English Common errors: Aid – English editing.
Aid is mainly used as a noun: ‘Many countries survive on foreign aid from richer neighbors.’ ‘It is government policy to provide aid to the homeless or the unemployed.’ As…
English Common Errors: After – English editing.
After is used instead of afterwards only informal styles, usually in phrases such as ‘soon after’, ‘not long after’ or ‘just after’. Careful users generally prefer afterwards, especially at the…
English Common Errors : afraid – English editing.
Be afraid to do sth = be unwilling to do something because you are frightened about what may happen: ‘She was afraid to eat it in case was poisonous’. Don’t…
Open vs. close –class words – English editing.
Open class words, commonly referred as content words, are those belonging to the major part of speech like noun, verbs, adjective and adverbs. These words include brother, run, tall, quickly…
Sentence Structures – English editing.
The old structures are revised in the passage. But the new sentence structures are not explained and made easy to follow. These are an addition to his sentence structures and…