My Common Grammar Mistakes

Name: Gonzalo Vidal        Date: Thursday 22nd, August, 2013           Grade: 8th ISE-1

Mistake Nº1: "I win the match"

Correction: "I won the match"

Grammar Rule: Simple past of "win"

Explanation of the grammar rule:

Simple Present                           Simple Past                     Past Participle

win                                               won                                 won

Extracted from http://www.englishpage.com/irregularverbs/irregularverbs.html

Examples:

1.- I went to the beach

2.- I walked all the way down

Links to practice this strucutre:

Excersise 1: http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs3.htm

Excersise 2: http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-exercise-simple-past.php

Mistake Nº2: "opurtunity"

Correction: "opportunity"

Grammar rule: Spelling and Vocabulary

Explanation of the grammar rule:

occured	occurred
occurence	occurrence
opurtunity	opportunity
opthamologist	ophthalmologist

Extracted from http://www.learnenglish.de/spelling/CommonSpellingMistakes.html

Examples:

1.- Yesterday occurred a confusing event at school.

2.- This cake is delicious!

Links to practice:

1.- http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/phonics/sandcastle/flash/game.shtml

2.- http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/languages/spelling.htm

Mistake Nº3: "A lot of player"

Correction: " A lot of players"

Grammar rule: Plural words

Explanation of the grammar rule:

singular	plural
a car	two cars
a cassette	two cassettes
a lamp	two lamps
a hat	two hats
a cup	two cups

Extracted from http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/grammar/plural.htm

Examples:

1.- Those three dogs are hungry.

2.- Those books are not mine.

Links to practice:

1.- http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=277

2.- http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=723