WRITING: MOST COMMON MISTAKES
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Con
cordancia
Sujeto
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Ve
rbo
- Algunos nombres en plural llevan el verbo en singular, por ejemplo, news,
athletics, economics, politics, measles,…
• ‘News
is
on TV at 8:00pm.’
• ‘Politics
is
a dirty game.’
• ‘Measles
is
especially common among children.’
- Nombres en singular y plural que terminan en -s: series, means,…
• ‘My favourite series
has been
cancelled’ (singular) / ‘All the series of Netflix
are
good’ (plural)
• ‘Railway is
a
means (singular) of transportation, but
there are
also several other
good means (plural) of transportation.
- Plurales irregulares: children, people, feet, men… usan verbos en plural.
• Some
children are
playing outside.
• A lot of
people are
asking for food.
• Your
feet are
beautiful.
- Pronombres indefinidos: anyone, anybody, each, either, none llevan el verbo en
singular.
•
Anyone knows
why he came to the party.
•
Each of us has
a laptop.
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Orden correcto de las frases: Subject-Verb-Object
- Siempre incluir un sujeto en la frase:
• Is important to train everyday to be a good basketball player. (Incorrecto)
•
It
is important to train…. (Correcto)
- Si la oración tiene un adverbio junto a un sustantivo, hay que poner el adverbio
después del sustantivo:
• Dani did the job slowly (Correcto)
• Dani did slowly the job (Incorrecto)
- Los adverbios de frecuencia se colocan entre el sujeto y el verbo:
• Dani never drinks beer during the week. (Correcto)
• Never drinks beer Dani. (Incorrecto)
- No hay inversión sujeto-verbo en imperativos o preguntas indirectas
introducidas por How, who, where, what, why:
• Ask Gina
where my book is
. (Correcta)
• Ask Gina where is my book. (Incorrecta)
• I want to know
why you did it
. (Correcta)
• I want to know why did you did it. (Incorrecta)
• Tell us
who you are
. (Correcto)
• Tell us who are you. (Incorrecto)
