English Sentence Structure Data Presentation

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4.1.2.4 English Sentence Structure

The following were errors on the category of the English sentences structures which were 10.7 . Some errors corresponded to English sentences structures are seen in Table 4.12. Table 4.12 Errors Belonging to Incorrect Formation of English Sentence Structure 5A i It Ø usually in a formal … formal occasion. ii Where did Ø exactly take place? iii Has everyone got Ø? 5Bi What is the examples, Tania? iii So he gets a room with two double beds. iv It’s so very difficult right to remember all the points? Fundamentally, errors in English sentence structure were due to three major causes. The first was missing parts i.e. predicate be missing as in 5i, surrogate subject it missing as in 5Aii, and object missing as in 5Aiii, the second was simple predicate misformation, and the last is reduplication of parts. The three examples 5Ai, 5Aii, 5Aiii showed a missing of descriptive contents in a clause. The simple predicate be missing took the largest number of errors. Be i.e. is, am, are is popularly known as auxiliary or helping verb to always exist with the main verbs; though its function is essential, it has no significant meaning. Consequently, the respondents tended to ignore the function of be as verbs, moreover if it was used in a complex utterances. The second is a misuse of are for is , or vice versa, as in example 5Bi. The error in predicate: be either is or are is a global error as it affects the entire meaning of the sentence. As in example 5Bi, the reader might be confused to interpret the utterance, whether the respondent asked for only a single example or more than one example by the present use of is 62 and examples. In some situation, this category of error may lead to ambiguity. This means that the wrong form of predicate can cause confusion for the listeners. The last errors were reduplication of parts; this includes double markers of adjectives as in 5Biii, and repetition of adverb of extent as in 5Biv. In this case, the respondents at some moments added another element to mean the same. This is called reduplication. One example to represent those three is the use of two adjectives to mean the same. The respondents used the words two and double consecutively to refer to the same noun. In this case, double has indirectly means ‘two’. Hence, the respondent should focus to use two beds or double beds instead of two double beds.

4.1.2.5 Transformations