Common Errors in English Language and their corrections

This is a thread to share the corrections of most common errors in English.

There are most english grammars we speak thinking it is the correct ways of presenting them. But nah it isn't and will never be.

Point out the errors in English grammar which most of us speak and their correction.

Please. Never spoil my thread or derail it. No pigin or broken. Pure english written needed.

Look at this Grammer.

Incorrect: He did not study hard and so therefore, he failed the examination.

Correct: He did not study hard and so, he failed the examination.


Correct: He did not study hard and therefore, he failed the examination.


The above grammar is tutological. Hope you learnt

Nice Thread Marks. :salute:

Incorrect: The baker daily supplies us bread

Correct: The baker daily supplies us with bread.

Supply when used as a verb often goes with a preposition. The same thing goes to 'provide', 'adorn', 'shower', 'horrify', 'abide', etc.

Abi, I hope you learnt.

Incorrect: The bachelor man approached me for advice on marriage.

Correct: The bachelor approached me for advice on marriage.

Please a bachelor is normally a man without wives.

Incorrect: I don't know if this story is a fact or a fiction.

Correct: I don't know if this story is fact or fiction.

Fact and Fiction as used in the above sentences are uncountable nouns and cannot take the indefinite article, 'a'.