100 easy mistakes to make in Cooper English writing
Written expression is an examination of our comprehensive ability to use English, and it is also the test method that best reflects the level of English. Today, Mr. Huahui Kaobo shared with you the common mistakes in English composition, and come to see if there are any pits below that you have stepped on. It is recommended that you copy the mistakes you have made in your notebook and often look through them, and do not fall twice in a pit.
One. noun
In writing, many test takers often do not grasp the number of nouns, possessives, and the use of some collective nouns.
1. He gave me a very good advice yesterday.
The a in the sentence is to be removed because advice is an uncountable noun. Some Chinese words with the concept of countless are uncountable in English, and when indicating quantity, add a piece of, similar words are: news, bread, work, paper, chalk, furniture, information and so on.
2. That girl loves reading book.
The singular of a countable noun cannot be placed alone in a sentence, or preceded by an article, or made plural. It's better to change it to books here.
3. He went into a book’s shop and bought a dictionary.
Generally, the nouns that denote living things are used as 's,' such as my mother's car, and here it is appropriate to use nouns to modify the nouns, changed to a book shop.
4. My family is watching TV.
Some set nouns are regarded as a whole, and predicate verbs are singular, such as My family is a happy one; If the individual behavior of each individual in the set is emphasized, the predicate verb is pluralized. Watching TV here is an individual act, and is should be changed to are. Similar words are: team, class, audience, etc.
5. I bought some potatos and tomatos at the supermarket.
There are four words in the middle school that end with "o" to add es, which are toto, potato, Negro, hero; The rest are added to s to become complex.
6. This has nothing to do with their believes.
(It has nothing to do with their beliefs.) ）
Words ending in f, fe generally go to f, fe plus ves, such as knife-knives, thief-thieves; While the roots and belief directly add s to become complex. So beierves should be changed to belevifs.
Two. article
7. The boss wants to hire an useful person.
Whether a or an is used depends on the first phonetic transcription of the following word, such as an for vowels and a for consonants. The first sound of useful is a consonant so the a should be changed to a. Similarly, we say a European country.
8．Plane is a machine that can fly.
Plane is a singular number of countable nouns and cannot be used alone, it should be preceded by an article or made plural, and there is a machine after this sentence, so it can only be preceded by a a to become A plane.
9．He played a piano at the party yesterday.
Change a to the thes, because the instrument is preceded by a definite article.
10．The machine was invented in 1920s.
Add the the after in, because the plural number of the denotes the age is added by in plus the therefore added by tens, as in the 80s in the eighties.
11．Xiao Hong went to school by the bus every day.
Remove the the, because it indicates the mode of transportation with by directly plus transportation.
Three. pronoun
When using pronouns, pay attention to the use of their single, plural, subject, object, and adjective subject pronouns and noun subject pronouns.
12．He is one of those speakers who make his ideas perfectly clear.
The precursor to the determinant clause is those speakers, which are plurals, so the indicative pronouns in the clause should be plural and his should be changed to their.
13．Whom do you think has left the lights on？
Do you think / believe / guess / imagine / suppose, etc. after the special question word of the question sentence does not participate in the sentence component, and after removing them, the question word is used as the subject of the sentence and the object of the object as the object. In this sentence, the subject is missing after removing do you think, and Whom should be changed to Who.
14．The boss pretended not to see John and I.
The object that John and I do in the sentence should be changed to I to me.
15．These books are mine; those in the bag are her.
Her is an adjective subject pronoun, followed by the noun books, or her to hers.
Four. numeral
16．There are fourteen hundreds students in our school.
Words such as Hundred / thousand / million / score / dozen are not added after the specific number, and when there is no specific number in front of it, the s and of are added after it, indicating the concept of about hundreds of thousands. Such as two hundred
students, hundreds of students. In example sentences, hundreds should be replaced by hundred.
17．Their school is twice as larger as our school.
Table multiples of the relationship between as --- ass can only be used in the original level of an adjective or adverb. Hence the change of lager to ledger.
18．Today’s homework is a five-hundred-words composition.
Nouns in compound adjectives consisting of hyphens concatenated with hyphens can only be used in the singular, so change the five-hundred-words to five-hundred-word.
19．Two third of the students in our school are from America.
In english expression, the numerator of the fraction uses a cardinal word, the denominator uses an ordinal word, and the numerator is greater than a time after the denominator is added, so the third is changed to thirds.
Five. Adjectives and adverbs
Adjectives and adverbs are easily misused, and the comparative and superlative levels of adjectives and adverbs are also important to note.
20．The patient appeared nervously when he talked to the doctor.
appear is a verb here, followed by an adjective as a predicate. So change nervously to nervous.
21．The artist worked hardly to finish his drawings on time.
This sentence requires an adverb to modify, hardly is an adverb, but means "almost not", hard can also be an adverb, table effort, hence hardly changed to hard.
22．This shirt is more cheaper than that one.
More only constitutes a comparison level, not a cosmetic comparison level. So remove more.
23．He is the most successful of the two businessmen.
When comparing the two, the fixed article is used before the comparison level, and the most is used only if three or more, so the most is changed to more.
24．He works less harder than he used to.
The table is not as good as... When using less plus the original level of adjectives and adverbs, therefore harder was changed to hard.
25．The book is fairly more interesting than that one.
fairly can only modify the original level of adjectives and adverbs, and can modify the adverbs or phrases of the comparative level are: much, even, still, far, a lot, a little, a bit, any, no, by far, rather, etc., so change fairly to rather.
26．This is as an interesting a story as the one in the magazine.
as ... The word order in the middle of as is as plus the adjective plus a(n) plus the noun plus as, so it should be changed to as interesting a story as the one.
27．The weather here is nicer than Xizang.
The same thing can be compared, weather and Xizang are not comparable, so it should be changed to The weather here is nicer than that of Xizang.
29．I would rather take a train than went by bus.
The phrase is would rather do ... than do ..., so change went to go.
30．Is there interesting anything at the meeting?
Adjectives for modifying anything, something, every-thing, and nothing are to be placed after them.
31．I never have seen such a person before.
Adverbs such asever should be placed in sentences after the be verb, the auxiliary verb, and before the actual verb. Because it should be changed to I have never seen such a person before.
32．The book is worth to be read.
Be worth doing means being worth doing. Therefore change to The book is worth reading.
33．It is sure that he will succeed.
The subject of sure can only be people, while the subject of certain can be people and things. So change the sure to certain.
34. He is regarded as one of the best alive writers at present.
Alive is a predicate adjective and occasionally a postposition. So change active to living, or put alive after the writers.
35. I don’t know that he has finished the work yet.
Yet is used for negative and interrogative sentences, and already is used for affirmative sentences. Change the set to already.
36．He said nearly nothing at the meeting.
Nearly is not used in the same sentence as the negative word, while almost can. Hence the change of nearly to almost.
Six. preposition
37．He usually goes to school by his father’s car.
By plus noun indicates a mode of transportation, nothing is added in the middle, such as by car, by bus, by plane, etc.; if there are other word modifications before the noun, it should be a preposition other than byby, here the by is changed to in.
38．Please wait me at the school gate.
Wait is an intransitive verb that requires the addition of the preposition for before it can be objected to a noun or pronoun.
39．He has been married with Betty for more than twenty years.
Marry is not used with withwith, and should be changed to to.
40．I finished the work on time under the help of him.
"In ... With the help of "with with the use of under."
Seven. Modal verbs
41．He can be at home now because the light in his room is still on.
Must is used for tables that are particularly sure of positive judgments, can for tables that are particularly sure of negative judgments, and can only be used in negative sentences when judging with a can table. So change can to must.
42．He need come here before the meeting begins.
Need is used in negative, doubt, and conditional sentences when used as modal verbs, and cannot be used in affirmative sentences, while it can be used as a real verb. So it should be changed to: He needs to come here before the meeting begins.
43．He used to get up very early in the morning, and now he is still doing so.
used to indicate that I used to do something and can't do it now, so the second half of the sentence should be changed to: but now he is not doing so.
44．I needn’t come yesterday because all the work had been finished.
Since modal verbs themselves do not embody tenses, add havee done after modal verbs when talking about past events, and therefore haveh after needn't.
45．You hadn’t better stay up too late because you have to get up early tomorrow.
Had better negation add not after better.
Eight. The tense of the verb
There are sixteen common tenses in English, which are generally determined according to the context and temporal adjectives.
46．I will tell her about that when she will come tomorrow.
The main sentence is the future tense, and its time, conditions, manner, and concessions are used in the general present tense in the clause. So change will come to comedy.
47．The meeting is about to begin in ten minutes.
be about to is generally not used in conjunction with specific temporal adjectives. So remove in ten minutes.
48．The boy opened his eyes for a moment, looking at the captain and then died.
Here look is not an adjunct, but three juxtaposed predicate verbs, so looking is changed to looked.
49．I have bought this bike for ten years and I am still using it now.
When there is a period of for addition in a sentence as an adjective, the predicate verb must be a continuation verb, and the thought is changed here to kept.
50．Ihaven’t learnt any English before I came here.
I'm here to be in the past, and what happened before that should be done in the past. Haven't should therefore be replaced by hadn't
Nine. The voice of the verb
The object verb is used in the active voice to have an object, so it can become a passive voice; the intransitive verb cannot receive the object when used for the active voice, so there is no passive voice.
51．The two thieves have been disappeared.
disappear is an intransitive verb and therefore cannot be used in the passive voice. So remove the been.
52．The building built now will be our teaching building.
The table "Now under construction" applies the passive voice while it is in progress, so it is preceded by built with being.
53．He is being operated by the famous doctor.
When the active voice changes to a passive voice, pay attention to the integrity of the phrase verbs, and don't forget the prepositions or adverbs. "Give... The surgery "should be on the operation, so add on after the operation."
54．I wonder if the doctor has been sent.
For the same reason, for should be added after the sent.
55．The book written by him is sold well.
To say that a book is a bestseller is to refer to the properties of the book itself, so there is no passive voice. This sentence should be changed to: The book written by him sells well.
56．This history book is worthy reading.
"Worth being done" can be said in the following ways: be worth doing; be worthy of being done; Therefore this sentence should be: This history book is worthy to be read.
Ten. Non-predicate verbs
57．We are going to talk about the problem discussing at the last meeting.
The problem should be discussed, so change discusing to discussed.
58．The girl dressed herself in red is my sister.
dress is a transitive verb meaning "to... Dress", here for the participle as a definite modifier girl, girl should be its logical object, so herself is removed.
59．Being seriously ill, his class-mates sent him to hospital.
When participles are adjectives, the logical subject is the subject of the sentence, which should be "Because he was ill, his classmates sent him to the hospital", so the first half of the sentence was changed to: He being seriously ill.
60．Having not seen her for many years, we could hardly recognize her.
Now the negation of the participle should put not before the present participle, so the first half of the sentence should be changed to: Not having seen her for manyyears.
61．Seeing from the space, the earth looks like a ball.
The logical subject of the participle should be the subject of the sentence, and the earth in this sentence should be seen, so seeing was changed to See.
62．English is easy to learn it.
In this sentence is the infinitive as an adjective modification easy, English should be the logical object of the learn, so remove it.
63．I will get somebody repair the recorder for you.
"Let someone do something" can be expressed in several ways: make sb do sth; have sb do sth; So add to before the payback.
64．She decided to work harder in order to not fall behind the others.
The negation of the infinitive puts not before to. Therefore should be changed to:She decided to work harder in order not to fall behind the others.
65．It’s better to laugh than crying.
When comparing tables, the two sides of the comparison should be of the same structure, either nouns or infinitives. So there are two ways to change it: It's better to laugh than to cry or It's better laughing than crying.
66．It’s no use to send for the doctor.
It's useless to do something to say It's no use doing, so change to send to sending.
67．She practices to play the piano after school every day.
Practise was followed only by verbs as objects, so to play was changed to playing.
68．When the teacher came in, he stopped listening to the teacher.
Stop doing to stop doing something, and stop to do to do to stop doing something else. So the second half of the sentence should read: he stopped to listen to the teacher.
Eleven. Noun clauses
69．We are talking about if this plan should be carried out.
Both If and whether can guide the object clause of a verb, and if the subordinate clause is a prepositional object, it can only be guided by whether. So change if to whether.
70．I can not decide if to stay or not.
Only whether can be used with infinitives. So change if to whether.
71．My suggestion is we try for a second time.
The introductory word for a predicate clause, such as that, is generally not omitted. So add that before we.
72．What will the professor say is not known yet.
The word order of noun subordinate clauses is the declarative sentence word order. It should therefore be changed to: What the professor will say is not known yet.
twelve. Adverbial clauses
73．I will go unless he invites me.
The phrase means "I don't go unless he invites me." And unless is equivalent to if not, so this sentence should be changed to: I won't go unless he invites me.
74．Although he tried, but he still couldn’t keep up with the others.
Although and but cannot be used in one sentence at the same time, and it is okay to remove either one.
75．I won’t stay until he comes back.
Contains not... The predicate verb of the sentence until should be a point verb, and the verb of the affirmative sentence containing until should be a continuation verb, which can be modified in two ways: I will stay until he comes back.
thirteen. Definite clauses
76．An orphan is a child who’s parents are dead.
Determinant clause table "... The introductory word is only whose, so who's changed to whose.
77．This is the very thing which I lost yesterday.
If the precursor is a thing and preceded by the only, the last, the very modifier, the lead word of the definite clause can only be that.
78．This is the car for that I paid a high price。
The precursor of a definite clause is a thing, and when the guide word is placed after the preposition, it can only be used when wich.
79．She is one of the students who has passed the exam.
When a deterministic clause modifies one of adding a plural noun, the plural noun is the precursor to the determinant clause, so has been changed to has.
80．This is the place where we visited last year.
The precursor of the determinant clause is a relational pronoun or a relational adverb depends on whether the subject or object is missing in the determinant clause, such as the absence of relational pronouns, such as the absence of relational adverbs. In this sentence, visit is a transitive verb, followed by no object, so where is changed to wich or that.
81．I, who is your friend, can understand you.
The predicate verb of the determinant clause should be consistent with its precursor, so is changed to am.
82．China is a developing country, that is known to all.
The introductory word for an unqualified definite clause will never be that, so change that to wich or as.
fourteen. Subject-verb consistency
83．The poet and writer are invited to give a speech at the meeting.
Poet and writer share an article that refers to a person who holds both positions, so the predicate verb should be singular. Replace are with is.
84．No one except my parents know it.
The subject is followed by except plus a number of nouns, and the predicate verb is consistent with the subject. So change know to knows. Words or phrases with similar usages are: but, besides, with, together with, along with, as well as, etc.
85．Your clothes is on the table over there.
clothes is a plural noun, and a predicate verb should be plural. Change is to are.
86．The number of the students in that school are about one thousand.
The subject of this name is number and not students. Therefore, change are changed to is.
87．The class was watching TV when I entered the room.
When the class is the subject, it is seen as a whole when the predicate verb is used as the singular, and when the individual behavior of each member is seen, the predicate verb is plural. In general, some specific behaviors such as watching TV, eating, bathing, etc. belong to the individual behavior of each member. Here is the was changed to were.
88．The population of our country are increasing slowly now.
Population alone as subject predicate verbs are often used as singular; if there is a fraction or percentage before it and a plural noun followed by a plural, the predicate verb is plural. Here, change are to is.
fifteen. Flip
89．No sooner he had reached the station than the train left.
No sooner is a negative adverb, and the sentence should be partially reversed when placed at the beginning of the sentence, so this sentence should be changed to: No sooner had he reached the station than the train left.
90．Here comes he.
When here is placed at the beginning of a sentence, the sentence subject is completely reversed, but when the sentence subject is a pronoun, the subject is not reversed. This sentence should be replaced by: Here he comes.
91．A child as he is, he can speak five languages.
Using as to guide concession clauses, adjectives, adverbs, and nouns without an article can be placed before as. So the first half of the sentence is changed to: Child as he is...
sixteen. Subjunctive tone
92．She would have come if we invited her.
This is a virtual assumption contrary to past facts, and that the clause should be completed with the past tense. So add had after we.
93．My suggestion is that we would send a few people to help them.
The predicate clause of suggestion also applies a subjunctive mood, which must be preceded by a primitive verb that should be omitted. Remove would here or change would to should.
94．The secretary wishes that she has time to type the letter now.
The tense after wish should push the real tense backwards one tense, so change has to had.
95．It’s time that we go to bed.
The sentence form is It's time sb did sth so change go to went.
96．I would rather you have another try tomorrow.
The phrase is would rather sb did sth.
seventeen. There be sentences
97．There are a bag and several books on the table.
There be sentences follow the principle of proximity of predicate verbs, a bag is singular, so change are changed to is.
98．There were several people stood at the back of the room.
There be sentence predicate verbs are be verbs, and other verbs in a sentence should be non-predicate verbs. So changestood to standinging.
eighteen. Modifiers are not properly positioned in sentences
99.We almost have written twenty compositions this term.
Adverbs like almost are placed in sentences after auxiliary verbs, be verbs, and before actual verbs. So put most behind have.
100.The girl has beautiful, silky hair who lives high in the mountains.
The determinant clause should follow the antecedent, so change it to: The girl, who lives high in the mountains, has beautiful, silky hair.
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