Common

Mistakes
Missing subject

“it is important to study every day.

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"The" or no "the"?

Specific or particular

For example, if I say, "Let's read the book,"

If I say, "Let's read a book,"

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Prepositions (on-in-at)

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 Double Negatives in english

I didn’t eat anything.(nothing)

We say - “I don’t know nothing.”, this means that we

know something, but the correct one is

Correct - “I don’t know anything.”

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Subject Omission

Is always a good idea

instead of  It is always a good idea.

Is my brother. 
instead of  He is my brother.

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Gender Confusion

Lisa has his bus pass.  instead of  Lisa

has her bus pass.

Subject pronouns and the possessive

adjective need to agree in gender or
you are communicating something
other than what you mean to say.

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Make/do
We use 'make' when we create or construct something.

For example:She made/makes a cake.

I've made us some coffee.

Did you really make those trousers?

We use 'do' for general activities. In this case, 'do' is often used with 'something', 'nothing',
'anything' or 'everything’:

What did you do at the weekend?

I didn't do anything yesterday.

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Use of the wrong tense.

Many of us have the tendency to use the wrong tense. For example:

We say - “I didn’t cried when I saw the movie.” Here the word didn’t is

never followed by a past tense verb. So, the correct one is

Correct - “I didn’t cry when I saw the movie.”

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To or for ?
TO
Direction/Destination
Do you usually take the bus to work?

For
Duration / period of time
How long have you been studying medicine for?

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