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Group 7
英三乙
英五甲
陳聿宣
許純鳳
高靖雅
林思萍
張景益
黃家瑋
Angel
Amy
Carol
Jennifer
Kevin
Michael
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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
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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
 He
book is good and useful.
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
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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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