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1 Omission Error Omission errors are characterized by the absence of items that must be
present in a well-formed utterance. There are some errors of omitting items in Gerund as subject found in data.
a. This table shows the samples of omission of “ing”
Students’ Initial
Error Sentences Reconstruction
DRN GS
1
Swim
is healthy sport
2
We Walk all
the way home made us tired
Swimming is healthy sport.
Walking all the way
home made us tired
Based on the sample above, it can be seen that the omission of “ing” is not correct. The omission error happens because the students omitted the “ing”, it must
appear in those sentences. A sentence must consist of at least a subject and predicate. There are no subjects in the subjects in the sentences above, but verbs. A subject must be
a nounpronoun. The correct subject from in the sentences above is by adding suffix-ing to the verbs in front of the sentences in order that they become noun and can be used as
subjects of sentence. b.
Omission of “to” This table shows the sample of omission of “to”
Students’ Initial
Error Sentences Reconstruction
EE 3
X: “What did he deny?”
Y: To stealing the wallet
X: “What did he deny?” Y: stealing the wallet
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Based on the sample above, the type of error is omission because the students omitted “to” that must appear in these sentences. The omitting of “to” in those sentences
is not proper to the sentence structure. I think that the students made error because they have not understood yet the formula of gerund.
c. Omission of Consonant Letter “m”
This table shows the samples of omission of consonant letter “m”
Students’ Initial
Error Sentences Reconstruction
RAS 4
Swiming is healthy
sport.
Swimming is healthy sport.
Based on the samples above, the type of errors is omission because the students omitted “m” that must appear in those sentences. The omitting of “m” in that sentence is
not proper to the sentence structure. The writer thinks that the students made errors because they have not understood yet the
formula of “ing” in certain verb. 2 Addition errors
Addition errors are the opposite of mission errors. They are characterized by the presence of an item which must not be present in a well-formed utterance.
a. Addition of “to infinitive”
This table shows the sample of addition of “to infinitive”
Students’ Initial
Error Sentences Reconstruction
FS 5
To walking all the way
home made us tired.
Walking all the way home made us tired.
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Based on the samples above, addition errors occur because the students added “to” that must not appear in those sentences.
b. Addition of “to be”
This table shows the sample of “to be”
Students’ Initial
Error Sentences Reconstruction
MJ 6
X: “What did he deny?”
Y: he had been stealing the wallet
X: “What did he deny?” Y: stealing the wallet
Based on the samples above, it can be seen that the students added to be “had
been” in those sentence. It must not appear in those sentence. c. Ad
dition of “to infinitive” This table shows the sample of addition of “to infinitive”
Students’ Initial
Error Sentences Reconstruction
RFCS
FS 7
Would you mind to putting you pet snake
somewhere else 8
X: “What did he deny?”
Y: to stealing the wallet Would you mind putting
