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Whatever your mother tongue, you are likely to have encountered difficulties with most of the 50 vocabulary items in this book.
Each chapter contains:
- Examples of typical mistakes.
- Examples of correct usage.
- Rules / explanations.
- A short exercise where you can immediately practise what you have learned.
- Additional exercises (including false friends)
By completing the exercises in this book, you should be able to eliminate some of the most common vocabulary mistakes that non-native speakers of English tend to make.
Easy English! is a series of books to help you learn and revise your English with minimal effort. You can improve your English by
- reading texts in English that you might well normally read in your own language e.g. jokes, personality tests, lateral thinking games, wordsearches.
- doing short exercises to improve specificareas grammar and vocabulary, i.e. the areas that tend to lead to the most mistakes - the aim is just to focus on what you really need rather than overwhelming yourself with a mass of rules, many of which may have no practical daily value
Other books in the Easy English!series include:
Wordsearches: Widen Your Vocabulary in English
Test Your Personality: Have Fun and Learn Useful Phrases
Word games, Riddles and Logic Tests: Tax Your Brain and Boost Your English
Top 50 Grammar Mistakes: How to Avoid Them
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Top 50 Vocabulary Mistakes - Adrian Wallwork
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© Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Adrian WallworkTop 50 Vocabulary MistakesEasy English!https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70981-9_1
1. According to
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According to me, this will never work.
In my opinion / I think this will never work.
According to his opinion, it was my fault.
In his opinion / view … He thinks / believes / reckons that it was …
You must according to the doctor’s advice.
You must follow the doctor’s advice.
According to the accident, she arrived late for the party.
As a result of / Owing to / Because of …
According to all these reasons, we decided to abandon the project.
For all these reasons, we …
According to my husband, they are building a new supermarket here.
According to Einstein, time is an illusion.
The meeting all went according to schedule.
According to the table set out in Annex IV of the proposal.
As a result of / Owing to / Because of her illness she had to stop work.
Guidelines
according to a person but not me
according to a source (document, report, institute, figure)
as a result of / owing to / because of - as a consequence of
for a reason - gives an explanation for something
Some sentences are correct others are not: Correct the incorrect sentences
1.
Proposals are sorted according to their price, quantity and time priority.
2.
They were used according to the manufacturer’s operating manual.
3.
According to me they should all leave now.
4.
She was forced to give up her job according to her poor health.
5.
You should according to your teacher’s wishes.
6.
According to the power cut, the school had to be closed.
7.
According to our estimates about 30,000 people will be coming to the
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