Common mistakes in English | 11

Over the last few years, we have corrected millions of words in the texts we have processed. Here, we present a list of common mistakes that we have found. The list is sorted according to the frequency with which we corrected the phrase. Not all corrections are present due to privacy concerns.

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Position	Before	After
#501	compare	compared
#502	team	teams
#503	finish	finished
#504	part time	part-time
#505	some	a
#506	email	emails
#507	use	uses
#508	got	was
#509	by	from
#510	Is	It is
#511	did	do
#512	info	information
#513	got	get
#514	children	children's
#515	didnt	didn't
#516	account	accounts
#517	day to day	day-to-day
#518	report	reports
#519	idea	ideas
#520	years	year
#521	Morning	Good morning
#522	helps	help
#523	week	weeks
#524	min	minutes
#525	it	its
#526	don't	doesn't
#527	of	that
#528	Pleas	Please
#529	So	Therefore
#530	is	it
#531	First	The first
#532	teacher	teachers
#533	that	to
#534	looking	look
#535	I	and
#536	condition	conditions
#537	i	that I
#538	he’s	his
#539	year	year's
#540	wants	want
#541	though	through
#542	are	do
#543	and also	Also
#544	9	nine
#545	that	those
#546	the	any
#547	you	they
#548	it	I
#549	30pm	30 pm
#550	and please	Please

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