English Grammar Rules & Mistakes: Learn All of the Essentials: Writing, Speaking, Literature and Punctuation Rules Complete with 10 Key Skills and Over 200 Common Error Examples

How To Avoid Fluff In Writing
The following tips should help you avoid fluff in writing:
Have a plan to write first and edit later
Trim paragraphs to be short and concise
Specific Advanced Writing Mistakes
Below are specific advance writing mistakes that are difficult to spot:
American and British English
It is important to know your audience. There are some crucial differences in
American and British English. You need to know these differences to be able
to provide the right content for the right audience. Below are crucial
differences in American and British English you need to notice:
Spellings
American: holiday
British:
vacation
American: (car) hood
British:
(car) bonnet
American: apartment
British:
flat
Collective Nouns
In American English, collective nouns are singular, while they can be

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singular or plural in British English.
American: The band is playing tonight.
British:
The band are playing tonight.
Past Tense
American: learned
British:
learned or learnt
American: dreamed
British:
dreamed or dreampt
American: burned
British:
burned or burnt
Order of Adjectives
The right order of adjectives in the English language is quantity, quality, size,
age, shape, color, proper adjective, and qualifier.
Incorrect: 
I am impressed by that really new, large black antique car at
the end of the road.
Correct:
I am impressed by that really large, new black antique car at
the end of the road.
MCQs: Choose the appropriate options from the statements below:
I would like to purchase those ____ dresses. (A. four big yellow B. big four
yellow)
Answer: A
She is a ____ girl. (A. big tall B. tall big)
Answer: B
Further versus Farther
These two words are often used interchangeably. However, they are not the
same and cannot be used as such. “Further” has to do with a figurative

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distance while “farther” describes a physical distance. Below are the wrong
and proper usages of these two words:
Incorrect: To move farther in life, you need to maintain your focus.
Correct:
To move further in life, you need to maintain your focus.
Incorrect: 
The captain told me that we could not move further than the
short fence due to security reasons.
Correct:
The captain told me that we could not move farther than the
short fence due to security reasons.