Collins Common Errors in English.

2013. — 192 p.

Focussing on the most common errors in English, this book is the easiest way to improve your everyday language skills. Using simple explanations and corpus examples, it uses a thematic approach to steer learners away from the most common pitfalls in English. This invaluable guide is suitable for learners of English wishing to improve their accuracy and avoid the most basic mistakes. The book offers help with Spelling and Punctuation, and covers the major parts of speech in depth. It offers clear guidance on word choice and confusable words. A comprehensive exercise section also reinforces the key points for each thematic section. What's more, its clear, thematic layout makes information easy to find and understand. Suitable for learners of English with a pre-intermediate to intermediate level of English (A2-B2), but who want to improve their accuracy by overcoming the most common mistakes made by non-native speakers of English.

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Contents
Introduction
Verbs
Verb patterns
Prepositions after verbs
Modal verbs (can, must, should etc.)
Using special types of verb
Phrasal verbs
Tenses
Present tenses Past tenses Future tenses Irregular verbs
Nouns
Uncountable, mass, and plural nouns Use of articles Determiners and quantifiers Prepositions and verb patterns Plurals
Adjectives
Position of adjectives Comparing adjectives Expressing degree with adjectives ing and -ed adjectives Prepositions after adjectives Structures after adjectives Determiner + adjective + noun/one
Adverbs and Adverbial Phrases
How to use adverbs and adverbial phrases Position of adverbs and adverbial phrases Comparing adverbs
Pronouns
Personal pronouns Possessive pronouns Reflexive pronouns Other types of pronoun Position of pronouns
Prepositions
Sentences
Questions
Question tags
Answers
Negatives
Conjunctions
Conditionals
Relative clauses
Phrases
Collocation
Which Word?
Confusable Words
Words that sound the same
Other words that are often confused
Topics
Numbers Time Travel Age
Meals
Colours
Speaking
Spelling
General spelling rules
Punctuation
Apostrophes ['] Commas [,] Question marks [?] Quotation marks [' ' or " "] Capital letters
Exercises and Solutions
Glossary
Index

This book is in several parts:
• The first sections are organized by part of speech. In short, clear paragraphs, they explain the most common errors connected with each part of speech. For instance, the section on verbs covers areas such as using the correct preposition after a verb, and how to avoid mistakes with modal verbs and phrasal verbs. These sections also include information on tenses and making sentences.
• The next sections focus on choosing the right word. There are many reasons why it can be easy to confuse words. It may be because they sound the same or look similar (eg board/bored, desert/dessert), because they have similar but slightly different meanings (eg continual/continuous, blame/fault), or because it is easy to confuse the different parts of speech (eg breath and breathe). Many mistakes are made because of a confusion with another language (eg actual/current, library/bookshop), and these sections deal with those errors too.

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