Post 6 - Three common grammar mistakes

In this post, I will be discussing three common grammar mistakes that I have made.

First of all, subject-verb agreement is one of the common grammar mistakes that I have made. Subject-verb agreement refers to singular subject should be followed by singular verb and plural subject should be followed by plural verb. For example, she goes to the market and they go to the market. An example where I have made such a mistake would be in my writing assignment 2, where I wrote “but his/her parent forbids him/her from playing because of the scan show that he/she has no talent”. The correct version should be but his/her parent forbids him/her from playing because of the scan which shows that he/she has no talent.

The second common grammar mistake that I have made is verb tense. There are many types of verb tenses such as present tense, past tense, present continuous, past continuous, present perfect, past perfect and future tense. Present tense is used to express facts, habits and something that happened regularly whereas past tense is used for events that occurred in the past. Present continuous tense is for events happen in the present or are going on now. Past Continuous Tense is for events that were going on at a certain time in the past. Present Perfect Tense is for events happening in the past that affect the present. Past Perfect Tense is used for events that happened some time before another action was completed in the past. Future Tense is for events that are going to take place in the future. An example where I have made such a mistake would be in my midterm test, where there is a sentence “in Schelling’s course at Harvard, they have been discussing congestion models”. The correct version should be in Schelling’s course at Harvard, they had discussed congestion models.

Finally, the use of preposition is also one of the common grammar mistakes that I have made. An example where I have made such a mistake would be in my writing assignment 1, I will be discussing on people’s resistance to innovation adoption. The correct version should be I will be discussing for people’s resistance to innovation adoption.