What can go wrong in your text?
Here we list common issues that writers struggle with when writing in English, and we link to other parts of AWELU where you will find more information.
Some examples and something on how to avid them - strategies
| Example | Explanation |
| The cat licked its paw. | In this sentence, its is a possessive pronoun explaining whose paw is referred to. |
It's my paw, said the cat, and it's sticky. | In this sentence, it's is a short form (contracted form) of the verb phrase it is. |
Read about possessive pronouns here.
Read about short forms (contracted forms) here. LINK NEEDED
there / their / they're
who's / whose
to / too / two
links to many/much etc on awelu
In English, the verb form has to agree with the subject of the sentence. This is something most writers of English know, but still it is easy to forget when the verb ends with an s, for instance.
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Know when to capitalise in English
Use a spell-check
Look up words
Apart from subject-verb agreement errors and errors regarding genitive forms, we here bring up some mistakes that writers with a Swedish-language background sometimes make when writing English: