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Common mistakes at CAE

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  • The amount/ number/ quantity of people suffering from poverty is increasing
    number
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  • We'd like to invite you to our next event/activity, which will be held in May
    event ( social gathering for people to attend)
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  • My friend recommended me to buy/ recommended that I buy this car
    Recommended that ...
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  • Can you explain me the grammar/ Can you explain the grammar to me?
    Explain something to someone
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  • The ground is all wet. It should/ must have rained.
    must ( used to draw a conclusion about the past)
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  • Today I prefer/ would rather stay at home.
    would rather( used to talk about specific choices, while prefer is used to talk about general preferences)
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  • “I’ll see you in class on next/ next Saturday.”
    If we use next or last plus a day of the week, we do not use the preposition on.
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  • There are 21 millions/ million residents in the state of Florida.
    If we mention an exact number, we don’t add an ‘s’ after hundred, thousand, million, or billion.
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  • Thanks/ Thank/ Thank you God I don’t have to work tomorrow.
    Thank God is an expression we use to express gratitude to God or to communicate that we are happy about something.
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  • We always look forward to relax/ relaxing on the weekend.
    We always use the gerund form of the verb after a preposition. In the expression look forward to, the word to is a preposition and not part of an infinitive ver
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  • I would never choose to live in another country, but if I do/ did move to another country, it will/would be Spain.
    did;We use the first conditional to communicate that a condition is possible. We use the second conditional to communicate that something is impossible, unlikel
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  • I have much/ a lot of experience with children.
    we don’t normally use much with non-count nouns in positive statements. Instead, we use a lot of.
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  • We have a three-days/ day weekend coming up.
    A compound adjective is when two or more words join to modify the same noun. If a compound adjective has a noun, the noun should be singular.
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  • I’m used to wake up/ waking up early, so I have no problem getting here at 7 a.m
    We use to be used to + gerund/noun to talk about something that we are accustomed to. We often use the expression to talk about whether something is a problem.
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  • I made my son to clean up/ clean up his room.
    After the causative verbs let, make, and have, we use an object followed by the base form of the second verb. We do not use the infinitive form of the second ve
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  • I had to think about it for a while, but finally I could remember/ was able to remember the name of my first grade teacher.
    n positive sentences, we use was/were able to to talk about an ability on a single occasion, and we use could or was/were able to to talk about a general abilit
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