BASIC MISTAKES IN COMPOSITIONS: MISTAKE BANK.

BASIC MISTAKES IN COMPOSITIONS: MISTAKE BANK.

-FORMAT: Interview, description, narration, etc. ACCORDING TO THE TASK.

-NEVER invent words like “ensaladation”. If you don’t know a word, simply do not use it.

-Abbreviations in English are different from the Spanish ones. AIDS = SIDA

-Order of the sentence SVO: DO NOT THINK IN SPANISH.

She takes in the morning for breakfast a white coffee and some toasts.

Note: Never brake the joint VO with anything in the middle.

-PUNCTUATION: Help the reader breathe and understand. Do not make very long sentences.

-PARAGRAPHS. Cohesive (grammar) and coherent (ideas) paragraphs.

-EDIT your text by reading it in English and correct possible mistakes. Give me a reason to smile and to let the correction pen down on the desk.

-THIRD PERSON “s” please.

-PREPOSITIONS. Try to learn the prepositions in English. Learn the verb and the preposition together. For example: To depend on/ consist of/ listen to/ spend money on

-POSITION OF ADVERBS: She eats normally……. . She normally is……..

-ARTICLES: Never say: the lunch. the breakfast.

-ADJECTIVES: Never use plural forms: She likes differents kinds of food.

-RELATIVES AND SUBJECTS: Always use a subject in a sentence, but do not repeat it when you use a relative adjective.

I like Spanish ham because it is really tasty.

I like Spanish ham, which is very tasty.

-THE NOUN PEOPLE, contrary to your likes and expectations, is PLURAL.

PEOPLE ARE CHANGING THEIR HABITS.

-SOME MODAL VERBS LIKE CAN, MUST, SHOULD, MAY, are never followed by to infinitive.

I must eat less chocolate

She should cut down on fat.

-STRUCTURES WHICH LOOK LIKE QUESTIONS. (INDIRECT QUESTIONS).

I don’t know how tall is he.

I don’t know how tall he is.

-USED TO(expresses a habit in the past) AND USUALLY(in the present).

Note: I am used to…( I am accustomed to) is followed by an –ing form.

-ACTUALLY (means “a propósito”)/ NOWADAYS (means “actualmente”)

-ANOTHER is singular and means “one more” or “one different”

Another days she eats ……….

Other days she eats……..

-EXPRESSING PURPOSE. (FINALIDAD): to + infinitive.

I come to school for to learn English.

I come to school (in order) TO learn English

NEGATIVES in order not to

so as not to

so that + full sentence

-EXPRESSING UTILITY: for + ing form.

These pair of scissors a for cutting …………..

-THE EXPRESSION “On the other hand” indicates contrast with something that has been previously said. It is common to be used after “On the one hand”.

- USE ed/ing adjectives properly: I am bored/ I am boring.

-To Travel is a verb, never use it as a noun.

- The negative form of must in the past is didn’t have to….., never say hadn’t.

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