Grammatical Errors

Question 1

Split infinities

Answer 1

*TO
To quickly eat- To eat quickly
To drink - To drink quickly

Question 2

Americanisation

Answer 2

Color - colour
Words with z - words with s

Question 3

Comma splice

Answer 3

Occurs when two (or more) sentences or clauses are joint by commas instead of conjunctions
Commas have too many functions

Question 4

Tautology and redundancy

Answer 4

• I, myself, feel personally that it’s not right —> I feel that it’s not right

Question 5

Dangling prepositions

Answer 5

Prepositions must introduce a phrase, noun, pronoun or a gerund

End of the sentence

• I created a playlist we can listen to —> we can listen to a playlist I created

Question 6

Malapropisms

Answer 6

The unintentional use of a word similar to the one the speaker wants to use

Causes humour

Question 7

Misrelated participles

Answer 7

• the waitress served Gilbert a plate of grey meatloaf (target noun) covered with lumpy gravy (participle phrase)

Do not separate with too much distance

Question 8

Words used incorrectly in context

Answer 8

“Between” or “Among”

Between: two people or things

Among: more than two people or things

“Less” or “fewer”

Less is used with things or materials that cannot be counted or separated I to individual parts (sunshine, orange juice, sand)

However you can count litres, hours, and brains of the substance

Fewer is used with discrete things that can be separated or counted (cd’s, sausages, cows, people)

“Number” or “Amount”

Number: individual, countable things

Amount: things that are not countable

“Each other” or “one another”

Each other: two people

One another: two or more people