Mistakes A-Z
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A (16)
- a(n): ✓ three times A week, a hundred miles AN hour ✗ three times *at/in* *a/the* week
- a: ✓ a ✗ an
- above all vs. overall
- accident: ✓ accident ✗ incident
- actually = veramente, in realtà (≠ attualmente)
- advice ≠ avviso
- advice: ✓ advice: ✗ advices, an advice
- affect vs. effect
- afterwards: ✓ afterwards ✗ after
- almost: ✓ almost, nearly ✗ quite
- although: ✓ although ✗ despite
- anymore: ✓ anymore, any more ✗ more
- aptitude vs. attitude
- arrive: ✓ arrive at/in ✗ arrive to
- average: ✓average ✗ medium, middle
- avoid: ✓ avoid doing ✗ *avoid to do*
B (7)
- be a(n): ✓ she’s a doctor ✗ she’s doctor, she does the doctor
- be: ✓ be ✗ have
- because of: ✓because of ✗ for
- been vs. gone
- born: ✓ I was born ✗ I am born, I borned, I born
- bring up: ✓ bring up ✗ grow up
- by: ✓ by ✗ within
C (9)
- cancellare = delete (computer), cross out (pen), rub out/erase (pencil)
- car: ✓ by car, in the/my car ✗ in car, on the/my car
- careful: ✓ be careful ✗ pay attention
- check vs. control: ✓ check ✗ control
- classic vs. classical
- complain: ✓ complain ✗ claim
- congratulate: ✓ congratulate someone on something ✗ congratulate (yourself) with someone for something
- conscience vs. consciousness
- consider: ✓ consider ✗ consider as
D (4)
- depend
- died: ✓ dead ✗ died
- difficult vs. difficulty – be difficult (for someone) to do something vs. have difficulty (in) doing something
- dot/full stop/point (comma) = punto
E (4)
- early vs. soon
- end: in the end vs. at the end (alla fine)
- especially vs. specially
- even: ✓ even ✗ also
F (5)
- factory vs. firm vs. farm vs. fabric
- fall (fell, fallen) vs. feel (felt, felt)
- fall: ✓ fall ✗ fall down
- few: ✓ the last/next few days/weeks/months/years/dollars etc. ✗ the last/next days/weeks/months/years/dollars
- finish: ✓ finish doing something ✗ finish to do something
G (2)
H (3)
I (2)
- important: ✓ the important thing is … ✗ *the important is* …
- in order not to: ✓ in order not to + INFINITIVE, so as not to + INFINITIVE ✗ not to + INFINITIVE
J (1)
K (1)
L (4)
- later: ✓ later ✗ after
- latest: ✓ the latest ✗ the last
- let: ✓ let someone do something ✗ make someone do something
- light: ✓ light ✗ switch/turn on
M (3)
- million: ✓ twenty million people ✗ twenty million(s) *of* people
- mistake: ✓ to make a mistake, to do something wrong, to get something wrong ✗ to *do* a mistake, to mistake, *to wrong* something
- mustn’t vs. do(es)n’t have to
N (2)
O (4)
P (6)
- Possessive adjectives/pronouns (1): ✗ the my, a your …
- practice/practise: ✓ practice/practise ✗ exercise
- Prepositions (1)
- Prepositions (2)
- Prepositions (3)
- prevent: ✓ prevent someone from doing something ✗ prevent someone to do something
Q (1)
R (6)
- real vs. true
- regret: ✓ regret doing something ✗ regret to have done something
- regret: ✓ regret doing something, regret to do something ✗ regret to have done something
- remind: ✓ remind ✗ remember
- right: ✓ be right ✗ have right, have reason
- risk: ✓ risk doing something ✗ risk to do something
S (7)
- same: ✓ the same (…) as ✗ the same (…) *of/like*
- see: ✓ see (visit) a friend ✗ find a friend
- shout: shout at someone vs. shout to someone ✗ shout someone
- so vs. then
- stay: ✓ stay ✗ rest
- strange: ✓ foreign ✗ strange
- suggest: ✓ suggest doing something, suggest (that) someone do something ✗ suggest to do something, suggest someone to do something
T (6)
- the … the (“parallel” comparative structures)
- think: ✓ he thinks he’s clever ✗ he thinks to be clever
- think: ✓ I don’t think (that) he’ll … ✗ I think (that) he won’t …
- this: ✓ this big/long/tall = grande/lungo/alto così ✗ big/long/tall so, big/long/tall like this
- try: try doing vs. try to do
- try: ✓ try ✗ prove
U (2)
V (4)
- VERB + GERUND &/or INFINITIVE (1)
- VERB + GERUND &/or INFINITIVE (2)
- very: ✓ very ✗ a lot
- vote: ✓ vote for someone ✗ vote someone
W (7)
- wait (for) vs. expect
- what: ✓ what ✗ which
- whether: ✓ whether ✗ if
- who’s vs. whose
- without: ✓ without + any/anyone/anything etc. ✗ *without + no/no one/nothing*
- worth: ✓ worth doing ✗ worth to do
- would: ✓ would do something ✗ would have done something