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Sixty Words or Phrases Commonly Misused by ESL/EFL Students Preparing for Universities
Sixty Words or Phrases Commonly Misused by ESL/EFL Students Preparing for Universities
Sixty Words or Phrases Commonly Misused by ESL/EFL Students Preparing for Universities
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This book is intended for classroom or individual study for students who need to clean up their grammar at the word level in preparation for university-level academic writing. It presents 60 words or phrases that are frequently problematic for advanced non-native students of English, exposing the errors, explaining them, and providing examples of correct usage. The most important points are summarized as tips, and students have the opportunity to write their own sentences with the expressions.

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Release dateJul 4, 2014
ISBN9781501408922
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    Sixty Words or Phrases Commonly Misused by ESL/EFL Students Preparing for Universities - Kenneth Cranker

    Sixty Words or Phrases Commonly Misused by ESL/EFL Students Preparing for Universities

    Copyright © 2014 by Wayzgoose Press

    All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the copyright owner. Dramatic works contained within this volume are intended only as reading material, and their inclusion does not imply the granting of performance licenses, which must be arranged through the author.

    Text by Kenneth Cranker.

    Edited by Dorothy E. Zemach. Cover design by DJ Rogers.

    Published in the United States by Wayzgoose Press.

    Sixty Words and Phrases

    Commonly Misused by

    ESL/EFL Students

    Preparing for Universities

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    Kenneth Cranker

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    WAYZGLOGO-WO-TAG

    Table of Contents

    To the Teacher

    To the Student

    1. According to

    2. Acknowledge

    3. Against

    4. Agree

    5. Almost/most

    6. Analyze/analysis

    7. Aspect

    8. At first/first

    9. Aware

    10. Back

    11. Based on

    12. Cause

    13. Character/characteristic

    14. Choose

    15. Compared/comparing

    16. Consider

    17. Consist of

    18. Contact

    19. Dead/died

    20. Decide

    21. Decline

    22. Discuss

    23. Due to

    24. Environment

    25. Even/even if/even though

    26. Health/healthy

    27. Image

    28. Impact

    29. Influence

    30. Instead of

    31. It is hard/easy

    32. Lead

    33. Lack

    34. Lose

    35. Need/require

    36. No matter

    37. Obese

    38. Occur

    39. One of the

    40. Oppose

    41. Pay attention to

    42. Percent/Percentage

    43. Present

    44. Proud

    45. Reason

    46. Relax

    47. Research

    48. Safe/safety

    49. Same/similar

    50. Search

    51. Stress

    52. Success

    53. The key to

    54. Through/throughout

    55. Trustworthy

    56. Use

    57. Whereas

    58. Whether

    59. While/during

    60. Worthy/worthwhile

    To the Teacher

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    The material in this book was not designed to be a course in and of itself; it was designed to supplement courseware that reviews sentence-level grammar primarily for students who may be conditionally admitted to English-speaking universities, but whose grammar is insufficiently developed to matriculate. It was necessitated by the fact that at high levels of proficiency, because of the vocabulary required, grammatical issues tend to be as much related to word usage as they are to sentence structure. The collection of words/phrases in this book is derived from countless observations of erroneous word-level usage in student writings.

    The number of phrases included in this work, sixty, is chosen for study at a rate of two per day over six weeks of classes. That rate allows it to adequately supplement but not dominate a course for general grammar review. It also prevents overload and enables students to digest and internalize the concepts and usage.

    Each page includes a word/phrase with its part(s) of speech indicated, some italicized examples of erroneous usage, some italicized examples of correct usage, a brief summary (in a nutshell) of the concepts involved, and a space for the creation of sentences using the featured expressions in specified ways. The erroneous usage is included for students to first identify whether they themselves make those sorts of errors, and then to analyze, discover what is wrong, and possibly discuss why it is incorrect (using language to describe the grammatical difficulty). This languaging can be extremely useful for internalizing grammatical concepts. Only after students have inductively reasoned through the erroneous usage should they examine the correct sentences and see how they exemplify proper usage. Then they should try to construct a summary themselves before checking the in a nutshell section.

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