
COMMON
DEFICITS / MISTAKES
English
Conclusions & Facts from Experience
Irregular Verbs

- Vocabulary
this often times reflects the problem of not understanding sentences, includung Task/exercises
- Grammar
Most deficits and mistakes are being made with the following tenses:
"Present Progressive - Simple Past - Present Perfect"
The deficit mostly relates to understanding (how to build a tense) which unfortunately shows up on paper (in writing) as well.
(Explanations to the above mentioned Tenses can be found here)
Mistakes
- Verbs
are often incorrectly written, since they aren't repeated often and IF, only orally. But for school purposes (test etc.),
students must know how to write them as well.
- choosing the correct indefinite article
-AN/A-
due to missing routing in the language of non-native English speakers, students often do to not become aware of this mistake.
- Prepositions (at, to, in ... etc)
- Word Order (S-V-O)
specially the correct placing of adverbs, such as sometimes, usually...


- Nouns/Verb ending in -es/-s
Nouns that end on either of these letters (es/s) in their plural forms.