Common Mistakes :  Born

verb

.BAD: My name is Ali Sariat and I born in Tehran

.GOOD: My name is Ali Sariat and I was born in Tehran

be born

.Do you realize that a child is born every few seconds

.The baby was born in the middle of the night

.It was the first time I’d actually watched a child being born

.BAD: I have been born in a town just outside Paris

.GOOD: I was born in a town just outside Paris

(‘Use ‘I was born’, ‘They were born’, etc (NOT ‘I have been born’ or ‘I am born

.I’ll never forget the day when the seven puppies were born

.BAD: He was born in a Catholic family

.GOOD: He was born into a Catholic family

(be born into a particular type of family, world, etc (NOT in

.She was born into a world that was on the brink of war