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

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