Summary of 3 Common Grammar Mistakes

Having gone through both writing assignment 1 and 2, I have noticed that the 3 most common grammar mistakes I made are verb tense, active/passive voice and spelling.

The first grammatical I have made during my writing assignment 1 and 2 is verb tense. I realize that my mistakes are mostly related to past tense and past perfect, I tend to use past tense for most of the situations and sometimes I use past tense when it is required or other tense should be used instead. For example, in my first writing assignment, there was one sentence which was “The first major test of CCS was actually taken place in 1996.” Clearly the “was” should not be used in this context.

The second major grammatical error I have made is active/passive voice. After reading through my 2 essays, I have found quite a few active/passive voice mistakes which I should have noticed during my writing. I always forget or rather ignore the active/passive voice. As a result, my sentence will always make people wonder due to lack of correct active/passive voice. For example, “many techniques and technologies that related to CCS have been proposed to conventional power plants such as fossil fuel.” In this sentence, “are” should be added before related.

The last most common mistake I made is spelling. Most of the time, I tend to type very fast. And I do not possess the habit of proofreading, consequently, there are always spelling mistakes in my essays. The most recent spelling mistake I have made was from my writing assignment 2, in which I wrote inter-gonmental instead of inter-governmental. Although Microsoft office word highlighted the mistake for me, I ignored it because I thought the word was ok.

These are just some of my most common mistakes, beside that, I still make other grammar mistake like articles and word form. In order to improve my writing skills, I have to try to prevent all those mistakes from happening again; after all, these elements are the foundation of writing good English.