Common+Mistakes

After looking through the websites that listed the common mistakes made in writing, I found five mistakes that I make on almost all my essays. These mistakes are: My confusion between the words a lot, allot, and alot, accidentally making adding an "S" at the end of the word: anyways, the misconception of "due to", the difference between "uninterested" and disinterested", and lastly the distinction between the words "good" and "well".

The first common mistake that I make in my writing is the confusion between the words, a lot, allot, and alot. I would always get confused between a lot, and alot. Instead of using a lot, I would put it all together and use the word alot. Apparently, this is wrong. This is because the word, alot, does not really exist and is incorrect in terms of grammar. I guess I sort of knew that this was the case but I was always too lazy and I would never want to go back and change it. I use the word "alot" a lot and I think that I should really stop because it is not proper grammar.

The second common mistake that I find in my writing is, accidentally adding an "S" to the word "anyways". Apparently, this isn't proper and I should not be using this in writing. I guess that this is true but, I still feel ill-informed because I used to think that "anyways" was proper grammar and there was nothing wrong with using that.

The third mistake that I make in my writing is the misconception of "due to". I have been using this wrong for a very long time. Apparently, you cannot use this term when saying "the meet was canceled due to the rain" instead you would say "the meet was canceled because of the rain." The only time that you would use "due to" would be in cases in which you are stating what something was caused by. You would not use it to explain why something was canceled but what the cause of that cancellation was.

The fourth mistake that I find in my writing is the difference between "uninterested" and "disinterested".When you are disinterested it means that you are not picking sides or refuse to choose between things. When you are uninterested, you don't care about listening to something and you are generally not interested. I always get these confused and tend to use them interchangeably.

The fifth mistake that I make is the distinction between the words "good" and "well". I always get them confused and use them interchangeably as well. I learned that well is when you are saying "I don't feel well" and I learned that good is used when you are saying "that dress looks good on you". Well is used to describe an adjective and good is used to describe nouns.

Rebecca Zhou:

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Affect: the affect of a situation often leads to an effect.

Effect: the effect is the result of the affect.

Rebecca Peffer:

Further vs. Farther

Becca said that she got confused on which farther/further to use.

Farther: Baltimore is further north then New York.

Further: You still have further research.

Devin Bulwicz:

Devin said that he had trouble with lay and lie.

Lay: putting something down.

Lie: Reclining and placing something.

Natasha Stover:

Natasha said that she had trouble with its and it's.

Its: Its is a possessive word used with a noun.

It's: It's means "it is" or "it has".

Chris Snowadzky:

Chris said that he had trouble with anyone and everyone.

Anyone: means any person.

Everyon