Times

Spelling mistakes

• At this text I made a couple spellingmistakes: e.g.: planes instead of planes and ofcourse instead of of course, Brussel instead of Brussels. Parliamentelection instead of parliament election, Is no self-mutilating… instead of is not a self-mutilating. 

In the future I want to use a spellingcheck to prevent these mistakes. These mistakes are absolutely unnecessary.

Wrong word

• Opposed must be replaced by against, advanced by pushed back

I often use a thesaurus this gives me the opportunity to use lexical variation. However these examples made me aware that i not always choose the right words. Seeing this I now know that I must check out the words I use more intensively.

Tense

• e.g.: has problems / is having problems

As with the Brexit text I must check my use of tense. I often see that I used the wrong tense. This makes me aware that I really need to review the tenses again. I can not precisely say why i do it wrong so often. But it is an absolute trend.

Preposition

• I used at the other hand what must have been On the other hand.

Again a small preposition mistake. This error can easily be prevented. I keep repeating: check your work more than once!

Idiom

• Idiom mistake: What if it isn’t happy anymore.

This sentence was translated to literary. I could not really find a good translation. Normally I try to find a good translation, however i failed at this one. More research next time.

I comparison to the other newsarticle I must say I did a better job at this one text.