英语写作中容易出错的单词有哪些
词是英语作文的重要一环，也是衡量作文优劣的重要标准之一。好的作文遣词应该是形式和内容的完美统一，即形式上复杂、多样，内容上准确、得体和传神。这样的作文才能闪亮登场。准确用词是作文遣词的基础，下面是本站小编整理的英语写作中容易出错的单词， 希望对大家有帮助。
1. explain
典型错误：Please explain me how to join a tennis club.
正确表达：explain不属于可带双宾语的动词，可以说：explain sth. (to sb.)或explain to sb. sth.，故上句应改为:
Please explain to me how to join a tennis club.
类似用法的动词还有say, suggest etc. 例：
I have something to say to you.
What did you suggest to the manager?
2. provide
典型错误：They provided him Money and clothes.
正确表达：provide作“给……提供”解时，常构成：provide sb. with sth.或provide sth. (for sb.) 例：
John provides me with all the necessities of existence.
类似动词有supply(供给)，常构成：supply sb. with sth.或supply sth. to sb. 例：
Foreign governments supplied arms to the rebels.
3. serve
典型错误：A slave serves for his master.
正确表达：serve表“为……服务;接待(顾客);侍候吃饭、端(菜);服刑等”解时，常用作及物动词，故不与介词连用，上句中须去掉介词for。例：
We should serve our country. (为……服务)
I am still waiting to be served. (接待)
He has served half his sentence. (服刑)
△短语serve for 表示的是“充当、用作、用……作;够……用、适用于、对……合适。”之意。例：
This box will have to serve for a table until the furniture arrives.
This house will serve for my simple needs, but will it serve for the whole family?
这房子可以满足我的简单需要，但对全家来说够用吗?
4. enter
典型错误：She entered into the house.
正确表达：enter表示“进来(去)”时后面不跟介词。在非正式英语中多用come into和go into。例：
She entered the room without being noticed.
△ 短语enter into常用于正式场合，表示：
a. “开始讨论、着手处理”。例：
Let’s not enter into details at this moment.
b. “积极参加、投入”。例：
We entered into the spirit of Christmas. 我们开始感受到了圣诞节的气氛。
c. “开始、参与”(此时其后常接表“抽象概念的词”。)例：
They entered into a contract/an agreement. 他们订立了合同/达成了协议。
5. discuss
典型错误：Peter refused to discuss about the matter.
正确表达：discuss表“讨论、谈论”时是及物动词，故上句中须去掉介词about。例：
She has something of great importance to discuss with you.
They discussed whether they had done anything wrong.
6. follow
典型错误：The child followed after his mother up the stairs.
正确表达：follow作“跟随;沿着(走);遵循;理解等”时，常为及物动词。故上句中须删除介词after。例：
August follows July.
Then you are going to follow her advice, aren’t you?
Do you follow what I am saying?
7. return
典型错误：They didn’t return back home till nine o’clock.
正确表达：return不与back连用，故上句中须去掉back。但可用come/go back。例：
My friend and I return to town by the midnight express.
It’s suddenly come back to me where I saw you last. 我突然回想起来最近在什么地方见过你。
8. repeat
典型错误：Please repeat that again.
正确表达：repeat不与again连用，故上句须去掉again。但可用say……again。例：
You can say that again!
9. congratulate
典型错误：She congratulated them for what they had achieved.
正确表达：congratulate (祝贺、道贺)常与介词on/upon连用。例：
We congratulated him on having passed the examination.
10. passed
典型错误：I past my driving test.
正确表达：动词pass的一般过去时变化是规则的，即passed; 而past不是动词形式，可作形容词、名词、介词和副词。故应将上句中的past改为passed。例：
I’ve been ill for the past two weeks.
The old man is living in the past. 这位老人现在生活在过去之中。
11. cross
典型错误：The soldiers acrossed the bridge by means of ladders.
正确表达：作介词或副词的across不能单独作谓语，可将上句中的acrossed改为动词crossed或went across。
12. during
典型错误：During you are away, I’ll be kind to him.
正确表达：during (在……内;在……时期中)是一介词，故不能作关联词。上句须改为：While you are away, I’ll be kind to him. 例：
Not a word did they exchange during the meal.
13. between
典型错误：You’re to sit between Tom and I.
正确表达：介词between(在……之间)后的代词应用宾格，故上句应改为：
You’re to sit between Tom and me.
14. more
典型错误：My room is much more better than the one next door.
正确表达：上句中better已是形容词比较级，故须去掉more。
airs
典型错误：We go to upstairs to bed.
正确表达：作副词时，upstairs及downstairs前不用介词，上句应改为：
We go upstairs to bed.
16. lately
典型错误：He got here five minutes lately.
正确表达：lately是指“最近(recently)”,而late作副词时是表示“晚;到很晚”，故上句应改为：
He got here five minutes late.
Have you seen her lately?
△ 试比较以下含“形似意异”词语的句子：
a. He works hard in school while his brother hardly ever reads a book.
在校他努力学习然而他弟弟几乎不读书。
b. Most of them, who were mostly friends of the manager, were saved in the fire.
他们中的大多数被从火灾中救了出来，他们主要是经理的朋友。
c. Only when December draws near do I realize that it’s nearly Christmas.
只有当十二月临近我才意识到几乎已是圣诞节了。
17. price
典型错误：The owner charged an expensive price for his new flat.
正确表达：price常与high/reasonable/right/low 等连用，而expensive, cheap则常与表“物品”的名词连用。例：
Loneliness is a high price to pay for independence in your old age.
孤寂是老年独自生活要付出的高昂代价。
I can’t afford the car; it’s too expensive.
18. from place to place
典型错误：Fishes in the ocean are carried from places to places by tides.
正确表达：英语中通常讲究一个平行结构原则：两个相同的名词放在一个平行结构里，名词一般用单数且前通常不加冠词。例：
face to face(面对面)
hand in hand(手牵手)
side by side (并肩)
shoulder to shoulder(并肩、协力)neck and neck(赛马等)并驾齐驱、不分上下day by day(指渐进的过程)day after day(重复的单一的行动)
△ 但在谚语“以眼还眼 以牙还牙。”中则是：
an eye for an eye (and a tooth for a tooth)
19. key
典型错误：The key of success is preparation.
正确表达：key作“最重要的事;答案、解释、说明等”解时，其后常与to连用，构成the key to sth. 例：
Here is a key to the grammar exercises.
20. what
典型错误：All what I am afraid of is their taking him to Paris.
正确表达：关系代词型的what相当于the thing(s) that (which)，其前不能再用先行词。上句可改为：
All that I am afraid of is their taking him to Paris. 或
What I am afraid of is their taking him to Paris.
