Sentence examples for the most common errors from inspiring English sources

A mis-sent message is one of the most common errors in the world.

Here are some of the most common errors that golfers make, courtesy of the veteran caddies at Sleepy Hollow Country Club.

When a professor of English recently compared the grammar-checking features in Word and WordPerfect, which is owned by Corel, he found that Word 2000's grammar checker was unable to identify any of the most common errors.

Engineers at places like Microsoft catalogued the most common errors that people made, such as doubled letters and transpositions ("poeple"), and built upon these patterns to make educated guesses about users' intentions.

The figures, published by privacy and civil liberties campaign group Big Brother Watch after a freedom of information request, showed the most common errors involved information being disclosed by local police forces or the police national computer.

Showing off (31 per cent) and not acting interested or engaging with the interviewer (30 per cent) were also among the most common errors made by job seekers, according to the survey.

The most common error at this stage is tearing a hole in the dura.

Indeed, for most of them, the most common error is to eat too much.

What is the most common error made by inexperienced bridge players?

The most common error, which some 2,000 solvers fell into, was thinking the key went in a SLOT, represented by the first four letters of SLOTTED (69A).

So there you have it: the use of the wrong word jumped three spots to become the most common error in students' papers; misspelling, which didn't even place in the top twenty in 1988, jumped to number five.