中學生英語學習常見錯誤一覽表2
［誤］ my school was quite close from my home.
［正］ my school was quite close to my home.
［析］ "與……接近"是close to…，例如：
he was close to fifty.
there is a busstop close to the station.
close shut turn
shut與close是同義詞，如close the door或shut the door. 但要講把某人關(guān)在門外時則只能用shut somebody out而不能用close，因shut語氣較強，并含有隔離之意。而turn off是指關(guān)上電視、電燈、煤氣之類，有切斷之意。
cloth
［誤］ the children wear very good cloth to go to school.
［正］ the children wear very good clothes to go to school.
［誤］ i need a lot of clothing.
i'm going to make a new cloth.
［正］ i need a lot of cloth.
i'm going to make a new dress.
［析］ cloth是"布"、"布料"，沒有復(fù)數(shù)形式。一塊布料是a piece of cloth, 而clothes統(tǒng)指衣服，是復(fù)數(shù)名詞，"一套衣服"要講a suit of clothes， 如果是"一件件衣服"應(yīng)講shirt, dress, sweater等。而clothing是衣物的總稱，是不可數(shù)名詞。例如：this clothing is needed in warm countries.her clothes are made of fine cloth.英語中的dress是指比較正式的服裝，如a school dress(校服)，a student dress(學生套裝)，a working dress(工作服)。
coffee
［誤］ please give me two waters.
［正］ please give me two coffees.
［正］ please give me two cups of water.
［析］ 雖然coffee, water, tea等都是物質(zhì)名詞，但是只有coffee可用coffees取代若干杯coffee,而其他的卻不行，其前要加a cup of或a glass of.
colour(color)
［誤］ colours of flowers are red, yellow and white.
［正］ flowers are red, yellow and white.
［析］ 中文的"花的顏色有紅色、黃色和白色"，若譯為英文colours of flowers are…，就顯得重復(fù)了。
［誤］ i like green colour.
［正］ i like green.
［正］ i like colour green.
［析］ colour green中的colour是green的同位語，所以這種說話方式英語是可以接受的。
come
［誤］ i came across with an old friend in the street yesterday.
［正］ i came across an old friend in the street yesterday.
［析］ come across是"偶然碰見、遇見"，要直接加賓語，如：i've just come across a beautiful poem in this magazine.
［誤］ where do you come from?
i come from the station.
［正］ where did you come from?
i came from the station.
［正］ where do you come from?
i come from china.
［析］ where do you come from?意為"你是什么地方的人?"而where did you come from?則是"你從何處來?"
［誤］ the stars are coming out from the cloud.
［正］ the stars are coming out of the cloud.
［析］ come out of意為"從……地方出來"。
come in come into enter
come in與come into的意義相同，但come into后面要加賓語，而come in后面不用賓語。如i found someone came into my room. the door opened and the child came in.