<p>whats the difference between idiom errors and diction errors? what exactly is idiom and what exactly is diction? i dont get the difference</p>
<p>I believe diction errors are when you use the wrong word form (exact instead of exactly), while idiom is using the wrong preposition/infinitive to begin a prepositional phrase (move from instead of move towards).</p>
<p>Once again Wikipedia gives a really good overview… I learn something new every day… I had thought diction’s primary meaning was pronunciation (phonetics), but find that is the secondary meaning.</p>
<p>[Diction</a> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diction]Diction”>Diction - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Here is the page on idioms. I take the primary meaning to be: a phrase that has a distinct, separate meaning from the primary meaning of the words in the phrase. “Figure of speech”.</p>
<p><a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiom[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiom</a></p>
<p>Diction- word usage
Idiom- figure of speech</p>
<p>So an idiom error would be like in Anchorman when he kept saying “When in Rome…”, despite the fact that idiom didn’t apply there.
A diction error would be using the wrong word (“good” instead of “well”, etc.).</p>