MISTAKES

Hi everyone!

Already Monday!how was your weekend?I hope you had a good one,mine was relaxing and productive because I was checking your compositions.This post will be devoted to the most important mistakes you made in your compositions. Don´t worry about them or get too embarrassed as mistakes are the stepping stones to learning

TOP TEN MISTAKES

1. I´m not agree This is a typical mistake, agree needs the auxiliary don´t/ doesn´t for negative sentences in the present. I agree / I don´t agree
2. Frequency adverbs and their position in the clause: Most students made this mistake. The correct position is: I am always punctual: TO BE+frequency adverb/ He always has a coffee after lunch: frequency adverb+verb
3. for/ since and ago. We use for and since with perfect tenses and ago with the past simple.Can you tell the difference between these sentences?He has lived in Cuenca for 5 years/ He lived in Cuenca 5 years ago. In the first one, he still lives in Cuenca while in the second one,the action is completely finished.
4. Talk+ prep TO someone/ Tell someone to do sth/ speak with
5. Arrive in a place.They arrived in London at midnight.
6. Like/Love+ verb ing
7. The last week we decided to travel to Miami on holidays.This is a very typical mistake, we don´t use "the" to tak about periods of time (week, year, month).Read more here: http://elblogdelingles.blogspot.com/2007/02/lesson-38-cundo-usamos.html
8. A/an+job. He´s a pilot
9. To assist vs To attend. These two verbs are false friends for Spanish speakers. To assist= to help, To attend: to be present at (asistir), e.g. to attend lessons
10. Advice is an uncountable noun. A piece of advice (un consejo)

Well, I hope you have learned a lot from you mistakes, bear them in mind for your next composition and remember this:

See you later!