Common Errors

16.Can you give me some advise on how to write my assignment?.

Can you give me some advice on how to write my assignment?.

17.I can’t stand my sisters’ boyfriend

I can’t stand my sister’s boyfriend.

18.It’s difficult to know what is the solution to the problem.

It’s difficult to know what the solution to the problem is.

Common Errors

Countable v uncountable nouns

Exercise vs. exercises – What’s the difference?

Common Errors

Countable v uncountable nouns

Exercise vs. exercises

•It is important to do exercise to avoid the problem of obesity.

•There are a number of yoga breathing exercises that can help to relieve stress.

Common Errors

Countable v uncountable nouns

Uncountable nouns which are frequently misused as plurals include:

News, furniture, equipment, staff, vocabulary, advice, weather, permission

Correct:Staff not staffs

Vocabulary not vocabulariesNews is not news are

Sentence structure

• Ann laughed. Sub verb

Sentence structure

•One of the leading causes of global warming.

•Cars produce CO2, one of the leading causes of global warming.

•One of the leading causes of global warming is carbon dioxide.

Common Errors – apostrophe ‘s’

What’s wrong with these sentences?

•One of the main reasons that it’s roof flew off in the storm was that it was tin.

•His salary is higher than a teacher.

Correction

Subject verb agreement

•Be wary of words that look singular but are really plurals (usually Latin words)

The criteria for this assignment are especially difficult

(criterion is the singular form)

•As well as agrees with the first noun

The teacher, as well as his students, was affected by the gas.

Correction

Subject verb agreement

Which is correct?

–None of us like grammar.

–None of us likes grammar.

•In formal language none is followed by a singular verb. In everyday speech, it is often followed by a plural verb.

•Either & neither follow the same rules e.g. Neither of my sisters is/are very tidy