ERRORES COMUNES EN LAS REDACCIONES

* = incorrecto

1. Concordancia: Singular/Plural.; *people is (people are)/ *this people(these people);

*too much marriages(too many marriages); *others causes(other causes); *it are going

to; *women is; *this places / *these place / *that rivers, *every days (everyday),

*much people thinks (many people think).

2. Formas verbales: *you will married; *they thinked; *Im worry (Im worried);

*jumping isnt been; *he dont *he writed; *they dont be.

3. Plurales: *womens(women) / *childrens (children)/ *man (men) / *bodys (bodies);

*lifes (lives).

4. Sujeto y verbo estn desordenados (el orden de las oraciones en ingls es

SUJ+VERBO+OBJETO), o el sujeto no aparece: *many think is dangerous (many

people,many students...think is dangerous); *are right (they are right); *is important( It

is important). No olvidarse nunca del sujeto.

5. Adjetivos: adjetivos en plural (*differents families; *certains prototypes; *biologicals

feelings) o situados despus del nombre (*a country very important/ a very important

country); los adjetivos siempre van delante del sustantivo.

6. Verbos modales: *must can; *must to; *will keeping; *they will can to go; *he can

has; *it will must be perfect; *I am will waiting; *to can. Despus de modales el verbo

en infinitivo sin to.

7. Interrogatives: *You went? *You can fly? *Who they are? *Was there the plane?

*How do you are? Orden de las preguntas= pronombre interrogative+auxiliary

(do,does, did, wil, can, have etc..)+ sujeto+ verbo (en infinitivo sin to).

Cuidado con los verbos irregulares, las s/-es de 3 persona, los fallos de spelling :

Spelling of 3rd person singular (he, she, it)

General rule: infinitive without 'to' + S

to work ==> works

to play ==> plays

Verbs ending in O, SS, X, CH, SH : infinitive without 'to' + ES

to go ==> goes

to kiss ==> kisses

Verbs ending in Y, preceded by a consonant: Y changes into IES

to cry ==> cries

to fly ==> flies

Spelling of the ing-form (present participle)

General rule: infinitive without 'to' + ING

to work --> working

to play --> playing

Verbs ending in a silent E: the E is dropped +ING

to live --> living

to come --> coming

Verbs ending in IE: the IE changes into Y +ING

to die --> dying

to lie --> lying

Verbs with the stress on the last syllable, ending in a consonant,

preceded by a short vowel: the end consonant is doubled + ING

to stop --> stopping

to begin --> beginning

Verbs ending in L: the L is doubled +ING

to travel --> travelling

to quarrel --> quarrelling

Verbs ending in IC: the C is followed by K +ING

to picnic --> picnicking

to panic --> panicking

Plurals

Regular

General rule: singular + S:

girl - girls

boy - boys

Nouns ending in -S, -SS, -SH, -CH, -X get -ES:

box - boxes

bus - buses

Some nouns ending in -O behind a consonant get -ES:

potato - potatoes

tomato - tomatoes

Nouns ending in -Y behind a consonant change -Y into -IES:

lady - ladies

baby - babies

Some nouns ending in -F or -FE change -F(E) into -VES:

knife - knives

wife - wives

2. Irregular: learn them by heart!

man

foot

woman

tooth

goose

men

feet

women

teeth

geese

mouse

louse

child

penny

mice

lice

children

pence

3. Always singular, always plural

Some nouns are always plural:

clothes, jeans, trousers, shorts, people,

police, glasses, scissors, mathematics

Some nouns (abstract, materials, kinds of food) are always singular:

bread, tea, cheese, jam, soup, soap, snow, cotton,

wood, water, information, advice, knowledge, furniture

Some nouns have the same form for singular and plural:

Names of kind of fish: cod, herring, salmon, trout, ...

Names of some animals: deer, sheep, swine, ...