This document lists common errors in orthography, syntax, morphology, verbs, and lexicon that are frequently made in Spanish. In orthography, it provides examples of commonly misspelled words. In syntax, it discusses errors in sentence structure including word order, adjective placement, subjects, negatives, impersonal "haber", purpose, and want. Other syntactic errors mentioned include Saxon genitives, articles, plurals, possessive adjectives, indefinite adjectives, comparative adjectives, object pronouns, subject-verb agreement, irregular verbs, verbal inconsistencies, modal verbs, and verbs followed by prepositions. Errors in morphology around articles, pluralization, possessive adjectives, and indefinite adjectives
3. SINTÁXIS:
Posición de los elementos de la frase:
• Samuel was in the office.
• And the telephone rang.
• He likes driving very much.
• One day, a beautiful woman came into the office.
Posición del adjetivo:
• A dead man.
• A very untidy flat.
Sujetos:
• He thinks it is better.
• Lenny told the hole story in the café
4. Formas negativas:
• Helen didn´t go to the office.
Some, any y compuestos:
• She didn´t say anything.
Impersonal `haber´:
• In the wardrobe there weren´t clothes.
• In the bathroom there was a body.
Finalidad:
• He went to his flat to speak with him.
• Lenny went to “Las Cabanas” to ask for her.
Want:
• Helen wanted to see him.
• She wanted to that Lenny for her sister
6. MORFOLOGÍA:
Articulo indeterminado:
• He had nice teeth.
• An office.
• He is a detective.
Plurales:
• Other man.
• Two addresses.
• Two men.
• This person.
Adjetivos posesivos:
• Helen and her sister
• His flat
7. Adjetivos indefinidos:
• There wasn´t many clothes.
• Many people.
Grado del adjetivo:
• Shorter
• Later
Pronombres personales objeto:
• With her.
• He asked her where…
Concordancia sujeto/verbo:
• She leaves the office
• Everything was very neat
• They were talking
• The clothes were
• He talks with Suzy
8. Verbos irregulares:
• Left
• Spoke
• Thought
• Caught
• Knew
• Fought
• Broke
• Wrote
Incoherencias verbales:
• Elaine has been disappearing
• She has disappeared
• He didn’t say anything
• They didn’t go
• She has met a man
• She had flown from New York
• She met a wonderful man
9. Verbos modales:
• He must go to “Las Cabanas”.
• She couldn´t pay him.
• He could arrive.
10. Verbos con preposición:
• He waited for her
• He entered into the room
• He listened to her
• Samuel phoned the police
• Lenny met Sargeant Murphy
• Lenny asked her
• He met her
La terminación –ing:
• After talking with him
• She left without telling Samuel
Preposiciones:
• He went to Elaine’s flat
• She arrived at her office
• He was in his flat
11. LÉXICO:
• The man was dead
• She invented this story
• Myer told him that
• She argumented that
• He died
• He told the truth
• A police man found him
• Then, she…