Preposition Use
介词用法
1. 让我来帮你完成工作吧。
Incorrect: Let me help you to do your work.
Correct: Let me help you with your work.
2. 我建议你去休个长假。
Incorrect: I recommend you to take a long vacation.
Correct: I recommend that you take a long vacation.
3. 过来。
Incorrect: Come to here.
Correct: Come here.
4. 太阳从东方升起。
Incorrect: The sun rises from the East.
Correct: The sun rises in the East.
5. 小偷是从窗户爬进来的。
Incorrect: The thief got in from the window.
Correct: The thief got in through the window.
6. 让我们从第10页开始。
Incorrect: Let's begin from page 10.
Correct: Let's begin at(on) page 10.
7. 我耐心有限。
Incorrect: There is a limit in my patience.
Correct: There is a limit to my patience.
8. 请在白线内等待。
Incorrect: Please wait inside the white line.
Correct: Please wait behind the white line.
9. 你家房子买了火险吗?
Incorrect: Is your house insured for fire?
Correct: Is your house insured against fire?
10. 我没地方住。
Incorrect: I have no house to live.
Correct: I have no house to live in.
11. 脸好脏!照照镜子。
Incorrect: What a dirty face! Look at the mirror.
Correct: What a dirty face! Look in the mirror.
12. 这是我房间门钥匙。
Incorrect: This is the key of my room.
Correct: This is the key to my room.
13. 我准备去上一个为期两年的英语课程。
Incorrect: I am going to take a two-year course of English.
Correct: I am going to take a two-year course in English.
14. 末班车11点开，现在已经快11点了，赶紧的!
Incorrect: The last bus leaves at eleven o'clock. It'sabout eleven now, Hurry!
Correct: The last bus leaves at eleven o'clock. It's nearly (almost) eleven now, Hurry!
15. 把手从电线末端挪开。
Incorrect: Leave your hand from the end of the wire.
Correct: Let go of the end of the wire.
16. 靠右走。
Incorrect: Keep the right.
Correct: Keep to the right.
17. 不关你的事。
Incorrect: It is not of only your business.
Correct: It is none of your business.
Conjunction Use
连词用法
1. 和我不一样，她对英语很精通。
Incorrect: Different from me, she is proficient in English.
Correct: Unlike me, she is proficient in English.
2. 莫妮卡，借我点钱吧，比方说500美元。
Incorrect: Lend me some money, for instance 500 dollars, Monika.
Correct: Lend me some money, say 500 dollars, Monika.
3. 去年夏天我本想去欧洲，但费用太高于是放弃了。
Incorrect: I wanted to go to Europe last summer, but it was too expensive so I gave upto go.
Correct: I wanted to go to Europe last summer, but it was too expensive so I gave up the idea.
4. 我就是这样做的。
Incorrect: This is the way how I did it.
Correct: This is how I did it. or This is the way I did it.
5. 我来这儿的路上遇到了交通事故，所以迟到了。
Incorrect: There was a traffic accident on my way here. It is why I was late.
Correct: There was a traffic accident on my way here. That is why I was late.
6. 他们不理解我的想法。
Incorrect: They didn't understand my mind.
Correct: They didn't understand what I was thinking.
7. 无论是他们还是我都不对这个错误负责。
Incorrect: Neither they nor I are to blame for this mistake.
Correct: Neither they nor I am to blame for this mistake.