Although native English speakers are intimately familiar with the frequent and often quite eccentric exceptions to the English language, Writing
those who are learning English as a second language (ESL) can experience a great number of quandaries. To make matters worse, a great deal of these so-called writing quandaries will usually only reveal themselves through the medium of writing--otherwise, non-native speakers are sometimes fortunate enough to glide over them without error. To preempt the understandable difficulties that so many ESL students will encounter, let’s take a look at some of the most notorious writing problems in a second language acquisition of English.