Mistakes regarding english
One of the reasons to write this wiki is to practice english. I'm keeping in here a list of common doubts and mistakes that very often I make or have.
I'm going to draw a parallel here between admission exams and the certificate of proficiency in english. Scoring high on admission exams does not mean that you are better than people who score low. It means that you answered more questions right. The same happens with certificates of language. The certificate of proficiency is an exam and passing at it with a high score does not mean that you are better than somebody else who passed with a lower score. I once had a teacher of english who had the perfect score on the proficiency test and she told in a class that she could not communicate with native speakers unless the speaker was an old person.
Years ago I was thinking on that certificate of proficiency. But over time I began to question what I'd do with it. In the beginning my goal was to have it as it's a pre-requisite to do postgrad abroad in many places. As it turned out, I'm already writing and reading way more that I'd ever write or read to prepare for that exam. In addition, I dropped out of undergrad. I mean, there are stories out there of taxi drivers who learned english without attending any school of english. What would a certificate mean for a taxi driver?
Grammar
In / At / On the plane?. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartesian_coordinate_system Seems to be "in the plane"
You look at the Cartesian plane
"Because of" vs "Due to" https://web.ku.edu/~edit/because.html
The function is going to zero because of ...
The function's behaviour is due to ...
Into / In something
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/grammar/british-grammar/in-into https://www.grammarly.com/blog/into-vs-in-to/ https://www.thoughtco.com/in-and-into-1692749
Level surface vs. Surface level
The inverted order of the words is caused by the translation from another language to english.
On to / Onto
https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/definitions/on-to-vs-onto/
Do / Does
I've lost count of how many times I confuse the two. Even english speakers confuse it all the time!
http://www.differencebetween.net/language/grammar-language/difference-between-do-and-does-2/ https://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/do-or-does
Larger / Greater / Bigger / Higher / Wider
According to wikipedia, a square is larger than another.
Would have
https://ludwig.guru/s/that+would+have+otherwise+been
View / See / Picture
Most of the time we can use either interchangeably.
Issue / Problem
Infinite / Infinity
Infinite is an adjective, a quality. Infinity is a noun, a quantity, object or something that has no end or limits.
