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FCE Common Mistakes

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Correct the mistake: Top tennis players are not smoking

DO NOT / DON'T SMOKE - present simple is used for things that are general

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Correct the mistake: I live on the Belmont Road

Do not use 'the' with street names

15

Correct the mistake:The team didn't play as good as I expected

WELL - good is an adjective, you need an adverb

15

Correct the mistake: The news are so depressing at the moment

NEWS is singular

15

Correct the mistake:Is he coming to? I hope not

too

15

Correct the mistake: I can't afford a holiday, I don't have money enough

Word order - enough comes after an adjective but before a noun

15

Correct the mistake: Go Cromwell street towards

Prepositions come before ' go towards...

15

Correct the mistake:We had a so good time

such a + adjectived followed by noun - such a good time

15

Correct the mistake:In my country we start the school at six

don't use ´the´when talking in general

15

Correct the mistake: They have four sisters which are very nice

WHO - who for people, which for things

15

Correct the mistake: I have been living in Spain since four years

Since with a point in time but FOR with a period of time

15

Correct the mistake: I am living here since I was ten

Use present perfect (continuous)

15

Correct the mistake: She was borned in 1991

she was BORN in 1991

15

Correct the mistake: I try my best not to do mistakes

MAKE mistakes

15

Correct the mistake:We have had such a terrible weather

weather is uncountable

15

Correct the mistake:She went always to work by bus

word order - she always went...

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