Avoiding mistakes made easy
In your class work or exams, do you keep reading a red A in the margin for mistakes in expression? Read here how you can improve your expression and thus avoid errors in expression.
What you need:
- Time
- a practice
- reading
Expressive errors do not have to be
- Typographical errors often arise because the writer wrote down what he wanted to express too quickly and then did not read through the text. Then you should make it a habit to reread your texts before submitting them. In this way you can recognize and improve in time confused jumps in thought, endless sentences and often the associated errors of expression.
- It becomes more difficult if you write in colloquial language or write as one speaks. To avoid these types of typographical errors, the best thing to do is to read regularly. By reading novels and daily newspapers you will develop a feel for the written languagethat is different from the spoken language. Regular reading will therefore help you to gradually reduce and ultimately even avoid errors in expression.
- If you are looking for a better expression for a slang word, it is also helpful to take a look at a synonym dictionary. Here you will find alternative words with the same meaning. By regularly looking up such synonymous words, you can get your vocabulary expand and at the same time prevent errors of expression.
- Stay tuned! You cannot avoid typographical errors overnight. However, by reading regularly you will certainly be able to reduce these further and further. And as a positive side effect, regular reading also improves your reading spelling, orthography, Sentence structure and grammar. Because by reading the feeling for language, expression and spelling is incidentally impressed.
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