Error Correction Notes - Organized Table
Grammar Element Explanation Examples
To-Infinitive All verbs that come after 'to' ✅ to clean / ❌ to cleans / ❌ to
must be in the root form. cleaned
Modal Verbs All verbs that come after Eg: She MUST CLEAN the
modals must be in the root room.
form. Modals include: can, He CAN WRITE songs.
could, shall, should, will, They SHOULD WORK on
would, must, may, might. their assignment.
Article Use 'a' or 'an' for singular, Eg: a book, an apple, the sky
general nouns and 'the' for
specific nouns.
Quantifier Use 'many' with countable Eg: many books, much
nouns and 'much' with water
uncountable nouns.
Preposition Use prepositions correctly Eg: in the room, at the table,
to indicate place, time, or on the floor
relationship.
Conjunction Use conjunctions to connect Eg: and, but, or
words, phrases, or clauses.
Auxiliary Verb Auxiliary verbs help form Eg: is, are, was, were, am,
tenses, moods, or voices of has, have, had
other verbs.
Tenses - Simple Present: Subject + Eg:
root/(-s) (eg: They clean / Simple Present: They
She cleans). clean / She cleans
- Simple Past: Subject + past Simple Past: He cleaned
tense (eg: He cleaned). Continuous: She is writing /
- Continuous: Subject + They are writing
'is/are' + verb-ing (eg: She Perfect: She has cleaned /
is writing). They have cleaned
- Perfect: Subject +
'has/have' + past participle
(eg: She has cleaned).
Gerund Verb + -ing form used as a Eg:
noun. Often comes after - She STARTS RUNNING a
specific words like start, marathon.
stop, while, continue, finish. - He STOPPED WORKING
last year.
- WHILE ANSWERING the
paper, he chews gum.
Noun Nouns can be singular or Eg: a book, two books, chair,
plural. chairs
Pronoun Includes subject, object, and Eg:
possessive forms: - Subject: She is here.
- Subject: I, you, he, she, it, - Object: Give it to me.
they, we. - Possessive: This book is
- Object: me, you, him, her, mine.
it, them, us.
- Possessive: mine, yours,
his, hers, its, theirs, ours.