Mistakes with prepositions and Verbs

Mistakes with prepositions and Verbs
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🔲Prepositions are small words but they are important ones. Some common mistakes in the use of prepositions are given here.
✖Incorrect: Who is the girl you were speaking with?
✔Correct: Who is the girl you were speaking to?
✖Incorrect: This is the house I was born on.
✔Correct: This is the house I was born in.
✖Incorrect: What are you looking in?
✔Correct: What are you looking at?
🔲To look at something is to gaze in a specified direction.
✖Incorrect: The manager has promised to look at the matter.
✔Correct: To manager has promised to look into the matter.
🔲To look into something is to investigate it.
✖Incorrect: It has been raining from Monday.
✔Correct: It has been raining since Monday.
🔲Use from to show the starting point only when the end point is also mentioned. In other cases, use since.
✖Incorrect: I have been waiting from two hours.
✔Correct: I have been waiting for two hours.
🔲Use for to indicate duration.
✖Incorrect: I will be attending the classes regularly since Monday.
✔Correct: I will be attending the classes regularly from Monday.
✖Incorrect: Divide the food between the children.
✔Correct: Divide the food among the children.
🔲Between is used when only two parties are involved. Among is used when more than two parties are involved.
✖Incorrect: We went to school by foot.
✔Correct: We went to school on foot.
Use ‘on’ with foot.
✖Incorrect: He doesn’t know how to ride on a bicycle.
✔Correct: He doesn’t know how to ride a bicycle.
Mistakes with  VERBS
🔵Here are some common mistakes in the use of verbs.
✖Incorrect: He asked that what I was doing.
✔Correct: He asked what I was doing.
🔵If a noun-clause begins with a wh-word, ‘that’ is omitted.
✖Incorrect: She asked had we finished our meals.
✔Correct: She asked if we had finished our meals.
🔵We use ‘if’ or ‘whether’ to introduce an indirect ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ question.
✖Incorrect: Rahul said can he go home.
✔Correct: Rahul asked if he could go home.
🔵When the reporting verb is in the past tense, the verb in the reported speech should also be in the past tense.
✖Incorrect: He does not care for his father’s words.
✔Correct: He pays no attention to his father’s words.
🔵To care for is to look after or to provide for the needs of someone.
🔵To pay attention to someone is to listen to what they are saying.
✖Incorrect: James does not care for money.
✔Correct: James does not take care of his money.
✖Incorrect: He said that he paid the fee last week.
✔Correct: He said that he had paid the fee the previous week.
🔵This is an example of the common failure to use the past perfect tense in the reported speech when the verb in the main clause is in the past tense.

✖Incorrect: This has been going on since a long time.
✔Correct: This has been going on for a long time.
Use ‘for’ to indicate duration.