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1400 Sample of Mistakes

Collected from essays by adult Chinese students studying at English universities

 

a (am)

aboundant

accomaditing

accomodate

achivement

acient

acompany

acquainte (acquaint)

activies

advertisment

Aericans

affraid

againest

allmost

althouth

alway

amicabole

Amiricans

ansister

apperance

aquir

archealogy

architeture

ard (hard)

areospace

arraging

arraning (arranging)

assissting

ave (have)

avialable

becaus

behavor

belived

bith-rate

boardcasting

boyes

bridbroom

brining (bringing)

bussiness

bussiness

bussinessman

cafetaria

calld

ceremoney

chane (chance)

charater

chidren

chidren

chioce

colledge

coloful

comment (common (sense)

communicat

competion

concieved

coner (corner)

congration

congratulale

controdictory

controled

controling (controlling)

contury (country)

cosexseual

counties (countries)

coursing (causing)

couse (course)

crimial x 3

cuture (culture)

decate (decayed)

demoractic

differene

discoveried

disicion (decision)

endiveduoly

envadors

essencial

everyoe (everyone)

everythig

exellent

exited (existed)

exsists

favore

finaly

fisical (physical)

foundamental

frougile

futur

grammartical

guidiance

guranteed

hae (have)

hamberger

happend

hat (had)

hight (high)

hve

imigrants

implys

independant

Indiferent

influencial

Injoid

Insaid

interssted

intimate (imitate)

Jeny's

jewelry

Jhon

joks

kenturkey fried chicken

kising

knee (kneel)

lauched (launched)

life (live adj)

lik (like)

litle

mane (man)

marvolous

massage

mathches (matches)

mavelous

meetting

menthal (mental)

mordenizations

moring (morning)

morried x2 (married)

nead (need?)

neclear

nerses

Net West Bank

non-lexcial

nusiance

ocian

orthogrhapic

overwhemled

paiying

paste tenes

payed

peopl X2

personaly

perticipate

plase

polieman

porperous (prosperous)

porpular

poupular

pratical

precias

presen

prgram

probleme

probles

professinal

pronunce

recive

reliezed

relly

rember

responisble

romamization

satifacation

sayd

scences (senses)

schaol (school)

scoule

secoundry

serrealism

Sers (Sirs)

shooling

shopps

shourt (shot)

sice

Sich

snorring

soe

spetial (special)

sqush (squash)

stastics

stonachache

studing

studyed

subjikts

suddely

suitacase

teachg

technoogy

tecnology

tel (tell)

temperatue

theese

thend (tend)

therthday

though (thought)

thoughfulness

tinnis

toilett

trough (through)

tryed

twety

universitty

unpriviledged

unsfortunately

urob

vergot

volience

wenderfull

whih

whish

whishes

wich (which)

wold

writen

writting

yau (you)

yo (you)