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Letters Stablished Established
SPELLING Double consonant Fader Begining Father Beginning
Plurals Lifes Lives
Nationalities english English
WORD
CAPITALIZATION Days of the week thursday Thursday
Months january January
FORMATION Inventions Identificate Identify
USE False friends Faculty of Law School of Law
ARTICLES The I like the cars very much I like cars very much
A/ an An university A university
DEMONSTRATIVES
This/ these This things These things
Collocation Attempts of Attempts at
NOUN
Incorrect “´s” The table´s leg The leg of the table
No plurals They are very goods They are very good
ADJECTIVES Order Brown long jacket Long brown jacket
Position A person very funny A very funny person
Person She say She says
Number People is People are
Tenses:
a) Past participle I have talk I have talked
b) Past simple She didn´t invented it She didn´t invent it
Infinitive & Avoid recognize Avoid recognizing
SENTENCE
gerund
Obliged me doing Obliged me to do
VERBS
Collocations They arrived to Madrid They arrived in Madrid

Listen the radio Listen to the radio

Auxiliaries:
a) Be What you doing? What are you doing?
b) Do What time you get up? What time do you get up?
c) Have He has 20 years old He is 20 years old
d) Modals I can to do that I can do that
Incorrect
PREPOSITION preposition In internet On the Internet
Unnecessary “to” I saw to Mary I saw Mary
Incorrect How she said in her
CONJUNCTION
conjunction book, As she said in her book,
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Word Order We chicken ate We ate chicken
It is very famous the The Prado museum is very
Incorrect “it”
Prado Museum famous
Verb+direct She plays very well
object tennis She plays tennis very well
What explanation can What explanation can this
have this problem? problem have?

Inversion

Not only this is horrible, Not only is this horrible,

SENTENCE ORDER
but but
She asked where was She asked where my
Non-inversion
my uncle uncle was
The house, that has 4 The house, which has 4
bedrooms bedrooms

Relative pronouns
She went to the USA,
what was good for her
English
He is a person that you
Double relatives
can talk to him
She went to the USA,
which was good for her
English
He is a person that you
can talk to

LEVEL ELEMENT OPTIMUM CHARACTERISTICS

LETTERS Legible
LINES Spaced
Sequencing:
Introduction
PARAGRAPHS
Development
Conclusion
TEXT
PUNCTUATION Correct use of all signs
Clear
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Ordered
Complete
COHESION No isolated sentence
COHERENCE Relevant & meaningful information

CRASH BIBLIOGRAPHY
*Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English (2012, revised edition with CD-ROM)
www.freecollocation.com
*Sánchez Benedito, Francisco
(2007, 9th ed): Gramática inglesa. Madrid: Pearson Longman.
*Swan, Michael (2016, 4th ed.) Practical English Usage. Oxford: O.U.P.