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According to a 2016 study conducted by Wordvice (and a dataset of 9,000 papers and 12,000,000), the most common English writing errors are determiners, preposition use, and parallelism, among a few key others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How did we conduct this experiment? We analyzed your writing patterns and habits (the good, bad, and the ugly), came up with a short list of the most common English language errors we found in your papers, and put them in this FREE downloadable report! 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