errors to avoid test yourself – find the error! © ron mastine

Errors to avoid

Test yourself – Find the error!

© Ron Mastine

I like to pass time with my friends on

the weekends

I like to spend time with my

friends on the weekends

• Word Choice

Can you tell me the good way to

complete this form?

Can you tell me the right way to

complete this form?

• Word Choice

I want to go get my driver’s permit

when I have 16 years

I want to go get my driver’s permit

when I am/will be 16 years old

• Word Choice & expression

I went for see the movie at the theater

last weekend.

I went to see the movie at the theater

last weekend.

• Prepositions

My birthday is in january and Tom’s

is in april.

My birthday is in January and Tom’s

is in April.

• Capital letters

I am go last year to Toronto on a school trip.

I went to Toronto on a school trip last

year.

• Word Choice & Position

In my family, we are all bigs persons.

In my family, we are all big people.

• Word Choice & adjectives don’t agree

A boys like to play rough sports like hockey and

football.

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

I’m agree with people who think

we should save the environment.

I agree with people who think

we should save the environment.

• Expression ( translated)

He goes to the school who is on

Park street.

He goes to the school that is on

Park street.

• Who = people that =objects

I like my parents, he is always giving

me good advice.

I like my parents, they are always giving me good

advice.

• Agreement –subject & verb

My friends helped themselfs to a drink and cookies

in the kitchen.

My friends helped themselves to a drink

and cookies in the kitchen.

• Plural rules

I went their with them when there

father said their late for supper.

I went there with them when their

father said “they’re late for supper”.

• Similar words -homonyms

This book contains interesting

informations and good advices.

This book contains interesting

information and good advice.

• Never plural nouns

I have worked there since 2

months.

I have worked there for 2 months.

• For -period since -a point

He very like water that is really cold.

He really likes water that is

really/very cold.

• Really vs very

I go always to the dances at school.

I always go to the dances at school.

• Adverbs before verbs

I go in school to Windsor on 250 St-

Georges Street.

I go to school in Windsor at 250 St-

Georges Street.

• Prepositions to –move, etc

I was surprised to see a elephant with an mouse on it’s trunk because the elephants are

usually afraid of the mice.

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

Rather then stop at the store on the

way home, she than went back to get

her groceries.

Rather than stop at the store on the

way home, she then went back to get

her groceries.• Then vs than

It’s help to put disinfectant on a

cut.

It helps to put disinfectant on a

cut.

• S is displaced

He went without her ‘cose she really likes to be with him.

He went without her because she really likes to be

with him.

• With –without …because

Me, I like to go to parties.

Me, I like to go to parties.

• Writing vs speaking

John father was sitting with the

mother of Mary at the meeting.

John’s father was sitting with the

Mary’s mother at the meeting.

• Possessive

I like athletes who don’t smell like

ones.

I like athletes who don’t smell like

one.

• Plural or not

That joke was fun but singing those songs was really

funny.

That joke was funny but singing those songs was

really fun.

• Word Choice

He likes many kinds of books, by exemple, action,

suspense and humourous ones.

He likes many kinds of books, for

example, action, suspense and

humourous ones.• Word Choice

The to boys were two big to fit in the transport-train too

the festival.

The two boys were too big to fit in the transport-train

to the festival.

• Word Choice

I am interesting in a collection of

interested artifacts from Egypt.

I am interested in a collection of

interesting artifacts from Egypt.

• Word Choice

When you run your car do you ever drive into those orange

pylons?

When you drive your car do you

ever run into those orange pylons?

• Word Choice

It begins at 5 hours, only 3

o’clock from now.

It begins at 5 o’clock, only 3

hours from now.

• Word Choice

Tim is a boy handsome with

muscles big.

Tim is a handsome boy with

big muscles.

• Word Choice

I saw that show on TV one times but

I can’t remember what time it was on.

I saw that show on TV one time/once but

I can’t remember what time it was on.

• Word Choice - plural

Great job!Put it to practice!

• © Ron Mastine