Common Mistakes

Common English mistakes, explained clearly.

Understand frequent mistakes, why they happen and the natural English to use instead.

Common Mistake

A2B1

In Time vs On Time: Early Enough or Exactly as Scheduled?

Learn the difference between arriving early enough to avoid a problem and arriving at the scheduled time.

Common Mistake

A1A2

Use one direction rule to choose borrow and lend correctly.

Common Mistake

A1A2

Learn why we say a job, some work and I work—and avoid a common workplace-English mistake.

Common Mistake

A2B1

Stop translating do and make as the same verb and learn the high-frequency combinations English speakers actually use.

Common Mistake

A2B1

Separate a starting point, a duration and a finished time in the past with three simple patterns.

Common Mistake

A1A2

Understand countable and uncountable nouns and choose the quantity expression English speakers naturally use.

Common Mistake

A2B1

Learn the natural patterns that separate four common English verbs of communication.