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)