Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Top 50 Vocabulary Mistakes: How to Avoid Them
    Top 50 Vocabulary Mistakes: How to Avoid Them
    Top 50 Vocabulary Mistakes: How to Avoid Them
    Ebook372 pages1 hour

    Top 50 Vocabulary Mistakes: How to Avoid Them

    By Adrian Wallwork

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Whatever your mother tongue, you are likely to have encountered difficulties with most of the 50 vocabulary items in this book.

    Each chapter contains:

    • Examples of typical mistakes.
    • Examples of correct usage.
    • Rules / explanations.
    • A short exercise where you can immediately practise what you have learned.
    • Additional exercises (including false friends)

    By completing the exercises in this book, you should be able to eliminate some of the most common vocabulary mistakes that non-native speakers of English tend to make.

    Easy English! is a series of books to help you learn and revise your English with minimal effort. You can improve your English by

    • reading texts in English that you might well normally read in your own language e.g. jokes, personality tests, lateral thinking games, wordsearches.
    • doing short exercises to improve specificareas grammar and vocabulary, i.e. the areas that tend to lead to the most mistakes - the aim is just to focus on what you really need rather than overwhelming yourself with a mass of rules, many of which may have no practical daily value

    Other books in the Easy English!series include:

         Wordsearches: Widen Your Vocabulary in English

         Test Your Personality: Have Fun and Learn Useful Phrases

         Word games, Riddles and Logic Tests: Tax Your Brain and Boost Your English

         Top 50 Grammar Mistakes: How to Avoid Them

         Top 50 Vocabulary Mistakes: How to Avoid Them

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSpringer
    Release dateJan 28, 2018
    ISBN9783319709819
    Top 50 Vocabulary Mistakes: How to Avoid Them

    Read more from Adrian Wallwork

    Related to Top 50 Vocabulary Mistakes

    Related ebooks

    Language Arts & Discipline For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Cryptic Classroom #5: Homophones

      Dec 9, 2021

      Cryptic Classroom #5: Homophones
      3 min read

    • Article

      Editing For Grammar

      Mar 20, 2019

      Although most writers and editors have received extensive training in written English, we still make mistakes—all the time. The Careful Writer, Words into Type, The Elements of Style and other sources offer voluminous instruction and examples for wr

      9 min read

    • Article

      COMMA Chameleon

      Sep 1, 2022

      COMMA Chameleon
      5 min read

    • Article

      This Simple Structure Unites All Human Languages

      Sep 19, 2019

      Take a deep breath. As you breathe in, your lungs fill with air. The air is carried through every part of your lungs by tubes. These tubes are organized in a particular way. They branch off, one into the left lung, one into the right. The tubes fill

      9 min read

    • Article

      STYLE: Dig Out Your Prose

      Apr 4, 2024

      STYLE: Dig Out Your Prose
      5 min read

    • Article

      Talking Is Throwing Fictional Worlds at One Another

      Sep 19, 2019

      A few years ago, David Adger was in his office at Queen Mary University of London, where he is a professor of linguistics, when the phone rang. It was a British TV company that wanted him to invent a language for monsters with no lips, just big teeth

      10 min read

    • Article

      Talking Is Throwing Fictional Worlds at One Another

      Sep 9, 2020

      A few years ago, David Adger was in his office at Queen Mary University of London, where he is a professor of linguistics, when the phone rang. It was a British TV company that wanted him to invent a language for monsters with no lips, just big teeth

      10 min read

    • Article

      The Secret Life of 'Um'

      Dec 10, 2017

      When one person asks another a question, it takes an average of 200 milliseconds for them to respond. This is so fast that we can’t even hear the pause. In fact, it’s faster than our brains actually work. It takes the brain about half a second to ret

      8 min read

    • Article

      How to, Like, Speak Better

      May 2, 2023

      How to, Like, Speak Better
      8 min read

    • Article

      The Rise and Fall of the English Sentence

      Nov 16, 2017

      An iconic sentence, this. But how did it ever make its way into the world? At 71 words, it is composed of eight separate clauses, each anchored by its own verb, nested within one another in various arrangements. The main clause (a decent respect to t

      13 min read

    • Article

      Spelling That’s Right for Moi

      Sep 11, 2018

      Spelling That’s Right for Moi
      2 min read

    • Article

      The Tyranny of the Verb To Be

      Jun 13, 2022

      The Tyranny of the Verb To Be
      9 min read

    • Article

      How To Learn A New Language

      Feb 6, 2022

      How To Learn A New Language
      2 min read

    • Article

      2B Or Not 2B

      Apr 5, 2019

      2B Or Not 2B
      3 min read

    • Article

      Is the Chinese Language a Superstition Machine?: How ambiguity in language can create unique taboos.

      Jan 5, 2017

      Every year, more than a billion people around the world celebrate Chinese New Year and engage in a subtle linguistic dance with luck. You can think of it as a set of holiday rituals that resemble a courtship. To lure good fortune into their lives, th

      9 min read

    • Article

      Is the Chinese Language a Superstition Machine?

      Apr 12, 2018

      Every year, more than a billion people around the world celebrate Chinese New Year and engage in a subtle linguistic dance with luck. You can think of it as a set of holiday rituals that resemble a courtship. To lure good fortune into their lives, th

      9 min read

    • Article

      The Science Of Swearing

      Dec 12, 2023

      The Science Of Swearing
      5 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Top 50 Vocabulary Mistakes

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Top 50 Vocabulary Mistakes - Adrian Wallwork

      Part ITop 50 Vocabulary Mistakes

      © Springer International Publishing AG 2018

      Adrian WallworkTop 50 Vocabulary MistakesEasy English!https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70981-9_1

      1. According to

      Adrian Wallwork¹ 

      (1)

      English for Academics SAS, Pisa, Italy

      According to me, this will never work.

      In my opinion / I think this will never work.

      According to his opinion, it was my fault.

      In his opinion / view … He thinks / believes / reckons that it was …

      You must according to the doctor’s advice.

      You must follow the doctor’s advice.

      According to the accident, she arrived late for the party.

      As a result of / Owing to / Because of …

      According to all these reasons, we decided to abandon the project.

      For all these reasons, we …

      According to my husband, they are building a new supermarket here.

      According to Einstein, time is an illusion.

      The meeting all went according to schedule.

      According to the table set out in Annex IV of the proposal.

      As a result of / Owing to / Because of her illness she had to stop work.

      Guidelines

      according to a person but not me

      according to a source (document, report, institute, figure)

      as a result of / owing to / because of - as a consequence of

      for a reason - gives an explanation for something

      Some sentences are correct others are not: Correct the incorrect sentences

      1.

      Proposals are sorted according to their price, quantity and time priority.

      2.

      They were used according to the manufacturer’s operating manual.

      3.

      According to me they should all leave now.

      4.

      She was forced to give up her job according to her poor health.

      5.

      You should according to your teacher’s wishes.

      6.

      According to the power cut, the school had to be closed.

      7.

      According to our estimates about 30,000 people will be coming to the

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1