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गैर-मातृभाषी अंग्रेज़ी में आम व्याकरण गलतियाँ

Some English grammar mistakes are common no matter how fluent you are, because English rules for these specific things are inconsistent and don't map cleanly onto most other languages. Here are the ones that come up most often, with quick fixes for each.

1. Articles: "a," "an," "the," or nothing

Many languages don't use articles at all, or use them differently, which makes this one of the hardest parts of English to get automatic.

Rough rule of thumb: use "the" when both you and the reader already know which specific thing you mean; use "a/an" when you're introducing something new or nonspecific; use no article for general plural or uncountable nouns ("I like coffee," not "I like the coffee," unless you mean a specific coffee already mentioned).

2. Prepositions

"Interested in," "married to," "good at," "afraid of" — the preposition that follows a given word in English is often arbitrary and doesn't translate directly from other languages.

These mostly have to be learned word by word rather than by rule. When in doubt, look up the specific word plus preposition combination rather than guessing from a general pattern.

3. Subject-verb agreement

This trips up speakers of languages that don't conjugate verbs by subject the way English does. The rule: third-person singular subjects (he, she, it, or a singular noun) take an -s on present-tense verbs.

4. Verb tense consistency

Once you establish a tense for describing an event, keep every verb in that sentence (and usually that paragraph) in the same tense unless the timeline genuinely shifts.

5. Countable vs. uncountable nouns

Words like "information," "advice," "furniture," and "equipment" are uncountable in English even when their equivalents are countable in other languages — no plural "-s," and use "much/a lot of" instead of "many."

6. Word order in questions and indirect questions

Direct questions invert subject and verb ("What is she doing?"), but indirect questions embedded in a sentence go back to normal subject-verb order.

The fastest way to catch these in your own writing

Knowing the rules and spotting your own mistakes in the moment are different skills — even fluent writers miss their own article and preposition errors because the sentence "sounds right" to them once they've written it. An AI proofreading tool reads your text the way a native speaker would, flags exactly this category of mistake, and explains why in plain English so the pattern actually sticks the next time.

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