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❌5️⃣ COMMON MISTAKES WITH PREPOSITIONS❌

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❌5️⃣ COMMON MISTAKES WITH PREPOSITIONS❌

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#Prepositions

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❌5️⃣ COMMON MISTAKES WITH PREPOSITIONS❌

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❎Common mistakes with “ABOVE”❎

• He likes reading, above all novels.❎
• He likes reading, especially novels.✅

✨Explanation:

📕Above all means “most importantly”:

• Get plenty of sleep, eat lots of good food, and above all try to relax.
• There were many qualities that made him a great leader. Above all , he had charisma.

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❎Common mistakes with “ABOVE”❎

• There were above a hundred people in the crowd.❎
• There were over a hundred people in the crowd.✅

✨Explanation:

🚨Don’t use above with NUMBERS (unless referring to points on a scale):

• He is over eighty years of age.
• I receive over twenty letters a day.

⚠️Compare:

• Don’t let the temperature get above thirty degrees.

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❎Common mistakes with “ABOVE”❎

• This year, English is above all my most important subject.❎
• This year, English is by far my most important subject.✅

✨Explanation:

📘With a superlative form “the most important” use by far:

• Watching sport was by far the most popular activity on Saturday afternoons.

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✨Don’t say👎🏻, but say👍🏻✨

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✨ Common mistake ✨

• Probably he likes soccer.❎

• He PROBABLY likes soccer.✅

🔸Explanation:

We don’t normally start a sentence with probably. Probably usually goes  before the main verb or after the verb to be.

🔹Before the main verb:

• Your dog probably wants to go outside.✅
• Probably, your dog wants to go outside.❎
• I probably have a cold.✅
• Probably, I have a cold.❎

🔹After the verb to be:

• He’s probably sick.✅
• Probably, he’s sick.❎
• We’re probably going to be late because of all this traffic.✅
• Probably, we’re going to be late.❎


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✨ Common mistakes ✨

♦️I’m thinking of TO go home because I’m tired.❎

♦️I’m thinking of GOING home because I’m tired.✅

🔸Explanation:

If we use a verb immediately after a preposition, we need the gerund. We can never use the infinitive immediately after a preposition.

Some common prepositions are on, of, before, after, to, in, about, and with.

🔘Examples:

• I’m reading a book about starting your own business.

• After studying all day, I was tired.

• Besides running, I also like playing soccer.

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✨ TASTE 🆚 TRY ✨


❌Don’t say: During your visit you’ll be able to taste some of the local dishes.

✅Say: During your visit you’ll be able to try some of the local dishes.

🔹When you taste something, you put a little in your mouth to see what it is like.

✨The chef stirred the soup, tasted it, and then added a little salt.

🔹When you have something to eat or drink for the first time, you try it.

✨I think I’ll try the onion soup! What’s it like?


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✨Common mistakes!

❎The names on the list were unknown to me.

✅ The names on the list were unfamiliar to me.

🔹 Explanation:

🔘 UNKNOWN usually describes something people in general do not know or know very little about.

🔘 Something that you yourself have not seen, heard, or experienced before is UNFAMILIAR ( to you ).


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✨Common mistakes


🔹We went to London and enjoyed very much.❌

🔹We went to London and enjoyed our stay very much.✅

🔹We went to London and enjoyed ourselves very much.✅

✨The verb ENJOY requires an expressed object. If there is no object, you should use an appropriate emphatic pronoun.


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✨Abroad
#adverb

➖Since I was small, I've always wanted to go to abroad.✘
➖Since I was small, I've always wanted to go abroad.✅

➖I would like to continue my studies in abroad.✘
➖I would like to continue my studies abroad.✅
          
◆◆◆

🔻go/live/be abroad (WITHOUT to, at, in etc)

The only preposition that is used before abroad is FROM:

➖She came back from abroad saying how much she had missed her home and family.


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◆ The company will not accept to buy new machines.✖️

◆ The company will not agree to buy new machines.✔️
          

✨You accept someone's advice, opinion, or suggestion

BUT you agree (= say you are willing) to do something.

♦️Compare:

◆ I accepted her suggestion and agreed to see the doctor that evening.

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🔻Remember!


✨That's mean = someone did or said something rude or harmful.

✨That means = you're defining a word, phase, or expression.


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🔻Learner Errors with “LAY”


  ✨Lay means 👉🏻 to put something in a particular place or position:

➖I always lay my clothes carefully on the chair when I undress.
➖He laid the book on the desk.

  ✨Lie means 👉🏻 to be in a particular place or position:

➖I found the cat lying in front of the fire.
➖He loves to lie on the beach all day.
➖Papers were lying all over the desk.

  ✨Lay is also 👉🏻 the past form of the verb lie:
➖The book lay on the floor where I’d left it.


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🔹Accomplish 🆚 Achieve


◾️To accomplish world unity, we need peace.✘
◽️To achieve world unity, we need peace.☑️

◾️A balanced diet is accomplished by eating many different kinds of food.✘
◽️A balanced diet is achieved by eating many different kinds of food.☑️
          

  ✨When you accomplish something, you manage to do it or complete it, especially something that gives you satisfaction:

🔻She felt that she could accomplish more through journalism.
🔻During his five years as President, he accomplished very little.

   ✨When you achieve something, you manage to do or obtain what you have planned to do or obtain, especially after a lot of effort:

🔺The company intends to achieve all these goals within the next five years.
🔺By the age of twenty, she had already achieved her ambition.

⚠️Note that achieve is also used to mean 'accomplish':

🔸By the end of the course, you will feel that you've really achieved something.


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✨Comma Splice


🔻A comma splice occurs when you divide two complete clauses with a comma. Although we may use this phrasing when we speak, it is always a mistake when you write.

🔸Hand me the salt and pepper, the eggs are bland. ✘
🔸You sat on my pastry, now I can’t eat it. ✘
🔸The birds come to the feeder every day, I have to refill it
constantly. ✘

🔻When two clauses are related, they should be joined by a comma
and a conjunction, or divided by either a semicolon or a period (if they belong in two separate sentences). If you examine the incorrect examples, you will notice that—in addition to the solution of using either a semicolon or a period—you might alternatively try using a conjunction such as because, so, or and.

🔹You sat on my pastry, so now I can’t eat it. ✔️
🔹You sat on my pastry; now I can’t eat it. ✔️

➕Bonus:

🔻Although a semicolon is a handy replacement in a comma splice for related clauses, one should never separate unrelated clauses with a semicolon.

🔹The birds come to the feeder every day; tomorrow I leave for Zimbabwe.

It may have a nice ring to it, but the clauses have nothing to do with each other.

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