Group 7 英三乙 陳聿宣 Angel 許純鳳 Amy 高靖雅 Carol 林思萍 Jennifer 張景益 Kevin 英五甲 黃家瑋 Michael

Noun Errors 1.I am grateful for your advice.( O ) I am grateful for your advices.( × ) 2.I have important information to tell you. ( O ) I have important informations to tell you.( × )

Examples 1. My mother has bought a piece of jewelry. ( O ) My mother has bought a jewelry. ( × ) 2.Before we moved into the new house, we bought many furnitures.( × ) Before we moved into the new house, we had bought many pieces of furniture. ( O )

Examples 1.The farmer has many gooses on his farm. ( × ) The farmer has many geese on his farm. ( O ) 2. You must brush your tooths before going to bed. ( × ) You must brush your teeth before going to bed. ( O )

Tense Errors  Some of students don’t understand verbs change. They also don’t know how to make the right variation in verbs. But we can see there are some kinds of changes in it, such as the tense we should know how to use the regular or irregular verbs. But for the beginners, they will use one rule in any kinds of situations. But actually the verbs have many kinds of changes.

Example 1.  He rided bicycle to school yesterday. (x) He rode bicycle to school yesterday. (○) Note: We can see this is past simple. The subject “He” did this action “ride bicycle” yesterday, so we should use the past simple and ride is not regular verb, so we should write “ rode bicycle.” Verb Form: ride → rode → ridden

Example 2.  Mary weared a blue skirt yesterday. (x) Mary wore a blue skirt yesterday. (○) Note : The tense “yesterday” is past simple, so we should change the tense of verb. But “wear” is the irregular verb, we cannot directly add “ed” after it. Verb Form : wear → wore → worn

Parallelism When a sentence is parallel, words are balanced with words, phrases with phrases, clauses with clauses, infinitives with infinitives, gerunds with gerunds.

Examples  She is beautiful and kind. ( words)  I have an old book, a new bag and a cute watch. (phrases)  Mary went home because she wanted to save money, she missed her family and she disliked her roommates. ( clauses)  My brother likes swimming and fishing. (gerunds)  My sister loves to sing and to study. (infinitives)

Find faults  This book is good and usefulness.  He likes hot milk and water that is cold.  John loves playing baseball, watching TV and to study literature.

Correct answers  This book is good and useful.  He likes hot milk and cold water.  John loves playing baseball, watching TV and studying literature.

Agreement of Pronoun And Antecedent Certain Singular Antecedents Use singular pronouns to refer to singular antecedents. The indefinite pronouns are singular, and pronouns referring to them should be singular. The indefinite pronouns: each, either, anyone, anybody, everyone, everybody, someone, no one, nobody.

Example 1  Each boy has their own book. (×)  Each boy has his own book. (○) “Each” is one of the indefinite pronouns. Therefore, in the sentence, we can’t use plural pronoun ”their.” We have to use singular one “his ”.

Example 2  Does everyone have their pencil? (×)  Does everyone have his or her pencil? (○) “Everyone” is one of the indefinite pronouns. Therefore, in the sentence, we can’t use plural pronoun ”their.” We have to use singular one “his or her ”.

Agreement of Pronoun And Antecedent Collective Nouns as Antecedents  Collective nouns: some nouns are singular in form but plural in meaning, such as team, class, crowd, crew.  With collective nouns either a singular or a plural pronoun according to the meaning of the sentence.  If you think of the group as a unit, use a singular verb  If you think of the individual members of the group, use a plural verb

Example 1  The class has elected Mary as their leader. (×)  The class has elected Mary as its leader. (○) In the sentence, “the class” is as a unit. Therefore, we have to use singular possessive pronoun ”its”.

Example 2  The group quickly took its positions on the field. (×)  The group quickly took their positions on the field. (○) Each member of the group is acting individually. Therefore, we use plural possessive pronoun ”their”.

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