Thursday, January 10, 2008

30. ANALYZED Common Errors in English

Oops, I think I do still "LOTS" of mistakes, but I´m an ESL-Student and...,..and nonetheless, I think that´s just a good way to learn from other people´s typical grammar mistakes.


Recognize YOUR mistakes:

Common Grammatical Errors

Accurately described incorrect/correct sample sentences
http://www.umsl.edu/~keelr/rok/grammar.html

Englishplus.com
Accurately described incorrect/correct sample sentences
http://englishplus.com/grammar/mistcont.htm

Common Errors In English Usage
Compared definitions based on error-prone word pairs
With search engine
http://www.wsu.edu/%7Ebrians/errors/errors.html
Scroll down on this page !

http://www.cbi.edu/literature/errors.htm

University of Kentucky
Prof. Robert Tannenbaum´s very useful hints
http://www.uky.edu/~rst/Hints%20index.html
or
http://www.uky.edu/~rst/Hints.html

Hit Parade of Errors, University of Toronto
http://www.utoronto.ca/writing/hitparade.html

Oxford´s Classic Errors
http://www.askoxford.com/betterwriting/classicerrors/?view=

Jack Lynch´s Grammar and Style Notes
http://www.tp4.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/~ub/HTML/englishgrammar.html

English Language Institute
http://www.eli.ubc.ca/students/language/index.html

Karen´s Linguistics Issues
http://www3.telus.net/linguisticsissues/commonerrorsinenglish.html

J. Hodges
http://www.thomasu.edu/people/jhodges/gramglos.htm

Language Error Analysis (interactive)
http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/analysis/index.htm
Click on Student Writing 1 - 7

List of commonly misused English language phrases
Accurately described incorrect/correct sample sentences
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_frequently_misused_English_words

Garbl´s Editorial Style Manual
http://home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/a.htm

More ?, Go to the GRAMMAR section.