詞是英語作文的重要一環，也是衡量作文優劣的重要標準之一。好的作文遣詞應該是形式和內容的完美統一，即形式上復雜、多樣，內容上準確、得體和傳神。這樣的作文才能閃亮登場。準確用詞是作文遣詞的基礎，下面是小編整理的英語寫作中容易出錯的單詞， 希望對大家有幫助。

英語中容易出錯的單詞篇1

1. explain

典型錯誤：Please explain me how to join a tennis club.

正確表達：explain不屬于可帶雙賓語的動詞，可以說：explain sth. (to sb.)或explain to sb. sth.，故上句應改為:

Please explain to me how to join a tennis club.

類似用法的動詞還有say, suggest etc. 例：

I have something to say to you.

What did you suggest to the manager?

2. provide

典型錯誤：They provided him money and clothes.

正確表達：provide作“給……提供”解時，常構成：provide sb. with sth.或provide sth. (for sb.) 例：

John provides me with all the necessities of existence.

類似動詞有supply(供給)，常構成：supply sb. with sth.或supply sth. to sb. 例：

Foreign governments supplied arms to the rebels.

3. serve

典型錯誤：A slave serves for his master.

正確表達：serve表“為……服務;接待(顧客);侍候吃飯、端(菜);服刑等”解時，常用作及物動詞，故不與介詞連用，上句中須去掉介詞for。例：

We should serve our country. (為……服務)

I am still waiting to be served. (接待)

He has served half his sentence. (服刑)

△短語serve for 表示的是“充當、用作、用……作;夠……用、適用于、對……合適。”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?

這房子可以滿足我的簡單需要，但對全家來說夠用嗎?

4. enter

典型錯誤：She entered into the house.

正確表達：enter表示“進來(去)”時后面不跟介詞。在非正式英語中多用come into和go into。例：

She entered the room without being noticed.

△ 短語enter into常用于正式場合，表示：

a. “開始討論、著手處理”。例：

Let’s not enter into details at this moment.

b. “積極參加、投入”。例：

We entered into the spirit of Christmas. 我們開始感受到了圣誕節的氣氛。

c. “開始、參與”(此時其后常接表“抽象概念的詞”。)例：

They entered into a contract/an agreement. 他們訂立了合同/達成了協議。

5. discuss

典型錯誤：Peter refused to discuss about the matter.

正確表達：discuss表“討論、談論”時是及物動詞，故上句中須去掉介詞about。例：

She has something of great importance to discuss with you.

They discussed whether they had done anything wrong.

6. follow

典型錯誤：The child followed after his mother up the stairs.

正確表達：follow作“跟隨;沿著(走);遵循;理解等”時，常為及物動詞。故上句中須刪除介詞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

典型錯誤：They didn’t return back home till nine o’clock.

正確表達：return不與back連用，故上句中須去掉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. 我突然回想起來最近在什么地方見過你。

8. repeat

典型錯誤：Please repeat that again.

正確表達：repeat不與again連用，故上句須去掉again。但可用say……again。例：

You can say that again!p副標題e

9. congratulate

典型錯誤：She congratulated them for what they had achieved.

正確表達：congratulate (祝賀、道賀)常與介詞on/upon連用。例：

We congratulated him on having passed the examination.

10. passed

典型錯誤：I past my driving test.

正確表達：動詞pass的一般過去時變化是規則的，即passed; 而past不是動詞形式，可作形容詞、名詞、介詞和副詞。故應將上句中的past改為passed。例：

I’ve been ill for the past two weeks.

The old man is living in the past. 這位老人現在生活在過去之中。

11. cross

典型錯誤：The soldiers acrossed the bridge by means of ladders.

正確表達：作介詞或副詞的across不能單獨作謂語，可將上句中的acrossed改為動詞crossed或went across。

12. during

典型錯誤：During you are away, I’ll be kind to him.

正確表達：during (在……內;在……時期中)是一介詞，故不能作關聯詞。上句須改為：While you are away, I’ll be kind to him. 例：

Not a word did they exchange during the meal.

13. between

典型錯誤：You’re to sit between Tom and I.

正確表達：介詞between(在……之間)后的代詞應用賓格，故上句應改為：

You’re to sit between Tom and me.

14. more

典型錯誤：My room is much more better than the one next door.

正確表達：上句中better已是形容詞比較級，故須去掉more。

15.upstairs

典型錯誤：We go to upstairs to bed.

正確表達：作副詞時，upstairs及downstairs前不用介詞，上句應改為：

We go upstairs to bed.

16. lately

典型錯誤：He got here five minutes lately.

正確表達：lately是指“最近(recently)”,而late作副詞時是表示“晚;到很晚”，故上句應改為：

He got here five minutes late.

Have you seen her lately?

△ 試比較以下含“形似意異”詞語的句子：

a. He works hard in school while his brother hardly ever reads a book.

在校他努力學習然而他弟弟幾乎不讀書。

b. Most of them, who were mostly friends of the manager, were saved in the fire.

他們中的大多數被從火災中救了出來，他們主要是經理的朋友。

c. Only when December draws near do I realize that it’s nearly Christmas.

只有當十二月臨近我才意識到幾乎已是圣誕節了。

17. price

典型錯誤：The owner charged an expensive price for his new flat.

正確表達：price常與high/reasonable/right/low 等連用，而expensive, cheap則常與表“物品”的名詞連用。例：

Loneliness is a high price to pay for independence in your old age.

孤寂是老年獨自生活要付出的高昂代價。

I can’t afford the car; it’s too expensive.

18. from place to place

典型錯誤：Fishes in the ocean are carried from places to places by tides.

正確表達：英語中通常講究一個平行結構原則：兩個相同的名詞放在一個平行結構里，名詞一般用單數且前通常不加冠詞。例：

face to face(面對面)

hand in hand(手牽手)

side by side (并肩)

shoulder to shoulder(并肩、協力)neck and neck(賽馬等)并駕齊驅、不分上下day by day(指漸進的過程)day after day(重復的單一的行動)

△ 但在諺語“以眼還眼 以牙還牙。”中則是：

an eye for an eye (and a tooth for a tooth)

19. key

典型錯誤：The key of success is preparation.

正確表達：key作“最重要的事;答案、解釋、說明等”解時，其后常與to連用，構成the key to sth. 例：

Here is a key to the grammar exercises.

20. what

典型錯誤：All what I am afraid of is their taking him to Paris.

正確表達：關系代詞型的what相當于the thing(s) that (which)，其前不能再用先行詞。上句可改為：

All that I am afraid of is their taking him to Paris. 或

What I am afraid of is their taking him to Paris.