Common mistakes in English | 9

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
#401	number	numbers
#402	his	their
#403	is	will be
#404	way	ways
#405	mean	means
#406	anytime	any time
#407	that	when
#408	its	it
#409	in	by
#410	look	looked
#411	plan	plans
#412	include	includes
#413	resource	resources
#414	sometime	sometimes
#415	because	as
#416	we	we're
#417	was	had been
#418	by	in
#419	as	and
#420	open	opened
#421	1st	first
#422	find	found
#423	interest	interests
#424	stop	stopped
#425	requirement	requirements
#426	came	come
#427	and this	This
#428	friend	friends
#429	double check	double-check
#430	is	as
#431	there’s	there are
#432	share	shared
#433	and he	He
#434	he’s	his
#435	Thanks	Thank
#436	close	closed
#437	about	on
#438	00pm	00 pm
#439	off	of
#440	and	then
#441	build	built
#442	am looking	look
#443	organization	organizations
#444	have been	were
#445	situation	situations
#446	those	these
#447	how	what
#448	I've	I
#449	choose	chose
#450	I have	I

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