Bookish dArktEmpLaR

正如其含义所指，Common errors in English一书指出了人们在日常用语中使用词汇的错误，书作者Paul Brains是华盛顿州立大学的教授，他指出，这些错误不仅是针对美国本土的公民，对于将英语作为第二语言的学习者来说也是非常有实际意义的。比如对我们经常使用的almost一词，这个网站有以下的建议：

Like “only,” “almost” must come immediately before the word or phrase it modifies: “She almost gave a million dollars to the museum” means something quite different from “She gave almost a million dollars to the museum.” Right? So you shouldn’t write, “There was almost a riotous reaction when the will was read” when what you mean is “There was an almost riotous reaction.”

这本书在网上作为免费版本供大家使用，此外也有绘图版的书出版。
书作者Paul Brains不仅在这方面有研究，他还对World Civilization，bibliographies等方面都有研究。

此外，Common errors in English还有Calender版本，不过是要收费的，有几个月的预览版本，效果如下，大家可以看看这个链接。

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