12 Common Errors in Academic English – and how to fix them!

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❎️ His performance is not up to snuff
✅️ His performance is not satisfactory

❎️ Our teacher is under the weather so we have a substitute
✅️ Our teacher is sick so we have a substitute

❎️ Let me give you my two cents worth
✅️ Let me give you my opinion

Say eventually instead of sooner or later. Sooner or later is a cliché.

Hubby is informal slang. Consider using the word husband instead.

❎️ My hubby is taking me to dinner tonight
✅️ My husband is taking me to dinner tonight

❎️ My teacher chewed me out on account of I acted out in class
✅️ My teacher scolded me because I misbehaved in class

❎️ The picnic was called off on account of rain
✅️ The picnic was cancelled because of rain

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Hmmm, I don't know about point # 11... How about if the writer or speaker has conducted original research?

Dear Rebecca, could you explain the use of single quotation marks and normal ones, fairly common in older academic texts the use of single ones and they do express a useful distinction when normal ones feel too bulky. Best regards Chris

Thank you very much Miss, i learnt lots of things. You know, i have got a question and request as well. how can we differentiate the vocabularies that we use in our daily life?

I mean that there are thousands of words which have the same meaning. But which ones are academic? And which ones are not ?

Please, let me know

great .. writing comes in the center .. pl see

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What's the difference between error and mistake?

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Rebecca is a very nice teacher. I am a postgraduate, and I am preparing myself for writing an Engligh paper. This lesson is very good for me.

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Thank you for the amazing lecture, I have an upcoming essay and I will definitely be using these tips

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It is very helpful. Thank you

Great. It was a new piece of information.

All of these rules are more or less justified, besides rule number 10. I see no reason why to insist on this rule unless your goal is to be cocky.
A good sign of intelligence is to describe a complicated thing in a simple manner. How can one describe something in this way if there is an unwritten rule to overly complicate sentences in order to allow other colleges or whoever to cover up their lack of expertise?

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By the way, I wonder why we don't just learn the formal and correct Academic English?

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