A Guide To Learn English Language

When we are learn­ing Eng­lish lan­guage then it is com­mon that we make mis­takes. One of the most com­mon area in which we make mis­takes is in gram­mar usage. Along with gram­mar we do make mis­takes dur­ing sev­eral sit­u­a­tions. So let us see some of the rea­sons why we make such mis­takes and how to solve those mistakes.

Most of the mis­takes that we do in Eng­lish gram­mar occur due to the lack of clar­ity while using the sen­tences. Sen­tences may be very con­fus­ing because of this rea­son. We may use too many unnec­es­sary words or phrases and make the sen­tence look dis­agree­ment with the other parts of speech. So we have to con­struct some good sen­tences. Here are some tips for your sen­tence formation:

• One thought should be con­veyed in sin­gle sen­tence. Don’t try to put more thoughts in a sin­gle sen­tence which leads to the con­fu­sion in understanding.
• The more com­plex our ideas, the shorter and sim­pler our sen­tences should be.
• Check for the agree­ment between all the parts of a sen­tence which are log­i­cally related to each other.
• Check for the tense that we are using whether that sen­tence is con­vey­ing the time that you want to tell.
• Check the sen­tence again after the for­ma­tion so that we can find our­selves whether it is in good form or hav­ing any mistakes.
• Check for the sin­gu­lar and plural forms as we have dis­cussed in the ear­lier posts.
• Check for the punc­tu­a­tion and usage of cap­i­tal letters.

Check for the redundancy:

When we are form­ing sen­tences we use the repeated words which mean the same but are dif­fer­ent words. This is one of the com­mon gram­mar mis­takes that peo­ple often do.

E.g. My cousin sis­ter is com­ing today to my home.

In the above sen­tence, both the words cousin and sis­ter mean the same. So we have to avoid this kind of redundancies.

This redun­dancy also occurs when we use a long sen­tence in which it becomes dif­fi­cult to find out the redun­dancy.

Check for the sub­ject and verb agree­ment in the sentences.

When we are form­ing the sen­tences we should check for the sub­ject and verb agree­ment. We already came to know all the cases regard­ing this in our pre­vi­ous post on form­ing cor­rect sen­tences. So when we have a sin­gu­lar sub­ject then we have to use the sin­gu­lar verb and when are hav­ing a plural sub­ject then we have to use a plural verb.

E.g. She dis­likes all the works, mak­ing the work more delay.

In this sen­tence “she” is a sin­gu­lar sub­ject and “dis­likes” is a sin­gu­lar verb. So the sub­ject is in agree­ment with the sin­gu­lar verb.

Check for the proper par­al­lelism in the sentences:

When we are using more than one sen­tence then check for the par­al­lelism which means that the sec­ond sen­tence must match with tense as well as form with the first sentence.

E.g. We can reduce body weight by never take oily foods, doing exer­cises, or reduce eat­ing food.

In this sen­tence, the part of sen­tence “never take oily foods” is not in proper tense that is in agree­ment with the first part of the sen­tence “we can reduce the body weight”. So we have to remove this kind of mis­takes in our sen­tences when using some larger sentences.

The cor­rect sen­tence for the above sen­tence is:

We can reduce body weight by never tak­ing oily foods, doing exer­cises, or reduce eat­ing food.

Using wrong verb tense.

We need to use the proper tense accord­ing to the sit­u­a­tion and time. Wrong verb tense will lead to the utter gram­mar mistakes.

Let us con­tinue the same topic with the con­tin­u­ing post and learn more about the same.