Tuesday, 10 April 2012

Words Used in the Wrong Class

Typical Mistakes
a.Many people prefer to buy Malaysia products.
b.That man is dangerously driver.
c.Together we can admire the beautiful of the countryside.

In each of the sentences above, the word in italics is wrong.The corrected sentences are below

Corrected sentences
a.Many people prefer to buy Malaysian products.
b.Thah man is a dangerous driver.
c.Together we can admire the beauty of the countryside.

Many English words have different forms according to their function in a sentence.The word dangerously, for example is an adverb:its describes in what way an action is performed.In sentence b above, it is wrongly used to describe a person instead of an action. To describe the word 'driver' in this sentence, the adjective form dangerous must be used.

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