most common mistakes in written english

Ngày tải lên: 19/12/2013, 10:39

Ngày tải lên: 23/07/2014, 19:21

... minute 492 tire 391 appear 442 strong 493 bring 392 road 443 special 494 yes 393 map 444 mind 495 distant 394 rain 445 behind 496 fill 395 rule 446 clear 497 east 396 govern 447 tail 498 paint 397 pull 448 produce 499 language 398 cold 449 fact 500 among 399 notice 450 street 400 voice 451 inch 401 unit 452 multiply 402 power 453 nothing 403 town 454 course 404 fine 455 stay 405 certain 456 wheel 406 fly 457 full 407 ... 636 tall 1000 Most Common Words in English - Numbers 501 - 725 - Vocabulary for ESL EFL TEFL TOEFL TESL English Learners t Rank Word Rank Word Rank Word 751 gentle 797 thick 842 print 752 woman 798 soldier 843 dead 753 captain 799 process 844 spot 754 practice 800 operate 845 desert 755 separate 801 guess 846 suit 756 difficult 802 necessary 847 current 757 ... yellow 884 shine 794 danger 840 gun 885 property 795 fruit 841 allow 886 column 1000 Most Common Words in English - Numbers 726 - 1000 - Vocabulary for ESL EFL TEFL TOEFL TESL English Learners 438 ocean 489 brought 439 warm 490 heat Rank...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2012, 08:20

... She couldn’t explain the reason why she was here. She couldn’t explain the reason because she was here. 120. Think of I’m thinking of moving to Australia. I’m thinking to move to Australia. ... She couldn’t explain the reason why she was here. She couldn’t explain the reason because she was here. 120. Think of I’m thinking of moving to Australia. I’m thinking to move to Australia. ... 105. Since & from I’ve been waiting here since eleven this morning. I’ve been waiting here for eleven this morning. Copyright by Andrew D. Miles, 2010 47. Except We’ll finance...

Ngày tải lên: 25/05/2013, 11:34

... you mind, look forward to. Examples: 1 think it's no use trying again. J can't help feeling angry about it. Use the gerund or the infinitive after certain verbs, such as begin, ... succeeded to win the prize. / Say: Paula succeeded in winning the prize. 83 Think of + -ing. Don't say: 1 often think to go to England. / Say: 1 often think of going to England. ... 42 Interested in, not for. Don't say: She's not interested for her work. / Say: She's not interested in her work. Note Also take an interest in She takes a great interest ...

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Ngày tải lên: 18/12/2013, 10:08

... of written English into a linear ordering according to the number of vowel strings contained in the word. Our study of the one-vowel string or cvc words is reported with some thoroughness in ... consonantal doubling rules in the inflection of English verbs C. The determination of word-breaking rules as used in end-of-the-line practices in type composition D. The determination of parts-of-speech ... admissible AFFIXING IN WRITTEN ENGLISH 87 [Mechanical Translation and Computational Linguistics, vol.8, nos.3 and 4, June and October 1965] The Nature of Affixing in Written English *† by...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 19:20

... it is worth noting that the string QUE is an admissible final-consonant string, occurring in words like MASQUE. Because only the admissible final-consonant strings not ending with E were ... hypothesis regarding strong affixes is that an inadmissible consonant string implies the existence of either a compounding unit or an affix whose point of attachment in the word lies in the inadmissible ... Another restriction occurring in the following defini- tions will be explained after they are stated. Definition P3. Let P = C 1 V 1 be a fixed-letter sequence in initial position. P is a...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 18:20

... language, and, in turn, eliminate or, at least, minimize their errors. However, the picture was not completed at that point. Errors insist to manifest themselves in the learners’ written and ... error analysis. English Language Teaching. 22(2). In Richards, J. (1984) (ed.). 25. _______ (1972). Social factors, interlanguage, and language learning. Language Learning. 22(2). In Richards, ... definite/indefinite articles, see Kharma, 1981). An interesting and indicative comment is provided by a student who has produced a deviant sentence where she has used the auxiliary ‘be’ in...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2014, 07:20

... Birner constraints n Information Structure n Occurrence in corpora p Summary 17 1 st non-canonical construction: Preposing – Constraint Illustration In principle, he is now capable of carrying out ... dust in the creases of her face. […] In the better light of the living-room he noticed with interest that there actually was dust in the creases of her face. p Suddenly there sprang into his mind, ... IS in English p Intonation p Non-canonical word order n Gregory Ward & Betty Birner studies: p 1998 – Information Status and Non-canonical Word Order in English p 2001 – Discourse and Information...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 19:20

... words in their essays. On the basis of these findings, it means that majority of students had problems in spelling English words in their writing. International Journal of Development and Sustainability ... to relate subject with verb in their writing. The findings in item fourteen support the findings in item thirteen. International Journal of Development and Sustainability Vol.1 No.2 (2012): ... process. The English Writing Skills Test was administered to all students who participated in the study in order to examine the students’ abilities in their English language writing skills. The...

Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 05:21

Ngày tải lên: 13/07/2014, 06:24

... within a given time limit. Scanning for specific information 1. Underlining or circling the required information in a given time limit. 2. Pre- questions focusing on specific information Reading ... paragraph. 3.1.2.6 Finding paragraph topics Finding paragraph topics is more difficult than the previous activities. Instead of finding the topic sentences and underlining them or looking at a list of headings ... process includes written and spoken in which information is used immediately or eventually. It also contains very crucial and often neglected human function: Thinking- “thinking is your ongoing...

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Ngày tải lên: 09/04/2013, 11:16

... hours since my sister last rung D. My sister hasn’t rung since hours. 11. Mary prefers to dance rather than sing. A. Mary prefers to dance than to sing. B. Mary prefers dancing than sing. C. ... prefers dancing than to sing. D. Mary prefers dancing to singing. 12. It took him two hours to do his homework. A. He spent two hours to do his homework. B. He spent two hours doing his homework. C. ... two years since Mary began studying Vietnamese. D. All are correct 14. I started going to school in 1997. A. I haven’t been a pupil when it was in 1997. B. I have been a student since 1997. C....

Ngày tải lên: 09/07/2013, 01:26

... FROM THE BEGINNING OF TIME Stephen Hawking writes about the beginning of time, but few other people do. People who write "from the beginning of time" or "since time began" ... denigrating others. The word was then broadened to cover an exaggerated belief in the superiority of one's own kind in other respects. Following this pattern, feminists in the 1970s invented ... trouble. CARING Most people are comfortable referring to "caring parents," but speaking of a "caring environment" is jargon, not acceptable in formal English. The environment...

Ngày tải lên: 17/08/2013, 09:19