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
men
foot
feet
woman
women
tooth
teeth
goose
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, ...