中国学生写英语句子的13种常见错误类型
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一般英语写作考试,成功的关键在于句子是否写得正确。
本文归纳了中国学生写英语句子时的13种常见错误类型。
所有例句均来自学生的实际英语作文。
Mistake Type 1. Wrong tenses
[Improper] I had a look at my watch and I knew what will happen.
[Improved] I had a look at my watch and I knew what would happen.
[Improper] Riding bicycles had more advantages than taking a bus.
[Improved] Riding bicycles has more advantages than taking a bus.
Mistake Type 2 Agreement problems
[Improper] Every one of us have the right to be happy.
[Improved] Every one of us has the right to be happy.
[Improper]The eating habit of Chinese people have changed dramatically in the past decade. [Improved] The eating habit of Chinese people has changed dramatically in the past decade.
[Improper] There is so many countries using English that it had been regarded as an international language.
[Improved] There are so many countries using English that it had been regarded as an international language.
Mistake Type 3 Pronoun misuses
[Improper] If the humans want to live well, we must keep nature in balance.
[Improved] If the humans want to live well, they must keep nature in balance.
我经常告诉自己,离家的时候我不应该哭,因为那很不成熟。
[Improper] I always told myself that I shouldn’t cry when the time to leave was coming because it was not mature.
[Improved] I had always told myself that I wouldn’t cry when the time arrived for me to leave home, for that was a sign of my immaturity.
[Improper] So long as you have the Internet access and some necessary rights, anyone can receive education wherever you lives in.
[Improved] So long as you have the Internet access and some necessary licenses, you can receive education wherever you live in.
[Improper] Whether one enjoys or resents advertisements, we are actually bombarded with it every hour of the day.
[Improved] Whether one enjoys or resents advertisements, he is actually bombarded with them every hour of the day.
Mistake Type 4 Wrong use of comparative degree
[Improper] With the advancement of science and technology, I believe that people’s life will be more and more happier.
[Improved] With the advancement of science and technology, I believe that people’s li fe will become happier and happier.
[Improper] The world is getting more smaller and smaller.
[Improved] The world is getting smaller and smaller.
Mistake Type 5 Dangling modifiers
[Improper] In order to get a good mark, it took me much time, when I di dn’t have classes this weekdays, to get ready for this exam.
[Improved] In order to get a good mark, I spend much of my spare time getting ready for this exam.
[Improper] There are many ways to improve city traffic, for example widening the streets, building subways and so on.
[Improved] There are many ways to improve city traffic. For example, we can widen the streets, build subways and so on.
[Improper] My friends told me one of my old classmates had been killed in a sudden accident. Heard of that, I couldn’t think anything for a long time.
[Improved] My friend told me one of my old classmates had been killed in a sudden accident. Hearing of that, I couldn’t think of anything for a long time.
Mistake Type 6 Improper Subordinate Causes
[Improper] If someone wanted to go back to ancient society, which had no electricity, cloth and room, almost every people would say he was crazy.
[Improved] If anyone wants to go back to ancient times, in which there was no electricity, cloth or room, almost every people will say he is crazy.
[Improper] It is said that we’d better live in a small town instead of the big city if we want better health and longer life, and it is analyzed that the reason is the different life styles between the cities and towns which people have a relaxation life in town but a nervous life in city. (55 words) [Improved] It is said that we’d better live in a small town instead of the big city if we want a better health and a longer life. This is because, they say, the life style in the city is nervous while that in the town is relaxed. (46 words)
Mistake Type 7 Improper collocations
[Improper] When TV came into the world, the people’s life had a large changes.
[Improved] After TV came to the world, people’s life changed a great deal.
Or: The arrival of TV greatly changed people’s life.
但在另一方面,科学技术也能带来一些灾难。
[Improper] But in another aspect, some disaster were brought from the same science and technology.
[Improved] On the other hand, science and technology can also bring about some disasters.
相反,另外的人不同意这种观点。
他们喜欢不断变换工作。
[Improper] By con trast, other people don’t agree above pointview. They like change jobs from time to time.
[Improved] By contrast, other people don’t agree to that viewpoint. They like to change jobs from time to time.
每个人,不管年龄,每天都需要锻炼。
[Improper] Everyone, no matter what age, needs exercise every day.
[Improved] Everyone, regardless of his age, needs exercise every day.
[Improper] In a lonely cabin, there are several children with bad wearing.
[Improved] In a lonely cabin, there are several children in rags.
[Improper] She completed all courses in primitive school, in high school.
[Improved] She completed all the courses in primary and high school.
Mistake Type 8 Faulty structures
随着中国经济的发展,汽车在中国进入家庭将越来越普遍。
[Improper] With the Chinese economy developing, cars entering families in China is more and more usualness. (teachers’ training class)
[Improved] As China’s economy develops, there will be more and more cars entering families in China. Or: As China’s economy develops, it will become more and more common for cars to enter families in China.
It made me can not forget my grandmother…
[Improved] It made me unable to forget my grandmother…
总之,作为一名学者,大学教师将变得更加渊博,更加有实践经验,而不是浪费时间和精力。
[Improper] In a word, as a scholar, college teachers will become more wise and more practical instead of losing their time and energy.
[Improved] In a word, working as a scholar, a college teacher will become wiser and more experienced in practice. By no means is it a waste of time and energy.
中国快速发展,为人们提供了许多工作机会,有些人同时有几份工作,因此他们必须提高工作效率,包括交通效率。
[improper] China develops very fast which could supply so many chances of jobs for people that a few of people have several jobs at the same time, and they must improve their efficiency including walking in the road.
[improved] As China develops rapidly, so many new job opportunities are opened up that some people can take several jobs at the same time, which makes it necessary for them to minimize their travel hours.
Mistake Type 9 Unnecessary repetition
[Improper] One reason is that the people may have more money than ever before, which makes it possible for them to buy cars for their families. Another is the development of automobile industry brings down the price of cars, which makes it possible for them to buy cars. [Improved] One reason is that the people have more money than ever before, which makes it possible for them to by private cars. Another reason is the development of automobile industry brings down the price of cars, thus paving their way into the households in China.
Mistake Type 10 Unparalleled structures
无论你做出什么选择,最终目标应该是为了更好地工作和进一步发展。
[Improper] No matter what choice you made, the final goal should be to do better work and further development.
[Improved] No matter what choice you make, the final goal should be for a better work and further development.
Mistake 11 Confused mood
总之,如果没有电视,我们就可能失去一些能给我们带来幸福的东西。
[Improper] In a word, if we have no TV, we may lose something which bring us happy.
[Improved] In a word, if we had no TV, we might lose something which brings us happiness.
[Improper] (Some people hold that science and technology is an unimportant thing or even a bad thing.) Firstly, with science and technology, human beings can explore any resources in our universe and take use of them with a very high speed beyond our imagination…
[Improved] Firstly, with science and technology, human beings can exploit any resources in our universe and consume them at an unimaginable speed.
Mistake 12 Incomplete Sentences
[Improper] Will, like a light tower in the sea, which can conduct us to advance on a right track. [Improved] Will, like a light tower in the sea, can conduct us to advance on a right track.
他们反对经常跳槽,因为频繁跳槽将导致一事无成。
[Improper] they object to changing job frequently. Because frequent job-hopping will result to nothing can done.
[Improved] They object to changing jobs frequently, because that might result in their getting nowhere at all (or: because that might lead to failure in every job they do.).
然而科学技术是把双刃剑,如果使用不当将给人类带来毁灭性的灾难。
[Improper] But the science and technology also is a two-edge sword, if uses unsuitably will bring the suffering of destruction to people.
[Improved] But science and technology is also a double-edged sword, which might be destructive to human being if used improperly.
[Improper] The most funny thing is that there were five of my classmates were born in November, 1983.
[Improved] The most funny thing is that there were five of my classmates who were born in November, 1983.
Many experts anticipated that in the next coming years, there will be more and more Chinese families make / making private cars as their major transportation vehicle.
Mistake 13 Run-on sentences
[Improper] A chairman was having lunch, a soldier stood by him.
[Improved] A chairman was having lunch, a soldier standing by him.
[Improper] I was born in a small town, in the town there was only one school, I studied there for six years.
[Improved] I was born in a small town. In it there was only one school. I studied there for six years. Or:
I studied for six years at the only school in the small town where I was born.
[Improper] In former times, elephants hadn’t long noses. They only had a black nose which was like shoe. Then, a little elephant was born, he was curious, he always asked others: “ why?”[Improved] In former times, elephants did not have long noses. They only had black noses like shoes. Then, a little elephant was born who was curious and always asked others “why”.
随着中国进入WTO,汽车的成本这些年正在下降,许多家庭能够购买和使用私人汽车了。
[Improper] As China entered WTO, the cost of a car is decreasing in these years, many families could buy and use a family car.
[Improved] As China has become a member of WTO, the cost of a car is keeping lowering down in recent years so that many families could afford a private car.。