According to research, India has the second-highest number of English speaking population in the world. It is a second language for the vast majority of people. In a country where many regional languages are used, a lot of errors creep into the grammar and vocabulary of an average English speaker in India.

Writing and speaking in English as a non-native speaker has its own set of problems. Grammatical errors come in many forms and can easily confuse and obscure meaning. Some common errors are with prepositions most importantly, subject-verb agreement, tenses, punctuation, spelling and other parts of speech.

Prepositions are tricky, confusing and significant in sentence construction.

Here are some English grammar mistakes Indians commonly make:
Incorrect: Myself I am Suresh babu.
Correct: I am Suresh babu.
NOTE: While introducing oneself, it is usually observed that the users mix up both the possessive pronoun ‘myself’ and the subject pronoun ‘I’.

Incorrect: I am having four brothers and three sisters.
Correct: I have four brothers and three sisters.
NOTE: Present continuous tense cannot be used for pragmatic situations such as this. Simple present tense should be used.

Incorrect: He does not have a laptop.
Correct: He does not have a laptop.
NOTE: Do should not be used after the subject pronoun (He, She, It).

Incorrect: Does she has a car?
Correct: Does she have a car?
NOTE: The helping verb does is used at the beginning and the main verb has denoted possession or ownership.

Incorrect: (Question) “Today office is there?” “
Correct: Is the office there today?
NOTE: The question always begins with the Helping verb eg. Do, Does, Is Am, Are, etc.

Incorrect: have visited Niagara Falls last weekend. Correct: I visited Niagara Falls last weekend.
NOTE: Something which is not done recently does not use the present perfect tense but the past tense.

Incorrect: The woman who works here is from Japan.
Correct: The woman who works here is from Japan.
NOTE: Which refers to the object in a sentence which is a non-living thing, who refers to the subject in the sentence.

Incorrect: She’s married to a dentist.
Correct: She is married to a dentist.
NOTE: “To” as a preposition indicates the relationship.

Incorrect: She was boring in class.
Correct: She was bored in the class
NOTE: Here the bored has been used as this is a temporary feeling for a particular situation.

Incorrect: I must call him immediately.
Correct: I must call him immediately.
NOTE: We use must as a modal when something is necessary to use in the present or future. The preposition “to” is not used after the modal except for few.

Incorrect: Every student like the teacher.
Correct: Every student likes the teacher.
NOTE: Students refer to more than one student.” Every” refers to one thing of many objects/person out of the collection of objects/ people

Incorrect: Although it was raining, we had a picnic.
Correct: Although it was raining, we had a picnic.
NOTE: ‘Although’ and ‘but’ are two subordinating conjunctions which cannot be used in the same sentence.