Students in International Institutions who have English as their second language face issue of grammar and punctuation mistakes that lead to lose their grades even if they have done hard work. There are many common mistakes that students makes while writing their academic tasks or professional while writing in English after hiring a coursework writing service. Few of them are listed below with brief description;
- Incorrect Verbs
This is problem occurs with students who do not have comprehensive understanding of tenses so they are unable to use appropriate verb form in the sentence. So to avoid this mistake one should try to learn tenses or if/she has an opportunity to use writing apps instead of hand writing then check the grammar mistakes as a final check of your written document.
- Subject-Verb Disagreement
Those who understand tenses know that subject and verb in a sentence must agree with each other. Here, you need to pay full attention towards the similarity of subject and verb for example you are using singular subject then it requires using singular verb in the sentence.
- Run-on Sentences and Comma Splices
Comma splices and run-on sentences are interlinked errors that occur when two or more clauses are linked by using conjunction (and/for/but/not/so/yet/or) but the required punctuation is missing. For example;
I love dancing and I am getting good time to do practice as well but the class duration is long to make me stressed.
This sentence has three clauses like I love dancing, I am getting good time for practice, and class duration is long to make me stressed
So it can be corrected in as;
I love dancing, and I am getting good time to do practice as well, but the class duration is long to make me stressed.
- Comma Misuse
This is among the most widely used punctuation mark for diverse purposes but still encounters the misuse. There are more mistakes of using comma as there are many ways to use it. It is not punctuation with not any meaning or its presence or absence does not matter but its presence or absence can completely change the meaning of sentence. For Example;
Incorrect: Let’s Eat Bro.
Correct: Let’s Eat, Bro.
- Apostrophe Misuse
After comma, it is apostrophe that causes mistakes and lead the reader to miss-interpret the meaning of sentence. It is used to describe that a noun is in a possessive case. Example;
Michelle’ home (home belongs to Michelle)
- Spelling Mistakes
This is the worst mistake that one can make while studying throughout English education system but cannot spell correctly. But for those who are at binger level encounters this mistake. Chances of spelling mistake in hand writing are increasing even for routine users of the language because of excessive use of writing apps those are automatically correcting these mistakes.
- Ambiguous Modifiers
These are the words/phrases/clauses those are used to describe the meaning of previous or next word/phrase. For example;
Incorrect: Those who work hard rarely get failure.
Correct: Those who work hard get failure rarely.