The Most Common Mistakes in English

Name: The Most Common Mistakes in English
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Improve your grammar, vocab, and conversational skills by avoiding the most common mistakes

Created byDave Skypelessons

Last updated 4/2026

English

What you'll learn

Gain an intricate and practical understanding of various aspects of English grammar
Understand and avoid the most common mistakes with tenses, prepositions, and articles
Understand and avoid the most common mistakes with gerunds, infinitives, and modals
Understand and avoid the most common mistakes with word order, conditionals, and vocabulary
Gain a working knowledge of how English is spoken by the natives
Fluently use a wide variety of complex sentences

Course content

12 sections • 98 lectures • 25h 40m total length

The Most Common Mistakes with Tenses18:45
The Most Common Mistakes with Tenses
The Most Common Mistakes with Tenses 213:35
The Most Common Mistakes with Tenses 2
The Most Common Mistakes with Tenses 316:15
The Most Common Mistakes with Tenses 3
The Most Common Mistakes with Tenses 414:32
The Most Common Mistakes with Tenses 4
The Most Common Mistakes with Tenses 516:58
The Most Common Mistakes with Tenses 5
The Most Common Mistakes with Tenses 617:21
The Most Common Mistakes with Tenses 6
The Most Common Mistakes with Tenses 718:17
The Most Common Mistakes with Tenses 7
The Most Common Mistakes with Tenses 821:24
The Most Common Mistakes with Tenses 8
The Most Common Mistakes with Tenses 916:27
The Most Common Mistakes with Tenses 1012:38
The Most Common Mistakes with Irregular Verbs27:10

The Most Common Mistakes with Vocabulary 114:32
The Most Common Mistakes with Vocabulary 1
The Most Common Mistakes with Vocabulary 214:00
The Most Common Mistakes with Vocabulary 2
The Most Common Mistakes with Vocabulary 318:43
The Most Common Mistakes with Vocabulary 3
The Most Common Mistakes with Vocabulary 410:13
The Most Common Mistakes with Vocabulary 4
The Most Common Mistakes with Vocabulary 516:17
The Most Common Mistakes with Vocabulary 5
The Most Common Mistakes with Vocabulary 614:19
The Most Common Mistakes with Vocabulary 6
The Most Common Mistakes with Vocabulary 712:18
The Most Common Mistakes with Vocabulary 7
The Most Common Mistakes with Vocabulary 816:17
The Most Common Mistakes with Vocabulary 8
The Most Common Mistakes with Vocabulary 914:02
The Most Common Mistakes with Vocabulary 9
The Most Common Mistakes with Vocabulary 1016:21
The Most Common Mistakes with Vocabulary 10
The Most Common Mistakes with Vocabulary 1113:20
The Most Common Mistakes with Vocabulary 11
The Most Common Mistakes with Vocabulary 1222:18
The Most Common Mistakes with Vocabulary 12
The Most Common Mistakes with Vocabulary 1315:29
The Most Common Mistakes with Vocabulary 1413:23
The Most Common Mistakes with Vocabulary 1513:39
The Most Common Mistakes with Vocabulary 1614:48
The Most Common Mistakes with Vocabulary 1712:34
The Most Common Mistakes with Vocabulary 1812:53

The Most Common Mistakes with Prepositions 116:50
The Most Common Mistakes with Prepositions 1
The Most Common Mistakes with Prepositions 29:46
The Most Common Mistakes with Prepositions 2
The Most Common Mistakes with Prepositions 316:13
The Most Common Mistakes with Prepositions 3
The Most Common Mistakes with Prepositions 414:23
The Most Common Mistakes with Prepositions 4
The Most Common Mistakes with Prepositions 512:09
The Most Common Mistakes with Prepositions 5
The Most Common Mistakes with Prepositions 612:20
The Most Common Mistakes with Prepositions 6
The Most Common Mistakes with Prepositions 712:15
The Most Common Mistakes with Prepositions 812:52
The Most Common Mistakes with Prepositions 99:14
The Most Common Mistakes with Prepositions 1014:13

The Most Common Mistakes with Articles and Countability 115:28
The Most Common Mistakes with Articles and Countability 1
The Most Common Mistakes with Articles and Countability 215:39
The Most Common Mistakes with Articles 2
The Most Common Mistakes with Articles and Countability 317:47
The Most Common Mistakes with Articles and Countability 3
The Most Common Mistakes with Articles and Countability 417:37
The Most Common Mistakes with Articles and Countability 4
The Most Common Mistakes with Articles 521:39
The Most Common Mistakes with Articles 5
The Most Common Mistakes with Articles 619:41
The Most Common Mistakes with Articles 6
The Most Common Mistakes with Articles 721:05
The Most Common Mistakes with Articles 7
The Most Common Mistakes with Articles 823:46
The Most Common Mistakes with Articles 8
The Most Common Mistakes with Articles 915:24
The Most Common Mistakes with Articles 1024:09

The Most Common Mistakes with Gerunds, Infinitives, and Reporting Verbs 113:42
The Most Common Mistakes with Gerunds, Infinitives, and Reporting Verbs 1
The Most Common Mistakes with Gerunds, Infinitives, and Reporting Verbs 221:20
The Most Common Mistakes with Gerunds, Infinitives, and Reporting Verbs 2
The Most Common Mistakes with Gerunds, Infinitives, and Reporting Verbs 312:07
The Most Common Mistakes with Gerunds, Infinitives, and Reporting Verbs 3
The Most Common Mistakes with Gerunds, Infinitives, and Reporting Verbs 423:55
The Most Common Mistakes with Gerunds, Infinitives, and Reporting Verbs 4
The Most Common Mistakes with Gerunds, Infinitives, and Reporting Verbs 518:12
The Most Common Mistakes with Gerunds, Infinitives, and Reporting Verbs 5
The Most Common Mistakes with Gerunds, Infinitives, and Reporting Verbs 612:10
The Most Common Mistakes with Gerunds, Infinitives, and Reporting Verbs 6

Requirements

Hard working pre-intermediate students welcome, but the course is aimed at intermediate to advanced level
A working knowledge of pre-intermediate English is required
A passionate yearning to never stop learning is desired

Description

This course includes the following resources:

Almost 100 lectures on common mistakes made by English learners (British teacher, 25 years' TEFL experience)
Lectures cover the most typical mistakes with tenses, vocabulary, prepositions, modals, articles, countability, word order, gerunds, infinitives, conditionals, and pronunciation
After each lecture, a quiz follows which tests your understanding of the lesson, helping you avoid the most common mistakes, and thereby improving your conversational skills
Ask me questions on those topics which cause the most confusion, and I answer all your questions within 24 hours on the Q and A section. I will be with you at every step of this course
Lifetime membership (more lessons and resources added every month)

By the end of the course, you will have picked up a practical knowledge of how English is actually spoken by the natives; you will be able to use a wide variety of complicated grammar (conditionals, tenses, articles, prepositions) spontaneously and fluently; you will gain a deeper appreciation of collocations and a wider vocabulary. The topics covered on this course would be extremely useful for anyone taking TOEFL, IELTS, FCE, CAE, or CPE. I am a native British teacher with more than 20 years' teaching experience, and more than 10 years' experience of making video lessons. The lessons on my YouTube channel have received more than 10 million views.

Who this course is for:

Intermediate to Advanced Learners of English as a Second Language
Grammar Enthusiasts
Language Enthusiasts

The Most Common Mistakes in English

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Course content

The Most Common Mistakes with Tenses11 lectures • 3hr 13min

The Most Common Mistakes with Conditionals2 lectures • 35min

The Most Common Mistakes with Vocabulary18 lectures • 4hr 25min

The Most Common Mistakes with Prepositions10 lectures • 2hr 10min

The Most Common Mistakes with Articles and Countability10 lectures • 3hr 12min

The Most Common Mistakes with Gerunds, Infinitives, and Reporting Verbs6 lectures • 1hr 41min

The Most Common Mistakes with Modal Verbs2 lectures • 31min

The Most Common Mistakes with Word Order5 lectures • 1hr 16min

The Most Common Mistakes with Pronunciation6 lectures • 1hr 42min

The Most Common Mistakes in Written Work7 lectures • 1hr 56min

Requirements

Description

Who this course is for: