Learn English: Using the wrong preposition
➖Using the wrong preposition➖
Deprive of, not from.
❌ Don't say: Nelson Mandela was deprived from his freedom.
✅ Say: Nelson Mandela was deprived of his freedom.
➖Miscellaneous examples➖
Using a day, etc., instead of one day, etc.
❌ Don't say: A day they went sight-seeing in Florence.
✅ Say: One day they went sight-seeing in Florence.
▪️Use one (not a or an) with day, night, morning, afternoon and evening, when the one means on a certain ....
➖Use of the wrong tense➖
Using the past continuous for a habitual action, instead of the simple past tense.
❌ Don't say: Last year I was walking to school every day.
✅ Say: Last year I walked to school every day.
▪️Use the simple past tense to express a habit in the past, and not the past continuous
📌Note: Use the past continuous tense to describe events in the past happening at the time another action took place: I was walking to school when I met him.