Common mistakes people make in your society during speaking listening reading and writing English?

Answer 1

Common Mistakes in Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening # One very common mistake exists in each segment of language learning including speaking, reading and writing in our society is that people want to learn through translation. They don't think in the language, instead, they translate their thoughts. Natural way of learning any language is the way a child uses. A child uses the way of naming and expressing thoughts. He copies the facial expressions and pronunciations and keeps in mind what does something stand for. To overcome the habit of translating things, one should use English to English dictionary instead of a bilingual dictionary. Using thesaurus is another good idea. One can easily introduce himself to the new words by using English to English dictionary and thesaurus. # Another mistake people make in daily life is to learn words in isolation without considering their context. Different words may have different meaning in different context. In addition if the words are used in Slang then they stand for something very different from their word to word meaning. For example "What's up" is slang. It has the same meaning as "How are you?" But if one takes each word from this expression and translate it then it would definitely mean something different. Some words can be used as verbs as well as nouns, but people mistakenly misunderstand the sentences if they can not differentiate among parts of speech. # It is observed that many people mistakenly use past participle form of main verb with helping verb "did" in sentences. It's a grammatical mistake people often don't care of. For example "I did not wanted to ruin his dreams." Is a wrong sentence, the correct grammatical one is "I did not want to ruin his dreams." # In writing, many people use "Their" and "There" interchangeably wrong word at the wrong place. They mistakenly use "Their" instead of "There" when they want to refer to a certain place. And in similar case they use "There" when they want to write a plural possessive pronoun. There are many other words those are used mistakenly. For example "Effect" and "Affect", "Where", "Were" and "Wear", "Then" and "Than