中国学生写英语句子的13种常见错误类型
婚礼感谢词-数学填空题
一般英语写作考试，成功的关键在于句子是否写得正确。本文归纳了中国学生写英语句子
时的13种常见错误类型。所有例句均来自学生的实际英语作文。
Mistake
Type 1. Wrong tenses
[Improper] I had a look
at my watch and I knew what will happen.
[Improved] I had a look at my watch and I knew
what would happen.
[Improper] Riding bicycles
had more advantages than taking a bus.
[Improved] Riding bicycles has more advantages
than taking a bus.
Mistake Type 2
Agreement problems
[Improper] Every one of us
have the right to be happy.
[Improved] Every
one of us has the right to be happy.
[Improper]The eating habit of Chinese people
have changed dramatically in the past decade.
[Improved] The eating habit of Chinese people
has changed dramatically in the past decade.
[Improper] There is so many countries using
English that it had been regarded as an
international
language.
[Improved] There
are so many countries using English that it had
been regarded as an
international language.
Mistake Type 3 Pronoun misuses
[Improper] If the humans want to live well, we
must keep nature in balance.
[Improved] If the
humans want to live well, they must keep nature in
balance.
我经常告诉自己，离家的时候我不应该哭，因为那很不成熟。
[Improper] I always told myself that I
shouldn’t cry when the time to leave was coming
because it
was not mature.
[Improved] I
had always told myself that I wouldn’t cry when
the time arrived for me to leave
home, for
that was a sign of my immaturity.
[Improper] So long as you have the Internet
access and some necessary rights, anyone can
receive education wherever you lives in.
[Improved] So long as you have the Internet
access and some necessary licenses, you can
receive
education wherever you live in.
[Improper] Whether one enjoys or resents
advertisements, we are actually bombarded with it
every hour of the day.
[Improved] Whether
one enjoys or resents advertisements, he is
actually bombarded with them
every hour of the
day.
Mistake Type 4 Wrong use of
comparative degree
[Improper] With the
advancement of science and technology, I believe
that people’s life will be
more and more
happier.
[Improved] With the advancement of
science and technology, I believe that people’s
life will
become happier and happier.
[Improper] The world is getting more smaller
and smaller.
[Improved] The world is getting
smaller and smaller.
Mistake Type 5
Dangling modifiers
[Improper] In order to get
a good mark, it took me much time, when I didn’t
have classes this
weekdays, to get ready for
this exam.
[Improved] In order to get a good
mark, I spend much of my spare time getting ready
for this
exam.
[Improper] There are
many ways to improve city traffic, for example
widening the streets,
building subways and so
on.
[Improved] There are many ways to improve
city traffic. For example, we can widen the
streets,
build subways and so on.
[Improper] My friends told me one of my old
classmates had been killed in a sudden accident.
Heard of that, I couldn’t think anything for a
long time.
[Improved] My friend told me one of
my old classmates had been killed in a sudden
accident.
Hearing of that, I couldn’t think of
anything for a long time.
Mistake Type 6
Improper Subordinate Causes
[Improper] If
someone wanted to go back to ancient society,
which had no electricity, cloth and
room,
almost every people would say he was crazy.
[Improved] If anyone wants to go back to
ancient times, in which there was no electricity,
cloth or
room, almost every people will say he
is crazy.
[Improper] It is said that
we’d better live in a small town instead of the
big city if we want better
health and longer
life, and it is analyzed that the reason is the
different life styles between the
cities and
towns which people have a relaxation life in town
but a nervous life in city. (55 words)
[Improved] It is said that we’d better live in
a small town instead of the big city if we want a
better
health and a longer life. This is
because, they say, the life style in the city is
nervous while that in
the town is relaxed. (46
words)
Mistake Type 7 Improper
collocations
[Improper] When TV came into the
world, the people’s life had a large changes.
[Improved] After TV came to the world,
people’s life changed a great deal.
Or: The
arrival of TV greatly changed people’s life.
但在另一方面，科学技术也能带来一些灾难。
[Improper] But in
another aspect, some disaster were brought from
the same science and
technology.
[Improved] On the other hand, science and
technology can also bring about some disasters.
相反，另外的人不同意这种观点。他们喜欢不断变换工作。
[Improper] By contrast, other people
don’t agree above pointview. They like change jobs
from
time to time.
[Improved] By contrast,
other people don’t agree to that viewpoint. They
like to change jobs from
time to time.
每个人，不管年龄，每天都需要锻炼。
[Improper] Everyone, no
matter what age, needs exercise every day.
[Improved] Everyone, regardless of his age,
needs exercise every day.
[Improper] In
a lonely cabin, there are several children with
bad wearing.
[Improved] In a lonely cabin,
there are several children in rags.
[Improper] She completed all courses in
primitive school, in high school.
[Improved]
She completed all the courses in primary and high
school.
Mistake Type 8 Faulty structures
随着中国经济的发展，汽车在中国进入家庭将越来越普遍。
[Improper] With
the Chinese economy developing, cars entering
families in China is more and
more usualness.
(teachers’ training class)
[Improved] As
China’s economy develops, there will be more and
more cars entering families in
China. Or: As
China’s economy develops, it will become more and
more common for cars to
enter families in
China.
It made me can not forget my
grandmother…
[Improved] It made me unable to
forget my grandmother…
总之，作为一名学者，大学教师将变得更加渊博，更加有实践经验，而不是浪费时间和精力。
[Improper] In a word, as a scholar, college
teachers will become more wise and more practical
instead of losing their time and energy.
[Improved] In a word, working as a
scholar, a college teacher will become wiser and
more
experienced in practice. By no means is
it a waste of time and energy.
中国快速发展，为人
们提供了许多工作机会，有些人同时有几份工作，因此他们必须提高工
作效率，包括交通效率。
[improper] China develops very fast which
could supply so many chances of jobs for people
that a
few of people have several jobs at the
same time, and they must improve their efficiency
including
walking in the road.
[improved]
As China develops rapidly, so many new job
opportunities are opened up that some
people
can take several jobs at the same time, which
makes it necessary for them to minimize their
travel hours.
Mistake Type 9
Unnecessary repetition
[Improper] One reason
is that the people may have more money than ever
before, which makes it
possible for them to
buy cars for their families. Another is the
development of automobile
industry brings down
the price of cars, which makes it possible for
them to buy cars.
[Improved] One reason is
that the people have more money than ever before,
which makes it
possible for them to by private
cars. Another reason is the development of
automobile industry
brings down the price of
cars, thus paving their way into the households in
China.
Mistake Type 10 Unparalleled
structures
无论你做出什么选择，最终目标应该是为了更好地工作和进一步发展。
[Improper] No matter what choice you made, the
final goal should be to do better work and further
development.
[Improved] No matter what
choice you make, the final goal should be for a
better work and further
development.
Mistake 11 Confused mood
总之，如果没有电视，我们就可能失去一些能给我们带来幸福的东西。
[Improper]
In a word, if we have no TV, we may lose something
which bring us happy.
[Improved] In a
word, if we had no TV, we might lose something
which brings us happiness.
[Improper]
(Some people hold that science and technology is
an unimportant thing or even a bad
thing.)
Firstly, with science and technology, human beings
can explore any resources in our
universe and
take use of them with a very high speed beyond our
imagination…
[Improved] Firstly, with science
and technology, human beings can exploit any
resources in our
universe and consume them at
an unimaginable speed.
Mistake 12
Incomplete Sentences
[Improper] Will, like a
light tower in the sea, which can conduct us to
advance on a right track.
[Improved] Will,
like a light tower in the sea, can conduct us to
advance on a right track.
他们反对经常跳槽，因为频繁跳槽将导致一事无成。
[Improper] they
object to changing job frequently. Because
frequent job-hopping will result to
nothing
can done.
[Improved] They object to changing
jobs frequently, because that might result in
their getting
nowhere at all (or: because that
might lead to failure in every job they do.).
然而科学技术是把双刃剑，如果使用不当将给人类带来毁灭性的灾难。
[Improper]
But the science and technology also is a two-edge
sword, if uses unsuitably will bring
the
suffering of destruction to people.
[Improved]
But science and technology is also a double-edged
sword, which might be destructive
to human
being if used improperly.
[Improper] The
most funny thing is that there were five of my
classmates were born in November,
1983.
[Improved] The most funny thing is that there
were five of my classmates who were born in
November, 1983.
Many experts
anticipated that in the next coming years, there
will be more and more Chinese
families make
making private cars as their major transportation
vehicle.
Mistake 13 Run-on sentences
[Improper] A chairman was having lunch, a
soldier stood by him.
[Improved] A chairman
was having lunch, a soldier standing by him.
[Improper] I was born in a small town, in the
town there was only one school, I studied there
for
six years.
[Improved] I was born in a
small town. In it there was only one school. I
studied there for six
years. Or:
I studied
for six years at the only school in the small town
where I was born.
[Improper] In former
times, elephants hadn’t long noses. They only had
a black nose which was
like shoe. Then, a
little elephant was born, he was curious, he
always asked others: “ why?”
[Improved] In
former times, elephants did not have long noses.
They only had black noses like
shoes. Then, a
little elephant was born who was curious and
always asked others “why”.
随着中国进入WTO，汽车的成本这些年正在下降，许多家庭能够购买和使用私人汽车了。
[Improper] As China entered WTO, the cost of a
car is decreasing in these years, many families
could buy and use a family car.
[Improved]
As China has become a member of WTO, the cost of a
car is keeping lowering down
in recent years
so that many families could afford a private car.