Can You Spell?

No need to worry about many of these (these are merely a sampling of the common ones, not a comprehensive list of errors). And while you should absolutely not be embarrassed to find mistakes in the beginning, for most grammarians they are just the early stages of learning the language. For more detail on many of these errors (and a list of pointers on how to get most of them straight if you find you must), check out my home page at www.Olivier-Jegouville.org a. The informal plural of simple tense Some grammarians only treat singular finite verbs as having a unique kind of verbal phrase—a "simple" tense that merely changes its ending to -ing (see, for example, Sumnall 2008; 659). But in fact, the very way these words become plural in English (e.g., "her-eat") is similar to how pronouns in other languages become plural: i.e., the simplest form of an existing compound construct, when kept around long enough, also transforms into a newly construct plurality, and only th...

Improving your English grammar requires a lot of reading and writing.  Unfortunately, English grammar books aren't cheap. However, you can afford to study reading and writing when you save a few bucks. The biggest financial benefit of using a grammar book is the teaching resources and resources for practice. However, there is also an easier way to study your grammar.  If you want to study English grammar, you are going to need grammar books.  There are many grammar books and dictionaries to choose from.  Of course, there are grammar books that come with grammar exercises to help you study.  The biggest advantage to using a grammar book is that it is cheaper than other means. However, there is a drawback too. Some grammar books are too expensive. However, as a student, you are going to have to pay for your books so you can learn.  I have read a lot of online courses about grammar and they will teach you a lot.  I read several books. I tried learning var...

  To avoid English grammar mistakes, there are several ideas that can be applied. Let's go through them and learn some forms 1. Verbs Where do the verbs in the sentence come from? Before you begin to form new sentences, check and make sure that the object of a verb is regular. If it's irregular, do not think of using the regular object in place of the irregular one. Here are the new words: I am finished with lesson 17. The cat is dead. When you use these words, the word "complete" is used in place of the word "did" that we will use to complete the lesson. I'm using "just" to complete the sentences. I'm going to work on the verbs that have these regular objects in the sentences. 2. Conjugation Here's a good example of conjugation. The word "top" in the first conjugation changes to "pod", and the word "paste" changes to "amends". 3. Prepositions Prepositions do not exist in English. ...

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English Grammar      Whether you are dealing with everyday language or writing a perfect piece of work, you need to be familiar with the different parts of English grammar. If you know how to use it correctly and structure your sentences correctly, you can achieve or break top marks in a professional presentation. Every time you write or speak, you use the same grammar rules as the rest of the world, whether in the form of words, sentences or phrases. [Sources: 2]       If you know how to use each part of your speech, you can write more clearly, speak more eloquently, and feel more secure when communicating with others. Practicing grammar while listening, reading, writing, and speaking helps to recognize when grammar is right and wrong. [Sources: 1, 2]       For this activity, you need to write sentences with words in the right order and not forget punctuation. Once you have constructed a sentence with the right elements, including ...

The Most Common Spelling Mistakes and Causes of Them For bloggers who write in English, but whose native language is not English, spelling errors can turn into a nightmare. Making mistakes while writing a blog in English shows either they do not know English very well, or they are not carefully writing their articles, which may cause them to lost their popularity or jobs. So bloggers try to make less mistakes while writing and they use some ways to do so. The less mistakes you make, the better your article is. And with less mistakes, your aticle’s chance of getting published in a bigger site increases. To make less mistakes, you should know the mistakes you make. And spelling errors are caused by two main reasons: 1) not being careful and 2) lack of language knowledge. The mistakes caused by not being careful enough are easier to detect and correct. These are basically typos, a wrongly pushed letter on a keyboard makes the word wrong. For example if the word is written as “than...

The Most Common Spelling Errors Writing I had a lot of good requests for the first part of this series so here you go with part 2: Misprint, or typos, is a mistake made in writing that causes either from not concentrating enough or lack of knowledge in English. In this article, I will talk about the most common ones, and present some useful information to avoid making them again. Some of the mistakes are related to grammatical knowledge, so writers should take grammar seriously when writing. The others are vocabulary knowledge, so writers should take it even more seriously. When writing, keep in mind that your sentences must be grammatically correct. This is not to say that you ought to use all the tenses and so on, but you must use adjectives/adverbs correctly, otherwise your articles will not mean what you want, or will be misunderstood. So you should avoid making spelling mistakes. 1)       Advice/ Advise When using these words, writer should notice tha...

English Grammar Tips and Tricks Volume 2 You have probably come across with many warnings and advice when it comes to providing decent writing. These recommendations probably included checking your spelling and the structure of the sentences, using the critical words and concepts, ensuring the accuracy and consistency throughout the articles etc. These are all greatly discussed guiding methods that will certainly reform your work and improve it into a better one. What if I told you there is another issue that, if you do not pay enough attention to it, will make your article tangled and hard-to-read?             Punctuation, which is basically the name given for the marks and symbols used in writing, helps you separate sentences, words and clauses to help your sentences become clearer and more understandable. Accordingly, no matter how you put your thoughts into words and sentences in a perfect(!) way, incorrect punctuation will de...

English Grammar Tips and Tricks It is never an alternative to be flawless, perfect or totally accurate in life, this is something almost everyone agrees with, considering many parts of life. However, trying one’s best to perform in the least errors with a certain effort given to optimize the work always get appreciated even if includes several mistakes. Keeping that in mind, writing is also a field where you need to minimize any faults not to distract the audience and to make them have a good reading. So, do not be afraid of making any errors but be careful and attentive enough the fix them to make your work be of service. Most of the time, when you finish writing an article, you are not sure enough how to check your work in several manners such as grammar, vocabulary, spelling, wording etc. Is your work academic enough? Can it really reach the target audience by itself? Do possible errors make it totally unreadable and worthless? These kind of questions probably give you a harder ti...

Is the English language really hard? Did you know that the longest English word that can be spelled without repeating any letters is uncopyrightable? Let that sink in for a moment. How do you cope with such a language which is not even in the top 20 hardest languages in the world, yet it has countless different aspects surprising you occasionally, especially when writing? So, being a very mysterious language, English provides an enormous sphere where many errors and mistakes are quite natural if you are an ‘outsider’ to the language. What you need to do is to understand the very features of English – which the name English used for the language is actually older than the name of the country England – and adopt yourself to it.             Let’s start with an example: according to a study, slightly over 10% of the whole English language is just the letter E . This may sound calming as one would suggest that knowing al...

Grammarly review Writing in English may be harder and more challenging than expected as it involves various elements that need to be considered while doing it: grammar, spelling, word count, spacing, type font, context, wording etc. So, it takes a bit of hard work to come up with a prospering article if you take all these features of writing into account. However, there are numerous tools that could help you at least in some of these attributions and make it easier to finish your work with inner peace. This kind of tools help you put your ideas into words which are ‘rescued’ from any kind of misspelling or grammatical mistakes. Nowadays, it is super popular to benefit from grammar checking software when writing since they provide you with practical and accurate corrections that could take your article to the next level. You might think that you would be able to check your grammar and proofread your work yourself, yet it might not always be that easy to catch errors and find mistakes in...

No matter how you put out your work, if you do not express it in a good structure shaped with well-selected and used words, it is not going to be as efficient as you would want to. People that will evaluate your writing need to be totally focused and not distracted by mistakes simply made when preparing your work. English language — with a history of 15 centuries – includes more than 1 million words. 170.000 of them are in currently use where it is believed that one person uses 20.000 to 30.000 words. This very rich content of words paves the way for typos – making mistakes in written words accidentally or by unknowing the spelling of the word itself. Accordingly, it takes a bit further effort in providing comprehensive and effectual texts in English. That is why, you have to care for the spelling and writing of the words to make yourself clearly understood. Otherwise, your work may not reach the aimed stage by getting lost in the errors made by not being mindful enough of...

Most common mistakes part 2   English has become a global language that finds usage in every field of work and our daily lives too. Writing in English, whether it is for an essay, a report, or an email, requires you to follow grammatical rules.  The best way to write in perfect English is to be familiar with your spelling and grammar, and make sure that your writing reads smoothly with a comfortable flow.  What are the common mistakes and how to avoid? To help you write better in English, here are the most common mistakes people make that you should avoid – ·          It’s Vs Its “It’s” is the contraction or short form of it is or it has, while “its” without an apostrophe is a possessive pronoun.  ·          Their, They’re and There “Their” is a possessive pronoun, “there is the contraction of they are, while “there” refers to a place or can be used as a pronoun introduc...