Some Common Mistakes in the usage of noun
Incorrect Correct
Ticket window Ticket counter
Family members Members of the family
English teacher The teacher of English
Reasoning teacher The teacher of reasoning
English faculty The faculty of English
Cousin brother/sister Cousin
Boarding Boarding house
Lecturership Lectureship
Fastly Fast
Picket-pocketer Picket- pocket
Cooker (chef) Cook
Big blunder Blunder/ big mistake
Proudy Proud
According to me in my opinion .
Rule10:- If the same noun comes before and after a preposition, the noun will be in the singular form.
Wrong Right
Words for words word for word
Doors to doors door to door
Pages after pages page after page
Cars after cars car after car
Towns after towns town after town
Examples
1. He has read the whole novel page after page.☑️
2. She narrated the whole incident word for word.☑️
3. Car after car turned turtle in an accident last night.☑️
Rule 11:- Some nouns have two forms for the plural, each with a different meaning.
Singular plural
1. Brother 1- Brothers means - sons of the same parents
2- Brethren means- members of a society
2. Cloth 1- Cloths means- pieces of
cloths
2- Clothes means- garments
3. Index 1- Indexes means- contents
2- Indices means- signs used in Algebra
4. Quarter 1- Quarters means- one fourth
2- Quarters means-
Residence/ house
Examples
1- he returns to his quarters at 6 pm everyday.☑️ ( Quarters means- house)
2- The result of the previous quarter of the company is very poor. ☑️ ( Quarter means- one fourth)
Rule 12:- Some nouns have quite different meaning in the plural.
Singular plural
Air means- atmosphere Airs means- proud
Good- well-being Goods- merchandise
Respect- regard Respects- compliments
Physic- medicine Physics- science
Iron- metal Irons- chains, fetters
Force- strength Forces- army
Wood- timber Woods- forest
Water- liquid Waters- ocean
Advice- counsel Advices- information
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