Correct Your English Errors Second Edition

The bestselling ESL guide—now with extra review exercises to reinforce lessons learned Do you tend to repeat the same mistakes when you speak or write in English? This fun and engaging guide will help you communicate like a native English speaker on a consistent basis. Correct Your English Errors, Second Edition is a comprehensive guide to correcting the bad habits that can leave your audience confused. This skill-building book clearly explains all the key elements of English grammar and provides hundreds of examples of errors learners often make—all presented in color to make them stand out and easier to avoid. Correct Your English Errors, Second Edition: • Highlights common ESL pitfalls, including mispronunciation, misspelling, verb tense issues, and subject-verb agreement • Helps you avoid the misapplication of your own native grammar rules to English • Includes practical review exercises at the end of each chapter • Includes a new review chapter designed to test your mastery of the book’s entire content

Speak and write English as if it were your native tongue! Are you tired of making the same mistakes in English again and again? End the bad habits that can leave the people you talk to confused. Correct Your English Errors warns you of hundreds of typical errors learners make and explains the reasons behind the mistakes, so you can correct yourself in the future. Improve your English skills with this fun and comprehensive guide and avoid all the common mistakes, such as: Mispronouncing and misspelling words Applying your native language's grammar patterns to English Putting verbs in the wrong tense Using incorrect prepositions in expressions Confusing subject-verb agreement Correct Your English Errors offers exercises covering all parts of grammar and provides review passages to check that you are error-free. Soon, biting your nails will be your only bad habit!

Online version of Common Errors in English Usage written by Paul Brians.

Mixing genders, inverting subjects and objects, and using false cognates are just a few of the common blunders ESL learners have been making from time immemorial. With the help of numerous examples, practical exercises, and quick-reference tables, this book helps you break your bad habits (or avoid falling into them), correct your mistakes and have fun doing it. It covers pronunciation and spelling; punctuation and capitalization; grammar; and vocabulary.

Tired of always making the same mistakes when writing an essay in English? The English Error Book is for you. Optimize your memorization and write down your mistakes so you never make them again. Take your notebook with you everywhere and write down a hundred of your worst mistakes. Review it regularly and improve your level of English quickly. With the English error book, you will manage to: - List 100 of your main errors in English and classified them - Optimize your memorization - never make the same mistakes again - Significantly improve your written and oral skills in English Your English Error Notebook - Grab a pencil and write down any mistakes you make in English in this cute little notebook. This fill-in English notebook is great for you to stop making the same mistakes over and over again and losing points stupidly. You can organize your mistakes and reread them as many times as you like so you never forget them. Careful presentation. The elegantly arranged pages of this notebook are just waiting to be filled out. This 6x9-inch notebook offers space for 100 error sheets. It includes a summary to complete and extra pages to find the grammar point corresponding to your mistake. For each mistake, you can select the category of the mistake: mistake on the verbal group, on the nominal group, on the sentence, or simply a vocabulary/spelling mistake. This will allow you to search and find an error quickly! Space is also provided to indicate your progress in learning about the error. As soon as you re-read the error, tick one of the three boxes. As soon as you have filled in an error form, indicate its name in the summary. This way, when you really know it by heart, all you have to do is tick the small box on the right. Use Amazon's « Look Inside » function or take a look at the back cover of the notebook for an example of the inside page. Test it, you will not regret it Perfect for essays or just to improve

The ESL edition of Common Errors in English offers a comprehensive survey of the sorts of difficulties second language learners most often experience with English—and provides real help to students in overcoming them. The body of the book is organized according to grammatical categories, covering such topics as Verb Tense difficulties; Word Order Problems; Negation; Gerunds and Direct Objects; Singular and Plural Difficulties; and Direct and Indirect Speech. Included as well is a comprehensive section on usage and meaning, and a list of words commonly misspelled. The authors take care to avoid the harshly prescriptive; the book is informed throughout by a sympathetic understanding both of the difficulties that face every ESL student and of the particular problems faced by individuals from different linguistic backgrounds as they learn the peculiarities of English grammar and usage. The book includes a generous selection of exercises informed by these principles, and an accompanying answer key. Common Errors in English: ESL Edition will be an invaluable reference text for second language learners at a wide variety of levels.

It has been estimated that over a billion people are using or learning English as a second or foreign language, and the numbers are growing not only for English but for other languages as well. These language learners provide a burgeoning market for tools that help identify and correct learners' writing errors. Unfortunately, the errors targeted by typical commercial proofreading tools do not include those aspects of a second language that are hardest to learn. This volume describes the types of constructions English language learners find most difficult: constructions containing prepositions, articles, and collocations. It provides an overview of the automated approaches that have been developed to identify and correct these and other classes of learner errors in a number of languages. Error annotation and system evaluation are particularly important topics in grammatical error detection because there are no commonly accepted standards. Chapters in the book describe the options available to researchers, recommend best practices for reporting results, and present annotation and evaluation schemes. The final chapters explore recent innovative work that opens new directions for research. It is the authors' hope that this volume will continue to contribute to the growing interest in grammatical error detection by encouraging researchers to take a closer look at the field and its many challenging problems.

A witty, fast-paced guide to eliminating those annoying and frustrating French bloopers Mixing genders, inverting subjects and objects, and trusting false cognates are just a few of the blunders English-speaking French-language learners commonly make. In Correct Your French Blunders, veteran French teacher Véronique Mazet identifies these and other common trouble spots and clearly explains the reasons behind them. You will discover how grammar patterns of French differ from those of English and why trying to translate word for word, structure for structure, from English, can lead to big trouble. You will learn to break bad habits and correct your mistakes while developing a much more natural feel for French language patterns with the help of: More than 1,000 highlighted examples of common blunders to avoid A free app available on iTunes for interactive practice for obliterating those blunders Numerous examples and practical exercises Quick-reference panels for checking correct tense forms A "Hall of Shame" compendium of bad errors to recognize and correct