This book has been written with the needs of secondary school and college students in mind but it may well interest the general public also. The intention has been to help students avoid the grammatical errors which mar the work of so many English language examination candidates, as teachers and examiners know only too well. Misrelated participles, errors in agreement, confusion with sentence boundaries, these are just a few of the mechanical errors which are discussed in A Guide to Better Grammar,
Ten Common Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling Errors to Avoid in Business Writing
Writing might not be your strength, but the way you write still says a lot to employers, clients, and co-workers. Like coming to a job interview in torn jeans and a stained sweatshirt, sending out poorly dressed written communication (with misspellings, grammar errors, and misplaced punctuation) will cause others to think less of your ability to do your job well.
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Common Errors in English Usage - 2nd Edition
Mixed-up, mangled expressions; foreign-language faux pas; confused and confusing terms; commonly mispronounced words--they're all explained in this useful guide. The Second Edition of this classic reference is revised & expanded by 25%.
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Indefinite and definite articles, such as “a”, “an” and “the”, describe and modify nouns. Articles and niggling little words known as determiners and quantifiers convey general and specific information. Articles tell the reader what you’re talking about and how much there is. Adults and advanced ESL students can run into many challenging situations where abstract and collective nouns make it difficult to decide whether to use “a”, “an” or “the.” In fact, article-related errors are one of the most frequent grammatical mistakes among ESL students representing 11% of all errors.
Score of 6 top grammar-checkers was implemented on a sample of the 80 most common types of errors. The evaluation is a summary table, which represents the number of errors found, depending on their type. Here are the results of the most common types of eroors and the number of detected errors, depending on the grammar-checker.
