Common mistakes in Compositions

Articles:

-A/An: a old friend / a older brother / a exam / a institution

-The : - the last Sunday / the next month

- My favourite animal is X dog.

I´m going to talk about the students.
I´m very fond of the sport.
X people from Segovia.
Demonstratives:

-This: this people / this problems / this things

-That: that tired eyes

Pronouns: - people are more comfortable in your home

to confront we life
the society is giving they
as he would like them to treat he

Indefinites: - I didn´t say nothing

you don´t learn nothing
- everybody have done their plans
everybody study...
- I don´t like sports nothing
- some things=something
every thing=everything

Plurals: - bodyes / childrens / lifes / probabilityes

- I was a children
- person=people
Adjectives:

-No plural: - my favourites films

differents from the university
they get simples, easies and accesibles jobs
professions which are betters

-Syntax: - students are people young

many subjects differents
it´s a town very beautiful
the cinema is a place very interesting
a pianist very famous
a function very important

-Others: - many money / much people

- time enough / enough strong
- others jobs / others children / anothers people
- bored=boring / tired= tiring
- every rooms / every people
- everyday=all day
- little=small

Adverbs:

-Position: - they always have had

they usually don´t have time
also I think
often we are advised
I don´t go hardly ever
-Negative: - I haven´t never seen / I don´t never go

-"Very": - very people / I don´t know very persons

Relatives: - the person which / the paper who / there is a
Spanish proverb what say / I know people than didn´t
(wich)
- I know people that they don´t have qualifications
There are people that they have learnt

Double subject: - Going to school it isn´t

All it couldn´t be good

Subject omission: - but today X are rich and famous

because X is a good sport
many people are lucky because X haven´t lost -impersonal "it":
- X will be hard
X is impossible/important
now X is very difficult
X is true that...

Verbs:

-Sequence: - He came and I will tell him...

-Concordance: - people is / people was / he were /

there is some people / we is taught /
he have got / school teach-help /
people doesn´t need / we does need /
children goes

-Modal verbs: - you can´t working / couldn´t to use /

we´ll are / will can to play /
will must say you´re sorry

-Conjugation: - don´t have gone / they to be / he don´t is

she didn´t has / why don´t I am? /
I don´t won / they have to left university
I want go / we don´t depended
-Spelling: - studys / studing / studyed / cryed / sayd /
seing / writen / writting / can not / musn´t /
thinks=things

-Negation: - My friend cried but I not

There are a lot of people that not know.

-Other verbs:
- like: - the film likes my brother
We like travel to meet people
I´d like being a pianist
I like very much travelling

- win=earn: - he wins a lot of money

- spend: - I spent very well

I spent very good with them

- happen: - In the world it has happened very accidents

Today it has happened an important event

*something happened ( TO somebody )

It happens that...
He/She happens to be...
What has happened?
In case that happened...

- lend/borrow: - He borrowed me money

I lent money from the bank
*lend somebody something
borrow something (FROM somebody )
 - steal/rob: - he stole a bank
she robbed money
*steal something (FROM ...)
rob somebody/somewhere

- answer/call/help: - answer to their questions

- call to the police
- help to their parents
- explain: - he explained X me

- arrive: - he arrived to Albacete

*arrive IN/AT get TO reach

- die/live: - He has dead

She is died.
- speak/tell/say/talk: - I said X him
- I told to her
- I spoke with...
- They talked of...
- go up=get up
- stand=stay
- be/get worried-married...
- be/fall in love with...
- I want/like/would like somebody TO do something
Prepositions:

- Prep. + V-ing: - but before to call somebody...

- Wrong prep.: - in train/airplane/coach...

- by foot/in home/in the floor/in the chair
- different of.../the same that...
- Under my point of view...
- besides of my education
- they are influencing a lot of on me
 - I know a lot of education
Comparatives: - better that
- better of the rest

Purpose: - they need to have primary studies for be a grave-

digger
he likes going to the park for watching...
Smith left him for to sing alone
we need for live the life

Redundancy: - In my opinion I think...

From my point of view I think...

Age: -when we have got four years old...

when I was 12 years X

Inverse Translation:
- However sometimes although your family is good if you
are a bad son...
- Anybody think that to study isn´t need since can
working in profession which like to person
- I have got a memories of my life in the school very
funnies

Other words:

- overcoat=above all
- true=truth
- eventual=occasional
- actual/actually=at present/nowadays/today
- quiet=quite
- then=after