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The link to the videocast & podcast channel on telegram: https://t.me/englishwithmo7ammad TRANSCRIPT: Hello and welcome to Mistake Break, the podcast that helps talk without regrets!  Today, let's talk about things you wish you hadn’t done in the past  "I now regret not to have worked harder at school." The feeling is very clear, but the grammar needs a small adjustment. The mistake is the verb form that follows "regret." When we talk about feeling sorry about a past action, we need to say: regret doing it – and not regret to do it So, the correct way to say it is: "I now regret not having worked harder at school."  Or, you could say it more simply: "I now regret not working harder at school." For example: "I regret saying that." Another example: "She regrets eating that last piece of cake." Another way to say it is regret + that + a clause . For example: "Now that it was too late, I regretted that he hadn...

  The link to the videocast & podcast channel on telegram: https://t.me/englishwithmo7ammad Welcome back to Mistake Break, and let’s fix another common English mistake. Let's start with a sentence you may have heard more than once:  "It was so dark that I couldn't see nothing ." Now, you probably understand what it means, but in standard English, it's grammatically incorrect. This is a classic example of what we call "double negative." The rule to remember is very simple: we don't use two negative words in one clause. And in our example, the two negative words are " couldn't " (could not) and " nothing ."  So, how do we fix it? We have two excellent options. Option 1: change the word nothing to anything  This is the most common fix. Since we already have the negative verb "couldn't," we just need to change "nothing" to its neutral partner, "anything." The correct sentence becomes: "...