常見錯誤統計表
以下所列者都是練習英文者常見的問題。
如果您以最前六個所顯示者為參考標準，又如果您能夠明白解釋這六個參考標準的來龍去脈，那麼您就可以大致檢定您自己的英文，是否已達到最基本的水準。
以頻率多少來編排
| 整體常見的文法和寫作錯誤 | 次數 |
| Punctuation mark(s). | 528 |
| Noun: singular or plural? countable or uncountable? | 525 |
| Chinese grammar/translation in the English sentence. You just use a Chinese meaning and replace it with an English word without knowing the structure of the English word! | 348 |
| Capitalization | 337 |
| Check the usage of the English articles (''a'', ''an'', ''the'' and the zero articles). | 309 |
| Incorrect time reference! | 296 |
| Spelling! | 233 |
| No agreement between the words of a sentence! | 179 |
| Logical connectors (such as ''and,'' ''or,'' ''but'') are needed. | 155 |
| Unclear sentence pattern (S + Vt + Od, for example). | 142 |
| The meaning of the word(s) is unclear! | 139 |
| Puzzling preposition here! Generally speaking, use ''on'' before a date (''on 15th March''), ''in'' for the months, a year and the four seasons (''in March'', ''in 2000'', ''in summer''). | 103 |
| Unable to identify the 4 basic grammatical elements: Noun, Verb, Adj or Adv. | 85 |
| Incorrect collocation! | 78 |
| Unclear parallelism in the compound sentence! | 73 |
| Chinese mode of expression | 68 |
| Incorrect verb structure(s) => tense structure(s). | 66 |
| The function of the verb is incorrect! Is it vt, vi, or ve? | 55 |
| Unclear 3rd person singular simple present tense form. | 55 |
| Mis-use of relative pronoun (''who'', ''whom'', ''which'', ''whose''): ''who'' and ''whom'' refer to human beings; ''which'' refers to an event or an inanimate thing. And ''whose'' is used to replace the possessive adjective like ''my'', ''our'', ''your'', ''his'', ''her'', ''its'' or ''their''. | 53 |