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

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