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Common Mistakes

What it is: High-frequency errors learners make. What it’s for: Fix mistakes early to improve faster. Example: “He go” ❌ → “He goes” ✅

Typical mistakes

  • 3rd person -s: “She work” ❌ → “She works” ✅
  • Countable vs uncountable: “many informations” ❌ → “much information” ✅
  • Prepositions: “in Monday” ❌ → “on Monday” ✅
  • Tense mismatch: “Yesterday I go” ❌ → “Yesterday I went” ✅
  • Word order: “I very like it” ❌ → “I like it very much” ✅

Quick fix habit

  • Make a “mistake list” and review weekly.
  • For each mistake, store 1 correct example sentence.

Hard words (Glossary)

  • *countable* /ˈkaʊntəbl/: đếm được
  • *uncountable* /ʌnˈkaʊntəbl/: không đếm được
  • *mismatch* /ˌmɪsˈmætʃ/: không khớp
english/foundations/common-mistakes.txt · Last modified: by phong2018