Top 50 Grammar Mistakes How to Avoid Them

Description

This book focuses on the most commonly made grammar mistakes by non-native English speakers. This means that you can set yourself a reasonable target. So rather than trying to learn all English grammar, just concentrate on those issues that tend to be used the most frequently and/or tend to create the most misunderstandings. Each chapter contains: Examples of typical mistakes. Examples of correct usage. Rules / explanations. A short exercise where you can immediately practise what you have learned. Additional exercises. Keys to all exercises. The book also contains a Teachers Introduction. Easy English! is a series of books to help you learn and revise your English with minimal effort. You can improve your English by reading texts in English that you might well normally read in your own language e.g. jokes, personality tests, lateral thinking games, wordsearches. doing short exercises to improve specific areas grammar and vocabulary, i.e. the areas that tend to lead to the most mistakes - the aim is just to focus on what you really need rather than overwhelming yourself with a mass of rules, many of which may have no practical daily value Part 1 Top 50 Grammar Mistakes 1 Advise, Recommend, Suggest 2 Allow, Enable, Permit, Let 3 Already, Just, Still, Yet 4 Articles: A, An 5 Articles: A / An vs One vs It vs Genitive 6 Articles: The vs Zero Article (Ø) 7 Be Able, Manage vs Can / Could 8 Be Born, Die 9 Be Going To 10 Be vs Have 11 Be vs Have as Auxiliary Verbs 12 Been vs Gone 13 Can vs May 14 Cannot vs May Not 15 Collective Nouns 16 Comparisons 17 Conditionals: Zero and First ( If vs When ) 18 Conditionals:​ Second and Third 19 Continuous Forms 20 Countable and Uncountable Nouns 21 Each, Every, All, None 22 Few, Little, A Few, A Little 23 (This Is The) First Time, Second Time 24 Genitive:​ The Possessive Form of Nouns 25 Have, Have Got 26 Have Something Done 27 How Long, How Much Time, How Many Times 28 -ing Form vs the Infinitive 29 Languages and Nationalities 30 Like, Love, Prefer 31 Make vs Let 32 Much, Many, A Lot of, Lots of 33 Must vs Have To 34 Must Not Vs Do Not Have To 35 Numbers, Dates and Measurements 36 Passive vs Active 37 People vs Person; Men, Human 38 Present Perfect vs Past Simple 39 Present Perfect With For and Since 40 Pronouns 41 So, Too, Very, That + Adjective 42 So, Such, So Many, So Much 43 Some, Any and Related Issues 44 Stop, Remember 45 Used To and Present Tense 46 Very Much, A Lot : Use at the End of a Phrase 47 Want, Would, Would Like, Would Prefer 48 Which? What? How? 49 Who, Which and What in Questions 50 Will vs Present Simple Part 2 Revision Tests 51 Revision Tests Revision Tests 1 Revision Tests 2 Appendix Index