Most Common Mistakes in English, Marian J., 2014

Most Common Mistakes in English, Marian J., 2014.

   Before we move on to the mistakes, there is one important thing you should realize: Each language is different, and what may be readily expressible in your mother tongue may be hard to express in English and vice versa. When you read about the mistakes, do not try to understand the English construction through translation into your mother tongue. If you make a mistake subconsciously, the corresponding construction in your mother tongue probably doesn’t agree with the English one, and trying to understand it using translation may only confuse you further.




Collective nouns.
The word “majority” is one of a few nouns in English that can be used either with a singular or a plural verb form (i.e. both “majority is” and “majority are” are grammatically correct but carry a different meaning). These nouns are called collective nouns because they describe a collective (i.e. a group) of people or things. Their usage in English differs from most other languages; we use a singular verb if we mean the whole group as a single entity, and a plural verb if we mean all of the individuals who belong to the group. For example:
A majority of people don’t want a war. (correct)
A majority of people doesn’t want a war. (wrong).

Here we are obliged to use “don’t” because we mean the people, not the “majority” itself. On the other hand, we would say.
A majority of people is, by definition, apart of the population containing at least 50% of it. (correct).
A majority of people are, by definition, a part of the population containing at least 50% of it. (wrong).

Contents.
Foreword.
Introduction.
Mistakes with articles, nouns, and pronouns.
Nouns with identical singular and plural forms.
Irregular plural patterns.
Singular nouns ending in ‘s’.
Nouns that only exist in the plural.
Are things he, she, or it?.
United States is/are.
Several thousand(s) of.
Dot, period, full stop, point.
A couple (of).
In/on (the) I/internet.
Sub(s)tract.
You and I/me.
All/any thing/every thing but.
Information(s) is/are.
Names of numbers above 1000.
Collective nouns.
A couple of. are/is.
People are/is.
A lot of. are/is.
Many, much, a lot of, and lots of.
Is a doctor he or she?.
Each other’s or each others’.
Matter/question of time.
In (the) case of.
Ton or tonne.
On (the) one hand.
Advice(s) is/are.
Money is/are.
The person who/that.
Economics or economy.
10 dollars is/are.
Mistakes with verbs and tenses.
Word order in subordinate clauses.
Present perfect with specific time.
Aren't I, amn’t I.
Use to do.
Haven’t/Don’t have.
Lend or borrow.
Boring or bored.
Make someone (to) do something.
Learn someone to do something.
‘Will’ in time clauses.
He wants that I do.
Present subjunctive.
Sequence of tenses in indirect speech.
The conditional.
Wish + would.
Could/couldn’t care less.
Continue doing/to do.
Learnt or learned.
Effect or affect.
I cut, you cut, he cut.
Would of.
I already/never/just have done.
How/what does it look like.
How/what is it called.
Questions about the subject.
Look forward to hear(ing) from you.
Stay or stand.
So don’t I/Neither do I.
Put/take off one’s hat.
Stay/be left.
Mistakes with adjectives, adverbs, and determiners.
Fast, fastly, but not furiously.
(A) little, (a) few.
Second or other.
All that, all what, all which.
Both and either.
Freeer or freer.
Classic or classical.
“Sympathic”.
Many/some/few (of).
So/as fast as.
Like more/better/most/best.
Look/smell/feel good/well.
A lot of/much/long time ago.
More better.
Yet or already.
Mistakes with prepositions.
Cet off, get out of, take off, exit.
Arrive at/in/to.
To be good at/in.
Different from/than/to.
On/in the photo.
Suited for/to.
Married to/with.
Time prepositions.
Call (to) someone.
I’ve been here for/since/during time.
Mistakes with commas.
Comma before a dependent clause.
Comma before conjunctions between independent clauses.
Comma between independent clauses.
Comma after introductory phrase.
Comma and ‘if.
Comma before ‘because’.
Serial (Oxford) comma.
Comma around ‘etc.’.
Online tools.
Final remarks.
Alphabetical Index.



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