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

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