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... people and in fact is commonin professional writing, but technically somebody specific needs to be mentioned in the sentence as doing the identifying Inserting a doer and shifting to the active ... brand names into generic ones, with the generic name falling into disuse Few people call gelatin dessert mix anything other than "Jell-O," which helps to explain why it's hard to find Nabisco's ... meaning a person intends, confusing these two words is not likely to get you into trouble CARING Most people are comfortable referring to "caring parents," but speaking of a "caring environment"...
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... 37 CANING OR CANNING? distinction in formal contexts However, informally, CAN is used to cover both meanings: You CAN go now (= are permitted) caning or canning? cane + ing = caning CANING is ... assassin (not assasin or asassin) assma Wrong spelling See ASTHMA assume or presume? To ASSUME something to be the case is to take it for granted without any proof To PRESUME something to be ... someone else automaton (singular) automata, automatons (plural) See FOREIGN PLURALS avenge or revenge? The words are very close in meaning but AVENGE is often used in the sense of exacting just retribution,...
... dull and drab dingo (singular) dingoes or dingos (plural) dining or dinning? dine + ing = dining (as in dining room) din + ing = dinning (noise dinning in ears) See ADDING ENDINGS (i) and (ii) ... working properly (a DEFECTIVE machine) DEFICIENT means lacking something vital (a diet DEFICIENT in vitamin C) defer deferred, deferring, deference See ADDING ENDINGS (iv) deffinite Wrong spelling ... grammatical terminology here You'll be able to decide whether you need to mark them off in your own work by matching them against these examples Can you see the difference in meaning that a pair...
... inferred, inferring, inference See ADDING ENDINGS (iv) inflammable See FLAMMABLE OR INFLAMMABLE? See also next entry inflammable or inflammatory? INFLAMMABLE = easily bursting into flames INFLAMMATORY ... unsophisticated 116 INTERESTING inhuman or inhumane? INHUMAN = lacking all human qualities INHUMANE = lacking compassion and kindness innocent innocence innocuous innuendo (singular) innuendoes or innuendos ... notable into into into into into fat-her leg-end the-rapist mans-laughter not-able and so on! Note: that the hyphen should be placed at the end of the first line (to indicate that the word is to be...
... a LOOSE tooth, (rhymes with moose) Don't LOSE your temper, (rhymes with snooze) loping or lopping? lope + ing = loping He was LOPING along with long strides, lop + ing = lopping LOPPING the trees ... MASTERLY - very skilful mathematics (not mathmatics) mating or matting? mate + ing = mating mat + ing = matting See ADDING ENDINGS (i) + (ii) matrix (singular) matrices or matrixes (plural) See FOREIGN ... mimicked, mimicking See SOFT c AND SOFT G miniature minuscule (not miniscule) minute (not minuit) miracle miscellaneous miscellany 138 MOPING OR MOPPING? mischief See EI/IE SPELLING RULE mischievous...
... pieriod Wrong spelling See PERIOD pigmy/pygmy (singular) pigmies/pygmies (plural) pining or pinning? pine +ing = pining pin + ing = pinning See ADDING ENDINGS (i), (ii) plateau (singular) plateaus ... mosquito no potato tomato torpedo dominoes echoes embargoes heroes mosquitoes noes potatoes tomatoes torpedoes About a dozen words can be either -s or -es and so you'll be safe with these Interestingly, ... three subsidiary points Clear paragraphing is not possible without clear thinking Think of what you want to say before you begin to write List the topics or points you want to make in a sensible order...
... Say: “I’m going to my best friend’s wedding on Sunday.” Wedding = The ceremony I’m going to my cousin’s wedding on October We want to have a band at our wedding reception The wedding will be ... you explain the problem to me?” Explain is like “say/said” – we explain something to someone We can also say “explain that” – “The agent explained that our flight had been delayed 30 minutes because ... is a better way to say it I hope you find this book useful, but I want to give you one piece of advice: Don’t let the fear of making mistakes stop you from speaking English Making mistakes is...
... trouble, you will find some words listed with a useful cross-reference dining or dinning? dine + ing = dining (as in dining room) din + ing = dinning (noise dinning in ears) See ADDING ENDINGS (i) and ... Spring Hill House, Spring Hill Road, Oxford OX5 1RX, United Kingdom info@howtobooks.co.uk www.howtobooks.co.uk Quick Solutions toCommonErrorsinEnglish Angela Burt An A-Zguide to spelling ... hoping carer sincerity separation achieved Do, however, keep the -e in words like singeing (different from singing) and dyeing (different ADDING ENDINGS from dying) and whenever you need to keep...
... agreement • Errorsin verb tense • Errorsin verb form Errorsin noun endings • Errorsin pluralization • Errorsin adding morphemes Errorsin articles Errorsin using words 31 • Errorsin prepositions ... prevailingly is the division of errors into interlingual errors and intralingual errors Because, two major factors that contributed to the presence of 22 errorsin students’ written work are interlingual ... articles, errorsin verb forms, errorsin preposition, errorsin word choice, errorsin verb tense, errorsin word orders, errorsin subject-verb agreement, errorsin spelling and errorsin form respectively...
... prevailingly is the division of errors into interlingual errors and intralingual errors Because, two major factors that contributed to the presence of errorsin students’ written work are interlingual ... language errors 2.4.2 Interlingual interference Interlingual interference is the interference of the learner’s first language or mother tongue onto the process of learning a second language Mother tongue ... activity to identify, classify and interpreted or describe the errors made by someone in speaking or in writing and it is carried out to obtain information on common difficulties faced by someone in...