Common Mistakes at CAE.

Cambridge: 2016. — 64 p.

This book is based on information from the Cambridge Learner Corpus, a collection of over 60,000 exam papers from Cambridge ESOL. It shows real mistakes students make, and highlights which parts of English cause particular problems for learners.

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CONTENTS
1 Perfect tenses: simple or continuous? 5
2 Perfect tenses: active or passive? 6
3 Give or have* 7
Test 1
4 How many objects does the verb need? 10
5 Do I use the gerund or infinitive with the verb + object? 11 S Give, provide or offers 12
Test 2 13
7 How do I use must and have to7 15
8 Do I put the adverb before or after a modal verb? 16
9 How do I use be supposed to, be expected to and be meant to? 17
Test 3
10 This or these7 20
11 How do I use amount of, number of, kinds of, etc.? 21
12 Which article do I use? 22
Test 4 23
13 You, your, yours, or you're7 25
14 Opportunity, possibility or chance7 26
15 Commonly confused nouns 27
Test 5 28
16 Commonly confused adjectives 30
17 Big> great oi large? 31
18 When do I use a hyphen in compound words? 32
Test 6
19 Noun or verb? 35
20 How do I use negative prefixes? 36
21 When do I use regarding? 37
Test 7 38
22 How do I punctuate sentences with because and however? 40
23 How do I use because ofl 41
24 If or whether? 42
Test 8 43
25 How do I use put? 45
26 Pay or spend? 46
27 Which preposition do I use? 47
Test 9 48
28 What are some common spelling mistakes? 50
29 Is the spelling British or American? 51
30 Kids or children? 52
Test 10 53
Answer key 55

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