Email Corrections

When you send me an email your starting mark is always an excellent. Then, I correct your writing and I discount all the mistakes you do. This is how you get your final mark (EXCELLENT - GREAT - GOOD - PASS - FAIL). If you want to understand my corrections, read the following examples. Here you have a sample of the most typical mistakes you could make in your email. This is the sample sentence: “I like studying English! I think it’s important because you learn a new language, culture and society.” Now look at the different mistakes and corrections.

1. Original: i like studying english! i think it’s important because you learn a new language, culture and society.

Correction: i like studying english! i think it’s important because you learn a new language, culture and society.

capital letterS (you forgot to start the sentence with capital letter or to write a name in capital letters, etc.)

2. Original: I like studying English I think it’s important because you learn a new language culture and society

Correction: I like studying English! I think it’s important because you learn a new language, culture and society.

ADD PUNCTUATION (you forgot to write commas, full stops, etc.)

3. Original: I like studying English! I think it’s importtant because you learn a new languague, culture and socaiety.

Correction: I like studying English! I think it’s importtant because you learn a new languague, culture and socaiety.

erase (you wrote some words wrong, you doubled some letters unnecessarily or you misspelled something)

4. Original: I like studing English! I think its importan because you learn a new languag, culture and society.

Correction: I like studying English! I think it’s important because you learn a new language, culture and society.

add (you forgot to write some letters or apostrophes and I included them in your original writing in green)

5. Original: I like studying English! I create it’s important for you learn a new idiom, culture and society.

Correction: I like studying English! I create it’s important for you learn a new idiom, culture and society.

wrong word (you made a vocabulary mistake or you wrote the wrong verb, preposition, etc.)

6. Original: I liking studying English! I think it's important because you learns a new language, culture and society.

Correction: I liking studying English! I think it's important because you learns a new language, culture and society.

WRONG VERB: ERASE –ING, –S… (you didn’t write the verb right, you used a wrong tense or wrong person)

7. Original: I like study English! I think it important because you learn a new language, culture and society.

Correction: I like studying English! I think it is important because you learn a new language, culture and society.

WRONG VERB: ADD –ING, –S… (you forgot to write the verb ending in –ing or you forgot the 3rd person –s)

8. Original: I like studiyng English! I think it’s important becuase you learn a new langauge, culture and society.

Correction: I like studiyng English! I think it’s important becuase you learn a new langauge, culture and society.

WRONG SPELLING (your made some spelling mistakes, you wrote the letters in the wrong order)

9. Original: I like potatoes! I think English it’s important because you learn a new language, culture and chair.

Correction: I like potatoes? I think English it’s important because you learn a new language, culture and chair?

NONSENSE (I don’t understand what you mean or I don’t understand why you used a certain word)

10. Original: I like studying English!I think it’simportant because you learn a new language,culture and chair.

Correction: I like studying English!/I think it’s/important because you learn a new language,/culture and chair.

NEEDS SEPARATION (you wrote two words together or you forgot the space after the punctuation mark)

11. Original: I like studying English!  I think it’ s important because you learn a new language,  culture and society.

Correction: I like studying English! _I think it’_s important because you learn a new language, _culture and society.

EXTRA SPACE (you wrote two spaces instead of one or you separate something that should go together)

12. Original: I like studying English but Eva prefers studying French and I think it’s important but she doesn’t agree.

Correction: I like studying English but Eva prefers studying French and (.) I think it’s important but she doesn’t agree.

FULL STOP (your sentence is too long and you should separate it with a full stop. Remember: 1 idea = 1 sentence)

REMEMBER: You always have 1 week to send me your email. So don't wait until the deadline to send it because there are always last minute problems. If you send it out of time and you are late your final mark will be a ZERO!!! So be wise and send it with extra time or you will get stressed!