Common Chinese mistakes, with corrections
These are among the errors the Chinese checklist covers. Each line shows the mistake, the correction and the reason:
- 他跑的很快 → 他跑得很快 (得 links a verb to how it is done)
- 认真的学习 → 认真地学习 (地 links a description to the verb after it)
- 一个书 → 一本书 (books take the measure word 本)
- 我昨天没去了 → 我昨天没去 (没 is not used with a final 了)
- 我去北京明天 → 我明天去北京 (time words come before the verb)
- 在接再厉 → 再接再厉 (a wrong character in a set phrase)
- 我很好,谢谢. → 我很好,谢谢。 (Chinese text uses full-width punctuation)








