Common mistakes in English | 7

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
#301	make	making
#302	update	updated
#303	day	days
#304	who	that
#305	maybe	may be
#306	meet	met
#307	and	in
#308	come	came
#309	and it	It
#310	with	and
#311	there	they
#312	them	it
#313	advice	advise
#314	got	received
#315	test	tests
#316	ill	I'll
#317	try	tried
#318	provide	provides
#319	the	her
#320	details	detail
#321	experience	experiences
#322	Thank	Thanks
#323	instruction	instructions
#324	you	you've
#325	of	have
#326	we	we've
#327	point	points
#328	pm	p m
#329	10	ten
#330	and	that
#331	area	areas
#332	year	years
#333	one	ones
#334	its	it’s
#335	and or	and/or
#336	these	the
#337	in	on the
#338	is	if
#339	change	changes
#340	as	because
#341	working	work
#342	show	shows
#343	since	because
#344	wont	won't
#345	whom	who
#346	decision	decisions
#347	reason	reasons
#348	to	from
#349	which	who
#350	it	there

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