Common Mistakes : Aim

Aim – Verb

BAD: He was aiming a gun against me

GOOD: He was aiming a gun at me

BAD: These programmes are aimed to a very wide audience

GOOD: These programmes are aimed at a very wide audience

aim sth at sb/sth : ‘Each ball seemed to be aimed at my head.’ This new dictionary is aimed at intermediate learners of English

Aim – Noun

BAD: Her lifelong aim was to learn to fly

GOOD: Her lifelong ambition was to learn to fly

BAD: I started to learn English with the aim to become a teacher

GOOD: I started to learn English with the aim of becoming a teacher

with the aim of doing sth : I originally went out to the Far East with the aim of setting up my own import-export business