Omission Additions Types of Errors

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5. Types of Errors

Dulay et al 1982 explain the types of errors. These theories of error type underline this error analysis. They are presented as follows.

a. Omission

Dulay et al 1982 stated that omission happens because of the absence of an item that must appear in well-formed utterance. Some morphemes are potential to be omitted in writing. They are two kinds of morpheme, content morpheme and grammatical morpheme. The phenomenon that is often seen is the omission of the grammatical morphemes. The grammatical morphemes are noun and verb inflections the s- in birds, articles a, an, the, verb auxiliaries is, will, can, is, was, am, etc , and prepositions in, on, under,etc.

b. Additions

Dulay et al 1982 stated that addition errors are the opposite of omissions. In this type or errors, the errors are characterized by the presence of an item which must not appear in a well-formed utterance. This error happens because of the result of the too faithful use of certain rules. Additions are also divided into three different parts. They are double markings, regularizations, and simple additions. 1 Double Markings In some cases, the students who have acquired the tensed form for auxiliary and verb often place the marker on both. Dulay et al 1982: 156 stated that “many addition errors are more accurately described as the failure to delete 25 certain items which are required in some linguistic constructions, but not in others”. The examples are he doesn’t knows my name or we didn’t knew about it.The error above is called double markings, because two items rather than one are marked for the same feature. 2 Regularization additions Dulay et al 1982 say that a rule typically applies to all linguistic items, however, some members of a class are exception to the rule. Regularization errors that are included in the addition category are those in which a marker that is typically added to a linguistic item is erroneously added to exceptional items of the given class that do not take a marker. The examples of regularization errors are eat- eated instead of ate, beat- beatedinstead of beat, sheep-sheepsinstead of sheep, put-putted instead of put and etc. 3 Simple Addition Simple addition is the last category of additions. If an addition error is neither a double marking nor a regularization error, it is called simple addition. This error is still based on adding unnecessary morphemes to sentences, and words. The examples of simple addition error are the train is gonnabroke it past tense, a this article a, and etc.

c. Misformation