common-non-native-mistakes

name	common-non-native-mistakes
description	Recurring error patterns from non-native English speakers in developer contexts: article misuse, preposition confusion, tense mismatch, 'I am agree'-style anti-patterns, and other frequent L2 slips. Use when scanning for patterns a reader can map back to familiar mistakes rather than rediscover from first principles.
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Common Non-Native Mistakes

These patterns come from the legacy writing-guide plus widely-documented L2-English error categories (no invented rules). They concentrate on slips that slip past spellcheck and automated grammar checkers because every individual word is a real English word.

Article Slips

Wrong	Right	Why
"Fix bug in authentication"	"Fix the bug in authentication"	Specific bug → definite article
"Create a new the file"	"Create a new file"	Two determiners on the same noun
"I use the React"	"I use React"	Framework names take no article
"An useful tool"	"A useful tool"	u here is pronounced y, so a not an
"I have question"	"I have a question"	Countable singular noun needs a determiner

Test for a vs an: does the following word START with a vowel SOUND? If yes, . Otherwise . (, not , because URL starts with the consonant sound "y".)