The most common spelling mistakes

spelling errors

Imagine that you just did your resume. Or a cover letter. Proud, you send it to the person responsible for selection because you consider that you have the profile they are looking for. The person who receives it, reads your resume and is impressed. It is just what they were looking for. So, proceed to read the letter and… the following is a message thanking you for your candidacy but declining to offer you a job. What happened? Often, spelling mistakes are made without realizing it, and they can be having or not having a job; to pass or not a subject; or even giving a good image.

In the old days, those who were really considered "writers" knew how to write and never had a misspelling. But today you can find books published, either by the same author or by publishers, that have common spelling errors. And what are these? Well today we talk about all of them. This way you will learn not to commit them!

Common Spelling Errors: Don't Make Them!

Common Spelling Errors: Don't Make Them!

Whether in a job, an exam, a cover letter or in any self-respecting text, if you do not want to give a bad image, you not only have to take care of the details of the paper, the way it is written or the text. Also that this one does not have spelling errors.

And, for that, you must know what are the usual ones that are committed so that it does not happen to you. So take note.

The separating comma

This is a very common mistake. Although it is more normal to see it in texts written by Latin Americans, the truth is that in Spain we are also catching this mania, and it must be eradicated as it may. From a young age they teach us that sentences have a subject and a predicate. They are, in a way, a couple. And many insist on separating them with a comma.

For example:

The recipe for roscón de nata is one of the best in Spain.

The phrase is beautiful. Except for that separating comma that kills the whole. The right thing?

The roscón de nata recipe is one of the best in Spain.

No commas. Because you cannot separate a subject from a predicate, it is something that is wrong.

Where is the tilde?

Another of the common spelling errors when writing is to ignore that the pasts have accents. You are right. Also, you have to remember that verbs in the past tense are usually acute words because they end with the accent on the last syllable. And we already know that acute words always have an accent if they end in -n, -s, or vowel. Thus: he looked, blinked, I spoke, I kissed, I nodded, I subjugated ... they will have an accent. FOREVER.

The fact that he will throw you out

Fun right? But maybe it's not so much if it means you have a job or not. Because yes, it seems that "done" and "done" are the same, but in reality they are not.

For example:

Homework done / Homework done

The only thing that differentiates these two sentences is the "h" (and the one missing from "echo"), right? However, the meaning of both sentences are different.

  • On the one hand, "Homework done" means that you have finished a task that you had, that is, of the verb to do.
  • On the other hand, "I miss my homework" means you have "thrown away" your homework. In other words, that you have "thrown" them in the trash, that you have thrown them ...

As you can see, it does not mean the same. And yet it is one of the most common spelling mistakes made.

Spelling errors: Above all / Above all

Spelling errors: Above all / Above all

Before, the RAE allowed you to wear the overcoat, because it understood that it should be written together. Now, you have to write it separately. Yes why the overcoat is actually a synonym for coat. And if you use it in the phrase, for example:

I especially like vanilla ...

People will think that you have a vanilla coat, but not that you want to indicate that you especially like the vanilla coat.

So whenever you want to put anything that is not a synonym for coat, it will go separate.

The aside that does not go "from part to part"

Another of the common spelling errors, and in fact it is seen even in already established writers, is to write separately; that is to say "apart." As well, Although the word means "separate", the truth is that written should put everything together.

Now, there are other "apart" that maybe they are separated, but because the word itself does not mean the same as the separate word. They are two words that act on their own.

Spelling mistakes: Why, why, why, why

We have not stuck, but there are actually four reasons, or why, or why. And each one is different and therefore its use is in a certain way. How do you know which one to use? Well:

  • Why: It is usually used in interrogative sentences, but it does not mean that you always have to use question marks to put it, it can also be indirect. For example: Why haven't you called me? / I want to know why you haven't called me.
  • Because: is usually the answer to the above. Why have you done a thing? Because ... What it does is make sense of a phrase that is going to explain something.
  • Why: this is always usually accompanied by a specific or indeterminate article. The why, a why ... And what does it mean? Well, you could change it for "the reason." For example: I do not know the reason for his attitude (I do not know the reason for his attitude).
  • Why: As we told you before, with apart and apart, why apart and without accentuation refers to two different words that act differently than we think.

Spelling mistakes: The "spare" point after a question mark or exclamation point

The "leftover" point after a question mark or exclamation point

Surely you have noticed this more than once. Or you have done it yourself. It is about putting a sentence between questions or between exclamations and just after closing them, place a period. Such that:

Where do you say it's going to rain?

Oh my God, how is the girl !.

Well, you know that it is a serious misspelling. Because the very point of the final question mark and final exclamation already acts as a period. No need to put more. However, Another of the great problems that arise is when, in a sentence, a question mark or exclamation is put and it begins with a capital letter because that starting point is believed to be a full stop. Something like that:

I do, but why do I have to wear this?

Again we find one of the most common spelling errors, because in this case, that period of ¿or of ¡does not mean a full stop. It is a point without more, it does not act so that you have to put capital letters.

So, it would be: Yes I want, but why do I have to wear this?

And that's it the last straw would be to commit "two in one":

I do, but why do I have to wear this?

So write it down well. This is NOT done.


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  1.   Gustavo Woltmann said

    A great article. I have made several errors, the one with the commas and the last one of the periods, thank you very much for the correction.
    -Gustavo Woltmann.

  2.   Ricardo VMB said

    The subject of question marks and exclamation marks in the middle of a sentence is interesting. I have read in another spelling book that to write with a lower case after a question mark or exclamation mark, you had to use a comma. Example: I do, but why do I have to wear that?

    Shouldn't they have used a tilde in the "yes"? Because it is affirmative, not conditional and in the examples they have given us they have written it without an accent mark.