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

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