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10 Golden Rules For Error Spotting

1) The document provides 10 golden rules for error spotting in grammar. 2) The rules cover correct usage of verbs like love and hate, tenses including present perfect, subject-verb agreement, know followed by infinitives, matching tense between main and subordinate clauses, gerunds after prepositions, modal auxiliaries, quantity words, and comparatives. 3) The rules give examples of common errors and their correct forms.

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10 Golden Rules For Error Spotting

1) The document provides 10 golden rules for error spotting in grammar. 2) The rules cover correct usage of verbs like love and hate, tenses including present perfect, subject-verb agreement, know followed by infinitives, matching tense between main and subordinate clauses, gerunds after prepositions, modal auxiliaries, quantity words, and comparatives. 3) The rules give examples of common errors and their correct forms.

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10 Golden rules for

Error spotting
Rule No: 01
• Like, love, hate, need, prefer, want, know, realise, suppose, mean,
understand, believe, remember, belong, contain, consist, seem , agree,
deny, disagree, mean, promise, imagine
• We don’t use these in present continuous, we just use present simple for
these verbs.
• I am loving you or I love you.
• I am hating you or I hate you.
Rule no:02
• I have completed my task 2 minutes ago. (wrong)
• I completed my task two minutes ago. (right)
• Exact time is being mentioned in past tense not in the present perfect tense
while as we use ( already , so far, just now, lately, all my life) etc.. With
present perfect tense to show the time
Rule no:03
• If the Singular Subjects are preceded by each or every, the Verb is
usually Singular.
• For example,
• Incorrect- Every boy and girl were ready.
• Correct- Every boy and girl was ready
Rule no:04
• Know is followed by how/ where/when/why and Infinitive.
• For example,
• Incorrect- I know to write a letter.
• Correct- I know how to write a letter
Rule no:05
• A Past Tense in the main clause should be followed by a Past Tense in
the subordinate clause.

• Incorrect- He succeeded because he works hard.


• Correct- He succeeded because he worked hard.
Rule No: 06
• A Past Tense in main clause may be followed by a Present Tense in the
subordinate clause when the subordinate clause expresses a universal
truth.

• Incorrect- Our teacher said that the earth moved round the sun.
• Correct- Our teacher said that the earth moves round the sun.
Rule no: 07
• A Verb when preceded by a Preposition must be the Gerund.
•
• Incorrect- They were punished for come late.
• Correct- They were punished for, coming late.

• I manage it by working much longer than 40-hour weeks


Rule no: 08
• Modal Auxiliaries are not used together. But two Auxiliaries can be
connected by a Conjunction.

• For example,
• Incorrect-He should must do it.
• Correct- He should and must do it.
Rule no: 09
• To express quantity or degree some is used in affirmative sentences,
any in negative or interrogative sentences.
• For example,.
• Incorrect- Have you bought some mangoes?
• Correct- Have you bought any mangoes?
Rule no: 10
• When two qualities of the same person or thing are compared, the
Comparative in-er is not used. 'More' is used for this purpose.
•
• Incorrect- He is wiser than brave.
• Correct- He is more wise than brave

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