我的常见错误

常用

• 图的标题开头不要带the
• 句子开头的数字不能用阿拉伯数字
• 修饰形容词和动词用副词
• 因此是therefore不是therefor，therefor是个副词,作“为此”(for that, for this, for it)解,用于正式语体,尤其是法律文件中。

介词to, as， with, from， of，in，on

• similar to 而不是similar with, similar as
• compare to 不是compare with
• is equal to 不是 equal to
• reaches -18.5 mag不是reaches to -18.5 mag
• different from 不是different with
• limit studies to only .. 不是 limit studies only on...
• with a lower limit of the member galaxies 不是lower limit to the galaxies
• knowledge of the extinction 不是knowledge on the
• 被命名为 named John，不要named as John
• Our motivations for doing （不是of）
• A detailed study of ...(不是on)
• benchmarks in studies of (不是on）
• a plateau of 90 percent (of 不能少）

冠词 the

• in terms of 不是in the terms of
• inside radius of 100 arcsec 不是 inside the radius of 100 arcsec (体会这个100 arcsec不是特指）

单数，复数

• contamination 不可数 用contaminants
• at given luminosity (不是at a given)
• as a function of (function 可数）

动名词

• below 用following或者as follow代替
• with the use of 可用using 代替
• In observations 可用 using observations
• with the increase of 不是 with the increasing of

常用表达

• 小一个量级，正确的应为one order of magnitude smaller.
• a 和 b关系的指数 index relating a and b
• the fraction of A in B （不是of） is 0.9 (不能写成90 percent）
• chi-squared 不是chi square
• become consistent with 不需要become being consistent with
• 直接用consistent with 不要 in consistence with
• but not for 不是while it is not in
• with a peak at 不是 peaks at
• two time stronger than that of 用 twice that of 替代
• of high redshift objects 可写成at high redshift
• only use 写成 use only
• perform statistical tests to determine 代替 make statistical studies on
• good agreement --> good consistence
• because of --> due to
• therefore --> so that
• whereas --> while
• is also a key parameter --> also plays as a key parameter
• This result is driven by --> is due to
• despite 和 in spite of 通用，不用despite of
• 取得进展可用 advancement （可数，有褒义）,不要progress（进程的意思，中性）
• yet都用在否定句中，肯定句中用so far
• 限制在什么范围内 be restricted to be in the region (to be 不能省略）
• 观测时间很少：the amount of observing time is low 不要写成 the observing time is few

美式英语

• cannot --> can not
• halos-->haloes
• labeled 不是labelled
• modeling 不是modelling

排版

• signal-to-noise, power-law, model-predicted
• In this Letter, As we mentioned in the Introduction (注意单词首字母大写)
• five years 不要写成 5 years

ApJ

• K-S中间的横线是长横线$--$
• Equation (6)不是 Equ. 6， Figure 6不是 Fig. 6
• 7% 不是7 percent
• 7-yr 不是 7-year
• 章节小标题的单词的首字母都要大写
• 双引号，不是单引号