Common English Language Errors for ESL Students

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• Subject-verb agreement errors: ESL students often make mistakes with subject-verb agreement, such as "She don't like pizza" instead of "She doesn't like pizza."

• Misuse of articles: Common mistakes include using "a" instead of "an" for singular countable nouns, and not using "the" for specific or known nouns.

• Incorrect word order: ESL students often put the verb before the subject, such as "Yesterday I went to the park" instead of "I went to the park yesterday."

• Confusion between similar words: Homophones like "they're," "there," and "their" are often confused, and students need to learn the differences between them.

• Overuse of verb tenses: ESL students may use the wrong verb tense or mix up tenses in a sentence, such as "I am see the movie yesterday" instead of "I saw the movie yesterday."

• Mispronunciation: Students may pronounce words incorrectly, such as "I think I can do it" with incorrect stress or intonation.

• Incorrect use of prepositions: Common mistakes include using "in" instead of "on" for locations, such as "I'm in the bus" instead of "I'm on the bus."

• Omission of auxiliary verbs: ESL students may leave out auxiliary verbs in sentences, such as "She going to the store" instead of "She is going to the store."

• Literal translation from native language: Students may translate idioms or phrases directly from their native language, which can lead to incorrect or awkward phrasing.

• Misuse of plurals: Common mistakes include using the wrong plural form of a noun, such as "I have two apple" instead of "I have two apples."

• Incorrect use of possessive forms: ESL students may confuse possessive pronouns and possessive nouns, such as "I went to my friend house" instead of "I went to my friend's house."

• Confusion between countable and uncountable nouns: Students may not know whether to use "some" or "any" with a noun, such as "I need some advices" instead of "I need some advice."

• Misuse of modal verbs: ESL students may use the wrong modal verb or misuse their meanings, such as "I can to swim" instead of "I can swim."

• Misuse of phrasal verbs: Students may not know the correct meaning or usage of phrasal verbs, such as "The man turned out being a doctor" instead of "The man turned out to be a doctor."

• Confusion between gerunds and infinitives: ESL students may not know when to use a gerund (-ing form) or an infinitive (to + verb), such as "I enjoy to read" instead of "I enjoy reading."

• Misuse of adjectives and adverbs: Students may not know the difference between adjectives and adverbs, such as "She sings beautiful" instead of "She sings beautifully."

• Misuse of conjunctions: ESL students may not know how to use conjunctions correctly, such as "I want pizza but I don't like I one pizza" instead of "I want pizza, but I don't like it."

• Failure to use appropriate sentence connectors: Students may not know how to use sentence connectors like "so" or "because" to show relationships between ideas.

• Difficulty with idiomatic expressions: ESL students may not know the meanings of idiomatic expressions, such as "It's raining cats and dogs."

• Misuse of punctuation: Common mistakes include not using commas to separate items in a list, or using incorrect capitalization.

• Literal translation of idioms: Students may translate idioms directly from their native language, which can lead to incorrect or awkward phrasing.

• Misuse of verb tenses (continued): ESL students may misuse the present perfect tense, past perfect tense, or other verb tenses in sentences.

• Confusion between similar words (continued): Students may confuse words like "good" and "well," or "all" and "every."

• Misuse of collective nouns: ESL students may not know the correct collective nouns for certain groups, such as "a pride of wolves" instead of "a pack of wolves."

• Misuse of pronouns: Students may not know how to use pronouns correctly, such as "Me and my friend went to the movies" instead of "My friend and I went to the movies."

• Misuse of numbers with uncountable nouns: ESL students may not know how to use numbers with uncountable nouns, such as "I have two informations" instead of "I have two pieces of information."

• Misuse of would and will: Students may not know how to use would and will correctly, such as "I would have gone there" instead of "I would have gone there if I had the chance."

• Misuse of then and than: ESL students may confuse then (indicating time) and than (indicating comparison).

• Misuse of who's and whose: Students may not know how to use who's (possessive form of who) and whose (possessive form of which) correctly.

• Misuse of effect and affect: ESL students may not know how to use effect (noun) and affect (verb) correctly.

• Misuse of lay and lie: Students may not know how to use lay (to put or place) and lie (to recline or rest) correctly.

• Misuse of false friends: ESL students may not know that words can have different meanings in other languages, such as "actual" meaning "really" in English but "currently" in Spanish.

• Misuse of fewer and less: Students may not know how to use fewer (with countable nouns) and less (with uncountable nouns) correctly.

• Misuse of farther and further: ESL students may not know how to use farther (physical distance) and further (metaphorical distance or advancement) correctly.

• Misuse of who and that in relative clauses: Students may not know how to use who (for people) and that (for objects or animals) correctly.

• Misuse of bring and take: ESL students may not know how to use bring (movement towards the speaker) and take (movement away from the speaker) correctly.

• Misuse of in and into: Students may not know how to use in (location or position) and into (movement towards the inside) correctly.

• Misuse of used to: ESL students may not know how to use used to (indicating a past habit) correctly.

• Misuse of so and such: Students may not know how to use so (before adjectives or adverbs) and such (before nouns) correctly.

• Misuse of who and whom as objects of prepositions: ESL students may not know how to use who (subject) and whom (object) correctly.

• Misuse of lose and loose: Students may not know how to use lose (to be unable to find) and loose (not tight or firmly fixed) correctly.

• Misuse of like and as: ESL students may not know how to use like (to compare nouns or pronouns) and as (to introduce a clause indicating manner or degree) correctly.

• Misuse of would for hypothetical situations: Students may not know how to use would (for hypothetical situations) correctly.

• Misuse of will and going to for future intentions: ESL students may not know how to use will (for spontaneous decisions or predictions) and going to (for planned intentions) correctly.

• Misuse of anyone and anyone: Students may not know how to use anyone (any person) and anyone (any individual item from a group) correctly.

• Misuse of everyday and everyday: ESL students may not know how to use every day (each day) and everyday (ordinary or common) correctly.

• Misuse of have and get for possession: Students may not know how to use have (to indicate possession or ownership) and get (to acquire something) correctly.

• Misuse of lend and borrow: ESL students may not know how to use lend (to give something away temporarily) and borrow (to take something temporarily) correctly.

• Misuse of under and below: Students may not know how to use under (beneath or covered by something) and below (at a lower level or beneath in a hierarchy) correctly.

• Misuse of few and a few: ESL students may not know how to use few (a small number with a negative connotation) and a few (some or a small number with a positive connotation) correctly.

• Misuse of each other and one another: Students may not know how to use each other (for two people or things) and one another (for more than two people or things) correctly.

• Misuse of on time and in time: ESL students may not know how to use on time (punctuality or at the scheduled time) and in time (with enough time to spare) correctly.

• Misuse of bored and boring: Students may not know how to use bored (feeling uninterested or tired) and boring (causing boredom) correctly.

• Misuse of advice and advise: ESL students may not know how to use advice (noun meaning recommendations or guidance) and advise (verb meaning to offer recommendations or guidance) correctly.

• Misuse of except and except: Students may not know how to use except (to exclude or leave out) and except (to indicate a fundamental truth or guiding rule) correctly.

• Misuse of believe and think: ESL students may not know how to use believe (to accept something as true or real) and think (to consider or form