有些省份的英语考试中，会考试改错题型。
短文改错对考生的要求较高，是对语言知识综合运用能力的考查，检测考生发现、判断、纠正文章错误的能力，进而考查学生的词法、句法及行文逻辑等方面的水平。然而改错题型丢分极多，很多考生该题感到束手无策。但是，如果解题时能从出题规律及破解题目关键两大处入手，此类题目就会迎刃而解。
出题规律及破解关键
专升本英语短文改错一般会在以下八个方面进行设题。
1. 动词：主要考查时态、主谓一致和固定搭配。例如：
①时态混用Then the trouble started. We can’t open the door. So we asked the policeman for help.(很显然此段的主时态是一般过去式，因此应把can’t改为couldn’t。)
②主谓不一致There were a football game on TV last Saturday evening.(a football game决定了谓语动词用单数，故应该把were改为was。)
③固定搭配 He had little money left, so he had to give up buy the computer. (give up doing sth.是固定用法，故动词buy应该改为buying。)
2. 名词：主要考查单复数混用。例如：Helen is seventeen year old. She is very busy.(表示“年龄多大了”应该为复数形式，故应把year改为years。)
3. 形容词/副词：主要考查两者之间是否混用。例如：
①副词代替正确形容词During the football season, Helen is much busier than usually.(很明显是“与平时相比较更忙”，因此需要把usually改为usual。)
②形容词代替正确副词As the time clock showed one minute and forty-two seconds left in the game, she began cheering excited, “Come on — get going!”(显然应把excited改为excitedly，用来修饰动词cheer。)
4. 介词：主要考查固定搭配，特别是动词和介词的搭配。例如：
①介词遗漏I’m sure you will get rid the sorrow and unhappiness caused by the disaster.(get rid of 是固定搭配，意为“摆脱，除去”。)
②介词多余My wife is also happy because of I have given up smoking.(这里显然是区分because of与because的用法。前者不能接句子，而后者充当连词可以接句子，故应该把of去掉。)
③介词错用(一般为固定搭配)I pick out her false hair and said, “Don’t be sad, Miss.”(pick out改为pick up。pick out挑选;pick up捡起。)
5. 连词：主要考查句子之间的逻辑关系。常考的三种关系主要是：转折 (but)、并列(and)和因果(because)。
例如：One day, my wife and I went shopping at a store. We drove the car but we had a lot of things to buy.(显然，句意为“我们开车去的原因是因为我们要买很多东西”，所以应该把but改为because / as / for。)

6. 句式：主要考查that与what或which / how与what之间的转换。这是短文改错的常考点。
例如：She never has enough time for that she wants to do.(句意为：她没有足够多的时间来做自己想做的事情。很明显应该把that改为what。)
7. 冠词：主要考查冠词是否多余或遗漏。例如：
①冠词多余So I went to sell newspapers after the school.(“放学后”应该用after school表示，故此处定冠词多余，应去掉the。)
②冠词遗漏As we all left home at early age, we met lots of problems in our daily life.(at an early age表示“很小的时候”，故early前应加不定冠词。)
8.代词：主要考查代词是否多余或遗漏，以及代词之间的混用。例如：
①代词多余Don’t lose your heart if you fail in the exam.(lose heart表示“泄气，丧失勇气”，而lose one’s heart to s b. / sth.表示“爱上，钟情于……”。根据语境，此处很明显是指“别泄气”，故应该把your去掉。)
②代词遗漏A teacher could make classes lively and interesting.(应该在classes前加his，表示“使他的课堂生动有趣”。)
③代词混用We were living in a big family. We treated each other as brothers and sisters. If any one of them had any difficulty, the other would help him or her out.(根据句意“我们生活在一个大家庭之中，彼此间相处如同兄弟姐妹。如果我们之中谁有困难，其他人就会帮助他/她解决困难”，所以应把them改为us，把other改为others。)