux-leather miniskirt. Beneath the open collar of the shirt hung a loose, bright necktie, matching the red ribbon she used to secure her blonde topknot. And of course, high heels—mid-calf, white, red-bottomed boots worn over her sheer tights.

I do this all the time in the morning when I'm running late to shave off a minute or two... I was wondering if other people do it too or if I'm just weird. Especially women, but men too if you guys pee while sitting down I guess.

I figure that this is somewhat of an unusual question, so let me explain. I'm on a language exchange app called HelloTalk, and I constantly get messages from people who lie about being native English speakers from the US. Some of them are easy to spot from the way they write, but sometimes I just can't really tell.

This is why I thought of creating a simple question that's supposed to be easy for native speakers but hard for advanced learners. Here it is:

>A) It's good to make nice gestures
B) I'm gonna kick you out of the team
C) I suggest you drink more water
D) I arrived to Illinois yesterday

>Which ones are right? Correct the ones that are wrong

What do you guys think? Do you think this question is a good way to tell if someone is lying? Of course no test is perfect. There will be false negatives and false positives. But is it good enough? Any suggestions?

(I'm exclusively looking for native speakers because my goal is to be indistinguishable from one. I'm fully aware that a lot of non-native speakers actually know grammar rules better and are better at explaining them, but that's not what I'm looking for. I'm looking for someone who can tell me if the preposition I used is not the one an American would've used, if I used an unidiomatic word, etc.)

EDIT: Thanks everyone. I'm gonna change sentence A.

>It was Friday, the last day of classes, and Arthur had asked Gracie to schedule one more tutoring session before [she’d leave/she left] for Fall Break—this time, back at his house.

This is the sentence. Gracie is the POV character for the scene. Are they both correct?

I wrote this scene for Chapter 5 of my work in progress and it makes me cry every time I read it. My character is just having a vision of her dad (who recently passed away, but the reader doesn't know this yet) and then she opens her eyes and the vision vanishes. It's so stupid but it gets me every time. IDK. Have you guys ever experienced something similar with a passage you've written? And no my dad isn't dead or anything like that.

>“Dude, that’s why it’s so cold in here?” He chuckled. “I thought y’all northerners liked it like this. Tell you what, I’ll give you fifty bucks a month and we set it to a comfortable sixty-nine. Deal?”

Hi! My goal is to sound like a native speaker of American English. How close am I? Thanks!

https://voca.ro/1b9QnClyDDLK

>“I’m saying that the way he worded the clause in the trust concerned with our inheritance, legally if one marriage is deemed fraudulent, the entire clause is nullified.”

This sentence is from a novel (The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren). Isn't it missing a word? Like, I would expect "I'm saying that given the way he worded the clause..." or "I'm saying that because of the way he worded the clause..."

Is it an editorial oversight or is it actually correct?