I found these sentences in Rediff.com. The website had asked readers to contribute English howlers they had come across. I think we make these errors because we tend to translate what we think in our own language. When we do that we don’t follow rules. We just do a word-for-word raw translation and these are the results. Try and correct the errors in these sentences.
1. Please return my book back.
2. Could you repeat the last line again?
3. I, my sister and Deepa went to the mall.
4. The fish aquarium is very large.
5. The dance ballet was lovely.
6. I could not able to do it, sir.
7. I’m going to give an examination.
8. The city bus service is highly erotic!
There was also this letter. See what you can make of it.
Dear Sir,
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