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title: "Free Common Mistakes by Native English Speaker Generator - AgentDock"
description: "Explain the English-habit mistakes in a French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Russian, or Japanese sentence that generic grammar checkers miss because they look grammatically correct."
url: "https://agentdock.ai/prompt-library/education/language/common-mistakes-by-native-english-speaker-generator"
docs_index: /llms.txt
---

# Common Mistakes by Native English Speaker Generator

Explain the English-habit mistakes in a French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Russian, or Japanese sentence that generic grammar checkers miss because they look grammatically correct.

Category: Language

## Prompt template

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Some mistakes aren't random. They're the specific, predictable errors that show up because English works one way and the target language works another, and a learner's brain defaults to the English pattern under pressure. A generic grammar checker often can't catch these, since the sentence is grammatically well-formed, just built on an assumption that doesn't hold outside English. This tool checks for exactly that category, the mistake pattern, not just the sentence in front of it.

My sentence or sentences are [MY_SENTENCES].

Language is [LANGUAGE:select:French,Italian,German,Portuguese,Russian,Japanese].

Check for [MISTAKE_TYPE:select:False cognates and false friends,Literal word-for-word translation patterns,Wrong preposition after a verb,Missing or misapplied grammatical markers English doesn't have,All of the above].

Scan [MY_SENTENCES] for the English-habit mistakes an English speaker specifically tends to make in [LANGUAGE], based on [MISTAKE_TYPE]. For each one found, quote the exact word or phrase, explain the English assumption behind it, and give the correct version alongside a short note on why that assumption doesn't transfer. Distinguish clearly between an outright grammar error and something that's technically correct but sounds like a direct translation to a native speaker's ear, since the second category rarely gets flagged anywhere else and is often the harder habit to break.

If a word triggers a false cognate check, name the English word it resembles and what it actually means, so the trap is visible instead of implied. Close by naming which single English habit shows up most in this set, since that's the pattern worth watching for consciously in the next thing you write, not any one individual mistake.
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## Variables

- My Sentences (text, required)
- Language (select, required) — options: French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese
- Mistake Type (select, required) — options: False cognates and false friends, Literal word-for-word translation patterns, Wrong preposition after a verb, Missing or misapplied grammatical markers English doesn't have, All of the above

Tags: education, l1 interference, false cognates, grammar mistakes, language errors

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