10 Advanced Grammar Rules that Confuse Most English Learners

Students, who are learning to speak English, whether beginners, intermediates or more advanced, can make mistakes with English grammar.  These mistakes can easily be repeated many times and are very common in students that are learning English.  Once students learn how to correct these mistakes, they are well on the way to improving their English.  Here are my 10 advanced grammar rules, which confuse most English learners:

Choosing the correct tense

Incorrect:        I have been in London last spring.
Correct:            I was in London last spring.
This refers to a specific event and time (last spring) so the past simple tense should be used and not the present simple (have been).

Homophones

Homophones are words that sound the same when pronounced but are spelt differently and have different meanings:

There                 Over there you will find the paper you are looking for.
They’re             They are going to the party later today.
Their                  Their parents are away on holiday.

Which                Which is the way to the station?
Witch                 a wicked witch is in the children’s story they are reading in class today.

Wait                   She just missed the train so she will have to wait for 20 minutes for the next train to London.
Weight              The weight of the punnet of strawberries is 2 kilos.


Weak                 She is weak after running the marathon.
Week                 There are seven days in a week.

Rain                   it is forecast to rain tomorrow.
Reign                 the queen will reign for many years.

Check                Please check the price of the potatoes.
Cheque             I will write you a Cheque for the items i am buying.

To                       we are going to the party tonight.
Two                    Neha and Mohit have two children.
Too                     They are going to the party too (in this case too means as well)

Here                   Here are the books you wanted.
Hear                   can you hear the sound of rain on the window?

See                      can you see the deer running across the field?
Sea                      the sea is very rough today.  No one is swimming.

There are many homophones, which are confusing but have to be learnt.

Plural of nouns

Incorrect:        my brother has three childrens.
Correct:            my brother has three children.
Changing singular forms to plural forms can be difficult to learn.  Here are some more examples:

1 man                2 men
1 woman           2 women
1 child               2 children
1 witch              2 witches
1 goose             2 geese
1 mouse            2 mice

As you can see from these examples sometimes the letter(s) change(s) and sometimes an ‘e’ is added as well the letter ‘s’.  Learning the correct spellings will help but these plurals do need to be learnt.
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