Common mistakes in English | 9

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.

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Position	Before	After
#401	mean	means
#402	number	numbers
#403	your	you’re
#404	employee	employees
#405	that	when
#406	its	it
#407	way	ways
#408	in	by
#409	look	looked
#410	resource	resources
#411	include	includes
#412	as	and
#413	open	opened
#414	because	as
#415	we	we're
#416	sometime	sometimes
#417	plan	plans
#418	was	had been
#419	anytime	any time
#420	by	in
#421	requirement	requirements
#422	interest	interests
#423	stop	stopped
#424	and this	This
#425	he’s	his
#426	close	closed
#427	find	found
#428	came	come
#429	there’s	there are
#430	friend	friends
#431	is	as
#432	Thanks	Thank
#433	share	shared
#434	1st	first
#435	about	on
#436	and he	He
#437	00pm	00 pm
#438	double check	double-check
#439	off	of
#440	am looking	look
#441	build	built
#442	and	then
#443	organization	organizations
#444	situation	situations
#445	have been	were
#446	how	what
#447	those	these
#448	choose	chose
#449	I've	I
#450	myself	me

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