Are you afraid of making mistakes in English?

The best way to learn English is by losing your shame and the fear to be wrong; we’re all human and make mistakes. Moreover, as an additional language that you’re learning you should be less rigid about the potential for making mistakes as they’re likely to happen. Don’t think about a mistake as a step back but as something to learn from and by that improve your level of English.

Even people whose native language is English make mistakes. In order to illustrate it, we’ve selected a series of examples shown in a document written by Bernard Lamb, a lecturer at Imperial College London, which is considered as one of the top three colleges in England.

Some students that were awarded first-class honours degrees made mistakes like:

Mistakes in English

Error	Explanation
Put implicated for implemented	Wrong use of the word
Put peace for piece	Wrong use of the word
Put defiantly for definitely	Wrong use of the word
Confuse effect/affect	Word confusion
Confuse where/were	Word confusion
Confuse their/there	Word confusion
Confuse compliment/complement	Word confusion
Confuse infected/affected	Word confusion
Confuse infer/imply	Word confusion
It incorporate how an organisms adapt to	Grammar error. It should be: It incorporates how an organism adapts to
A women	Grammar error. It should be: a woman
In 3 different country	Grammar error. It should be: in 3 different countries.
Put it’s for its	Punctuation error
Put bieng for being	Spelling error
Put recieved for received	Spelling error
Put usualy for usually	Spelling error
Put totaly for totally	Spelling error
alot	Two words written as one: a lot
Infact	Two words written as one: in fact
Inorder	Two words written as one: in order
More over	One word written as two: Moreover
There for	One word written as two: Therefore

And these are just some of the most eye-catching mistakes; there are many more. If you want to see the original document, you can download it from this link or this one.

Summing up, you need to lose the fear to make mistakes.

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