Blog 4: Grammar problems

One of the most popular grammar mistake is not using the infinitive after the word 'to'. I think this is a grammar mistake that contains to many people because it is easy to forget and they often replace the infinitive with a past or present form. 

Especially in a hurry this grammar mistake is seen many times. I think that many people forget to use the infinitive because they want to express something in the past or in the future. For example if someone wants to say that he was forced to do something he is writing:,,He forced me to cleaned my room".This is wrong because after the word 'to' must be used a infinitive. In this example it is enough that the word ,forced, stands in the past form to set the whole sentence in the past. The word after the ,to, do not have to stand in the past form too. I have done this grammar mistake many times in the 8. and 9. grade because it was hard for me to remember the rule and to hear the different between using the past tense or the infinitive after the word ''to''. Now I find a good way to pretend this common grammar mistake. First of all you have to check if you will use the word ,to, in your sentence or not. After it you write your sentence down and try to remember to use the infinitive. The third and most important step is to read your text again and listen how it sounds to you stop if something sounds wrong like a past tense after the word ,to,. Thats why you have to check your sentences after you have written your text and make sure that you used the infinitive. With all these steps I learned really good to prevent this popular grammar mistake. If you have noticed that you make the same grammar mistake many times you have to focus on it and to find a way to prevent this mistake. The best way to pretend a grammar mistake is to practice against it. You can do this with writing many sentences where you have used the right grammar. Another possibility is to do exercises where you have to find your grammar mistake and where you have to correct the grammar mistake. A good first step is to find and notice your mistake so that you can do something against it. This can be quite easy when you are focused on your grammar and especially on the most common mistakes. While writing my blogs I often had to correct the following sentence : ,,They have to were together". After reading this sentence again I notice that ''were'' have to be changed in ''be''. Thats why it is really important to reread your sentences.

 All in all grammar mistakes are common mistakes in writing which can be prevented with being concentrated , thinking about what you are writing, and rereading your whole text to prove it for mistakes. Thats the way how you can increase your writing.