Eight Common Grammatical Mistakes (part 1)
Eight Common Grammatical Mistakes in English ( part 1)
In this lesson we’ll have a chance to review 8 common English errors, so let’s see how you do.
Number one:
Today morning I woke up late.
It should be.
This morning I woke up late.
Number two:
what’s the different?
This sentence is wrong because different is an adjective. What we want to use here is the noun. And the noun is difference. The correct sentence is:
What’s the difference?
Number three:
I met John two years before.
We can’t say “I met John two years before”. We say:
I met John two years ago.
If we use the word before then we have to say before something. For example, we can say “I met John before I got married.” But we can’t use before by itself. So the proper word here is ago.
Number four:
This is a six months course.
That sounds almost OK, but it’s not OK. So the mistake here is. With the plural of the word months. When we use this expression, the entire expression becomes an adjective for the noun course. So, we should say :
This is a six month course.
Number five:
Thank you. I really enjoyed.
The problem is here is enjoy is a reflexive verb, so you would need to say:
I really enjoyed myself.
number six
did you loose your cell phone?
The error is with the word loose. It is an adjective that means not tight. So, here we have a spelling mistake, and the correct sentence should be:
Did you lose your cell phone?
Loose is an adjective, which means not tight and lose is the opposite of find.
Number seven:
This is an academic course.
This is an academic course.
What was wrong was the pronunciation of academic. The stress should be on the middle of the word academic.
Number eight:
I have a free time.
We don’t need to say a free time, we need to say:
I have free time.
The word time is an uncountable noun.
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