No. Items
Omission of Helping Verb Sample
Error Reconstructions
B92 Whom __ the reporter
interviewing? 27
Whom is the reporter interviewing?
No. Items
Archi-form of Helping Verb Sample
Error Reconstructions
A101 What is your friends doing? What do your friend doing?
1, 26, 31 32
What are your friends doing?
B21 Where do you studying?
1 Where are you studying?
A22 Whom is studying with you Whom is you studying with?
Whom is study with you? 1, 11, 26,
31, 32 12
35 Whom are you studying
with?
B72 How do your friends writing
their tasks? 11, 12, 35
How are your friends writing their tasks?
B72 Which pen do you use?
What kind of pen do you use? 12
11, 26, 31, 32, 35
Which pen are you using?
B21 Where are you study?
What are you study? 8
35 Where are you studying?
No. Items
Archi-form of Verb Sample
Error Reconstructions
B91 What is your teacher do now? 31, 35
What is your teacher doing now?
A22 Whom is study with you? 31, 35
Whom are you studying with?
B72 Which pen did you use?
What kind of pen did you use?
8 31, 35
Which pen are you using?
B92 Who is the reporter interview
with? 8
Whom is the reporter interviewing with?
Based on the table 4.9 above the errors which the students made are the omission of the helping verb. They did not put auxiliary as a helping verb in
wh-question. The archi-form of helping verb is made because the students put the incorrect helping verb in the wh-question. The helping verb they use in the
sentence is not appropriate for the subject ot the tenses.
3. Simple Past Tense
The following table is the frequency of error which students made in simple past tense:
Table 4.10 The Frequency of Error in Making Simple Past Tense
Types of Error POS
FOE POE
Samples P
Omission Helping
Verb 27
28.7 15, 16, 25,
27, 29, 30, 36
18.9
Additi on
Double Marking
- -
- -
Regularization -
- -
- Simple
Addition -
- -
-
Mi sfor
mation Regularization
- -
- -
Archi-form Helping
Verb Verb
14 44
14.9 46.8
4, 8, 17, 26, 32
1, 2, 3, 4, 15, 16, 19, 20,
25, 27, 29, 35, 36
13.5 35.1
POC = Part of Sentence, FOE = Frequency of Error, POE = Percentage of Error, P = Percentage of Students.
Types of Error POS
FOE POE
Samples P
Mi sfor
mation Alternating
form -
- -
-
Miselection -
- -
- Misordering
Helping Verb
9 9.6
12, 14, 18 8.1
3 Types 2
94 100
22 Students 67.5
POS = Part of Sentence, FOE = Frequency of Error, POE = Percentage of Error, P = Percentage of Students.
Based on the table 4.8 in making wh-question in simple past tense, the students made three types of error, they are: omission, archi-form, and
misordering. There are 27 omissions of helping verb or in percentage 28.7 of the total errors, they are made by 7 students or 18.9 of the total students.
The archi-form of helping verb is made 14 times or in percentage 14.9 of the total errors, they are made by 5 students or in percentage 13.5 of the
total students. There are 44 archi-forms of verb or in percentage 46.8 of the total error, they are made by 13 students or in percentage 35.1 of the total
students. The misorderings of helping verb are made 9 times or in percentage 9.6 of the total errors and they are made by 3 students or 8.1 of the total
students. Based on the table above, It can be seen that there are 28 errors which made by 21 students, therefore there are 7 students who made two types
of error.
Table 4.11 The Errors of
Wh-Question in Simple Past Tense No.
Items Omission of Helping Verb
Sample Error
Reconstructions
A61 Why __ your friends not come last night?
16 Why
didn’t your friends come last night?
No. Items
Omission of Helping Verb Sample
Error Reconstructions
A81 Whose party __ you come yesterday?
30 Whose party did you come
yesterday? A91 How __ you go to school this
morning? 25, 29
How did you go to school this morning?
B51 Why __ China won the Badminton Championship?
Why __ China win the Badminton Championship?
15, 16, 25, 27, 29, 30,
36 22
Why did China win the Badminton Championship?
B51 Why __ China win the Badminton Championship?
22 Why did China win the
Badminton Championship? A62 Where __ you and your Dad
go fishing last week? 30
Where did you and your Dad go fishing last week?
A82 Whose gift __ you bought yesterday?
15, 16, 25, 27, 29, 36
Whose gift did you buy yesterday?
B52 Why __ Mia left her dictionary?
15, 16, 25, 27, 29, 30,
36 Why did Mia leave her
dictionary?
No. Items
Archi-form of Helping Verb Sample
Error Reconstructions
A61 Why your friend do not come last night?
Why do your friend didn’t
come last night? 4
17, 26, 32 Why did not your friend
come last night?
A91 How do you go to school this morning?
26, 8 How did you go to school
this morning? A62 Where are you and your
Father went fishing last week? Where do you and your Father
go fishing last week? 4, 32
17 Where did you and your
Father go fishing last week?
A82 Whose gift do you bought yesterday?
8 Whose gift did you bought
yesterday?
