errors to avoid test yourself – find the error! © ron mastine
TRANSCRIPT
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Errors to avoid
Test yourself – Find the error!
© Ron Mastine
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I like to pass time with my friends on
the weekends
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I like to spend time with my
friends on the weekends
• Word Choice
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Can you tell me the good way to
complete this form?
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Can you tell me the right way to
complete this form?
• Word Choice
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I want to go get my driver’s permit
when I have 16 years
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I want to go get my driver’s permit
when I am/will be 16 years old
• Word Choice & expression
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I went for see the movie at the theater
last weekend.
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I went to see the movie at the theater
last weekend.
• Prepositions
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My birthday is in january and Tom’s
is in april.
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My birthday is in January and Tom’s
is in April.
• Capital letters
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I am go last year to Toronto on a school trip.
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I went to Toronto on a school trip last
year.
• Word Choice & Position
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In my family, we are all bigs persons.
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In my family, we are all big people.
• Word Choice & adjectives don’t agree
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A boys like to play rough sports like hockey and
football.
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Boys like to play rough sports like
hockey and football. A boy likes to play
rough sports like hockey and football.
• Singular vs Plural – 3rd person
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I’m agree with people who think
we should save the environment.
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I agree with people who think
we should save the environment.
• Expression ( translated)
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He goes to the school who is on
Park street.
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He goes to the school that is on
Park street.
• Who = people that =objects
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I like my parents, he is always giving
me good advice.
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I like my parents, they are always giving me good
advice.
• Agreement –subject & verb
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My friends helped themselfs to a drink and cookies
in the kitchen.
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My friends helped themselves to a drink
and cookies in the kitchen.
• Plural rules
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I went their with them when there
father said their late for supper.
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I went there with them when their
father said “they’re late for supper”.
• Similar words -homonyms
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This book contains interesting
informations and good advices.
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This book contains interesting
information and good advice.
• Never plural nouns
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I have worked there since 2
months.
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I have worked there for 2 months.
• For -period since -a point
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He very like water that is really cold.
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He really likes water that is
really/very cold.
• Really vs very
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I go always to the dances at school.
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I always go to the dances at school.
• Adverbs before verbs
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I go in school to Windsor on 250 St-
Georges Street.
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I go to school in Windsor at 250 St-
Georges Street.
• Prepositions to –move, etc
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I was surprised to see a elephant with an mouse on it’s trunk because the elephants are
usually afraid of the mice.
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I was surprised to see an elephant with
a mouse on it’s trunk because thethe
elephants are usually afraid of thethe
mice. • A, AN, THE
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Rather then stop at the store on the
way home, she than went back to get
her groceries.
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Rather than stop at the store on the
way home, she then went back to get
her groceries.• Then vs than
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It’s help to put disinfectant on a
cut.
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It helps to put disinfectant on a
cut.
• S is displaced
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He went without her ‘cose she really likes to be with him.
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He went without her because she really likes to be
with him.
• With –without …because
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Me, I like to go to parties.
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Me, I like to go to parties.
• Writing vs speaking
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John father was sitting with the
mother of Mary at the meeting.
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John’s father was sitting with the
Mary’s mother at the meeting.
• Possessive
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I like athletes who don’t smell like
ones.
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I like athletes who don’t smell like
one.
• Plural or not
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That joke was fun but singing those songs was really
funny.
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That joke was funny but singing those songs was
really fun.
• Word Choice
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He likes many kinds of books, by exemple, action,
suspense and humourous ones.
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He likes many kinds of books, for
example, action, suspense and
humourous ones.• Word Choice
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The to boys were two big to fit in the transport-train too
the festival.
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The two boys were too big to fit in the transport-train
to the festival.
• Word Choice
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I am interesting in a collection of
interested artifacts from Egypt.
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I am interested in a collection of
interesting artifacts from Egypt.
• Word Choice
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When you run your car do you ever drive into those orange
pylons?
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When you drive your car do you
ever run into those orange pylons?
• Word Choice
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It begins at 5 hours, only 3
o’clock from now.
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It begins at 5 o’clock, only 3
hours from now.
• Word Choice
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Tim is a boy handsome with
muscles big.
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Tim is a handsome boy with
big muscles.
• Word Choice
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I saw that show on TV one times but
I can’t remember what time it was on.
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I saw that show on TV one time/once but
I can’t remember what time it was on.
• Word Choice - plural
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Great job!Put it to practice!
• © Ron Mastine