COMMON ENGLISH GRAMMAR MISTAKES  9) Misplacing your modifiers Language would be pretty dull without words to add a bit of extra flavour to sentences and descriptive speech. This is exactly where modifiers come in. With modifiers, “the tiger” can become “the fearsome tiger,” “the sunrise,” can become “the beautiful sunrise,” and so on. The issue is that these modifiers need to be placed very close to the word they’re modifying, or else the meaning falls apart. “Misplacing your modifiers” means that you are putting these modifiers too far away from the terms they are meant to be modifying, in your sentence. The result is confusion. In fact, misplaced modifiers can even completely change the meaning of your sentence in unintended ways. Here’s an example of a misplaced modifier: “He almost walked for the entire day.” And here’s how this example would read with the modifier in the right place: “He walked for almost the entire day.” In the example with the misplaced modifier, it is not clear if he “crawled”, “ran slowly”, or simply “thought about walking” for the entire day. In the correct example, the meaning is clear. 10) Falling into pronoun disagreement A common grammatical mistake for English learners is for their pronouns and nouns to disagree, when dealing with singular and plural examples. The straightforward rule is that singular pronouns must go with singular nouns, and plural pronouns must go with plural nouns. So, for example: “Every boy must sign in when they arrive” is incorrect. “Boy” is singular, and “they” is plural. The correct phrasing here would be: “Every boy must sign in when he arrives.” Grammar and punctuation are essential in the English language and gaining confidence in how to avoid any grammatical errors is a valuable part of your learning journey.  You should practice developing your grammar daily; it will help you to become a confident writer with a firm gras