participle in called. Omission errors are found in great abundance and across a greater variety of morphemes during the early stages of L2 acquisition.
2.3.1.2 Addition
Addition errors are the opposite of omission. They are characterized by the presence of an item which must not appear in the utterances Dulay et.al, 1982:
156. Addition errors are divided into: Double marking, Regularization and Simple addition.
2.3.1.2.1 Double Marking
Many addition errors are more accurately described as the failure to delete certain items which are not required in some linguistic constructions, but not in
other Dulay et.al, 1982: 156. For example: He doesn’t knows my name, We
didn’t went there, and I didn’t spilled it. In most English sentence, some semantic features such as tense may be
marked syntactically only one. We say; I didn’t go, although go takes a past tense
marker when there is no auxiliary such as do on which to mark the tense, as in; They went to lunch an hour ago, the English rule for tense formation is place the
tense marker on the first verb. In a simple affirmative sentence, the main verb is the only verb, and thus takes the tense.
In a sentence where an auxiliary is required in addition to the main verb, the auxiliary, not the main verb, takes the tense. Learners who have acquired the
tensed form for both auxiliary and verb often place the marker on both, as in He doesn’t knows my name, We didn’t went there, and I didn’t spilled it. The double
marking happens because of two items rather than one marked for the same feature tense, in this example.
2.3.1.2.2 Regularization
Regularization errors that fall under 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 Dulay et.al, 1982 : 157. For example eated, beated, hitted and putted are regularizations whenever
there are both regular and irregular forms and construction in a language, learners apply the rules used to produce the regular ones to those that are irregular,
resulting in error of regularization.
2.3.1.2.3 Simple Addition
Simple Addition errors is the “grab bag” sub category of addition. If an
addition error is neither double marking nor regularization, it is called simple addition Dulay et.al, 1982: 158. For example; No particular features characterize
simple additions other than those that characteristic all addition errors or the use of an item which should not appear in a well
– formed utterance. For example: I
doesn’t know, I can doed it, the fishes doesn’t live in the water, I takes it. And they will coming.
2.3.1.3 Misformation
