Common mistakes in English

This is an excellent website to improve your English with lots of resources and tests. They explain the most common mistakes in grammar, different confusions in the listening area, also how to prevent them when you are speaking.

To list one of the lessons they provide, here is an useful example of the mistakes that most of the EAL students make most often:

-  Incorrect:  I give key to the watch every day.

Correct: I wind the watch every day.

-  Incorrect:  He has not answered to me.

Correct: He has not answered me.

-  Incorrect:  I asked a question to him.

Correct: I asked him a question.

You can actually avoid some of this errors by listen to normal conversations everyday.

-  Incorrect:  This is not the way to approach to the problem.

Correct: This is not the way to approach the problem.

-  Incorrect:  Let us go by walk.

Correct: Let us walk.

Correct: Let us go on foot.

-  Incorrect:  We went to Bangkok and enjoyed very much.

Correct: We went to Bangkok and enjoyed our stay very much.

Correct: We went to Bangkok and enjoyed ourselves very much.

To know more about this problems with your skills follow the next link:

http://www.englishpractice.com/topics/common-mistakes/