Common mistakes in English

Over the last few years, we have corrected millions of words in the texts we have processed. Here, we present a list of common mistakes that we have found. The list is sorted according to the frequency with which we corrected the phrase. Not all corrections are present due to privacy concerns.

Position	Before	After
#7501	hard earned	hard-earned
#7502	have	give
#7503	became	was
#7504	wrong	incorrectly
#7505	Now a day	Nowadays
#7506	my	her
#7507	live	have lived
#7508	Sales force	Salesforce
#7509	bachelor	bachelor's degree
#7510	people to people	people-to-people
#7511	set	sit
#7512	import	important
#7513	had seen	saw
#7514	crack	cracked
#7515	years old	year-old
#7516	assist	assisted
#7517	personal	personnel
#7518	towards	against
#7519	government	governmental
#7520	increased	increases
#7521	she's	She has
#7522	Jason	Jason's
#7523	Because he	He
#7524	In my	My
#7525	sister in law	sister-in-law
#7526	and	can
#7527	hold	have
#7528	next	upcoming
#7529	refers	refer
#7530	Saturdays	Saturday's
#7531	Still	I still
#7532	head	headed
#7533	exibition	exhibition
#7534	hour	time
#7535	in scope	in-scope
#7536	When	Whilst
#7537	foundations	foundation
#7538	by	according to
#7539	install	installing
#7540	count	counts
#7541	aluminium	aluminum
#7542	better	improve
#7543	to participate	in participating
#7544	I´m	I'm
#7545	getting	gets
#7546	themself	themselves
#7547	making	and made
#7548	clothes	clothing
#7549	respect	respects
#7550	wouldn't	would
#7551	modeling	modelling
#7552	invest	invests
#7553	were	we are
#7554	part-time	part time
#7555	break up	break-up
#7556	becomes	will become
#7557	at	in a
#7558	half way	half-way
#7559	results	resulted
#7560	psychologist	psychologists
#7561	committe	committee
#7562	natural	naturally
#7563	alternate	alternative
#7564	I’d	I
#7565	re-creation	recreation
#7566	disadvantages	disadvantage
#7567	consists	consisted
#7568	full time	a full-time
#7569	full fill	fulfill
#7570	end	ending
#7571	On last	Last
#7572	Thnaks	Thanks
#7573	Though	Even though
#7574	goed	went
#7575	determines	determine
#7576	went	been
#7577	interviews	interview
#7578	17	seventeen
#7579	companys	companies
#7580	or even	and
#7581	kno	know
#7582	be	come
#7583	tourist	tourists
#7584	Welsh speaking	Welsh-speaking
#7585	told	tells
#7586	lying	laying
#7587	trigger	triggered
#7588	tends	tend
#7589	negotiations	negotiation
#7590	monitors	monitor
#7591	neighbor	neighboring
#7592	were	would
#7593	conclude	concluded
#7594	singing	signing
#7595	exist	existing
#7596	built	building
#7597	MEP	MEP's
#7598	It	as it
#7599	under way	underway
#7600	require	need

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