These are helpful for me. These can be advantageous for you .



1. Incorrect: No sooner he saw me, he ran away.
Correct: No sooner did he see me. Than he ran away.
Reason: No sooner is always followed by ‘did’ and ‘than’.

2. Incorrect: The committee comprises of five members.
Correct: The committee comprises five members.
Reason: The verb ‘comprise’ is not followed by a preposition in the active voice “Of” is used in the Passive Voice (The committee is comprised of five members).

3. Incorrect: I do not want to part from you.
Correct: I do not want to part with you.
Reason: ‘With’ is used to show separation.

4. Incorrect: I shall return after four days.
Correct: I shall return in four days.
Reason: When we mean ‘at the end of’ in future, we use ‘in’.

5. Incorrect: Talking is not allowed in the library.
Correct: Talking in the library is not allowed.
Reason: The subject of the verb “is not allowed” is not ‘talking’. It is talking in the library.

6. Incorrect: Smoking is injurious for health.
Correct: Smoking is in injurious to health.
Reason: Wrong use of the preposition.

7. Incorrect: Though old, he is hail and hearty.
Correct: Though old, he is hale and hearty.
Reason: Wrong spelling.

8. Incorrect: But not for you, I would have failed.
Correct: But for you, I would have failed.
Reason: When we mean ‘Had you not been there’, we say ‘But for you’.

9. Incorrect: It is a very repeated story.
Correct: It is a much repeated story.
Reason: When Past Participle (i.e. the third form of the verb) is used as an Adjective, it is preceded by ‘much’.

10. Incorrect: I have worked very hard all the month long.
Correct: I have worked very hard all the month over.
Reason: ‘All the month long’ is not idiomatic.

11. Incorrect: I don’t know why has he not come.
Correct: I don’t know why he has not come.
Reason: In the indirect form of speech, an interrogative sentence in changed into an affirmative sentence by using the helping verb (has) after the subject (he).

12. Incorrect: Such boys who have not done their home-work should stand up.
Correct: Such boys as have not done their home-work should stand up.
Reason: ‘Such’ is followed by ‘as’ not ‘who’.

13. Incorrect: I have met him last month.
Correct: I met him last month.
Reason: When definite time is given. We use the Past Indefinite Tense’ not Present Perfect.

14. Incorrect: This is not a house worth-living.
Correct: This is not a house worth living in.
Reason: The verb ‘live’ has to be followed by the preposition “in”.

15. Incorrect: One must keep one’s words.
Correct: One must keep one’s word.
Reason: The correct idiom is: ‘to keep one’s word’.


16. Incorrect: Although he is my friend yet I don’t trust him.
Correct: Although he is my friend, I don’t trust him.
Reason: ‘Although’ is not followed by “yet”.

17. Incorrect: This woman has five off-springs.
Correct: This woman has five off-spring.
Reason: ‘Off-spring’ in the plural form remains ‘off-spring’.

18. Incorrect: My head pains
Correct: My head aches.
Reason: ‘Pains’ in this sense is unidiomatic.

19. Incorrect: He is very keen to go abroad.
Correct: He is very keen on going abroad.
Reason: ‘Keen’ is always followed by preposition ‘or’ which, in turn, is followed by ‘ing’ form of the verb.

20. Incorrect: We have ordered for many books.
Correct: We have ordered many books.
Reason: No preposition is used after ‘order’.

Dear Im sure that Although is followed by Yet....Use of Although & Yet is where u need to say two opposing ideas in one sentence....Hope u will get it...Ref: Bsc English Composition

Although is followed by YET but it cant be followed by BUT.i have confirmed it.

WARNING

When a sentence begins with
although or
though, you do not use `but' or `yet' to introduce the main clause. You do not say, for example, `Although he was late, yet he stopped to buy a sandwich'. You say `Although he was late,
he stopped to buy a sandwich'.

?"although...yet" is not allowed according to the 1992 version of Collins COBUILD English Usage.

21. Incorrect. Unless it is not free, I won't go.
Correct. Unless it is free, I won't go.
or
I won't go unless it is free.
Reason. Not" is not added with UNLESS. Unless itself shows negative sense.

Uses of Although......

Although I have been working hard, but have not improved??

Although I have been working hard, have not improved...???

Although, I have been working hard, have not improved???

Please let me know the use of although.... I am bit confused......


Also for However????


Thanks,

Dear, you have broken the sentence into two.. It is wrong. No sooner and than come in the same sentence. And remember, there is no comma in the sentence.
And often, no sooner and than are used with past perfect tense. Though past simple is also used, it is not always used.(Reference: Practical English Usage by Michael Swan, New International Students Edition, page 205, )
No sooner did he see me than he ran away.
OR
No sooner had he seen me than he ran away.

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Although I have been working hard, I have not improved.
I have been working hard, however I have not improved.

Uses Of Although/Though:

1. Both these words can be used as conjunctions, with the same meaning. Though is more informal and a spoken expression. If we say "Although/though A, B" these two words are used to present contrast, surprise or something unexpected about the clause B.

Although I don't like him, I agree that he is a good manager.

2. Used to mean 'but' or 'however' (when you are commenting on a statement.)

I would like to go out, although it is a bit late.
It is a bit late, but I would like to go out.
It is a bit late, however, I would like to go out.
I felt he was wrong, although I didn't say so at the time.
I felt he was wrong but I didn't say so at the time.
I felt he was wrong, however, I didn't say so at the time.

3.Used in the same meaning as 'in spite of (the fact)'.
We went out in spite of the rain.
We went out although it was raining.
He is a good company, in spite of the fact that he talks all the time.
He is a good company, (al)though he talks all the time.

Reference: Practical English Usage, Michael Swan, pages 39, 246. Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, 7th edition.

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"So my birth was the first of all my misfortunes". (Jean Jacques Rosseou)

My dear, from where have you confirmed it??
Practical English Usage by Michael Swan says that although can't be used with 'BUT'. See page 500.

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