Simple Past Tense Data Analysis
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?
No. Items
Archi-form of Helping Verb Sample
Error Reconstructions
A92 Whom is you called last night?
Whom is you call last night 4, 17, 32
26 Whom did you call last
night?
No. Items
Archi-form of Verb Sample
Error Reconstructions
A61 Why your friends did not coming last night?
Why didn’t your friends coming last night?
Why did your friends not coming last night?
3, 19 29
35 Why didn’t your friends
come last night?
B51 Why China can won the Badminton Championship?
Why can China won the Badminton Championship?
Why China won the Badminton Championship?
1 2, 20, 36
3, 4, 15, 16, 19, 25,
27, 29 Why did China win the
Badminton Championship?
A62 Where are you and your Father went fishing last week?
4, 35 Where did you and your
Father go fishing last week? A82 Whose gift that you bought
yesterday? Whose gift you bought
yesterday? 1, 20, 22
2, 15, 16, 25, 27, 29,
35, 36 Whose gift did you buy
yesterday?
No. Items
Archi-form of Verb Sample
Error Reconstructions
A92 Whom is you called last night?
4 Whom did you call last
night? 5B2 Why Mia left her dictionary?
1, 2, 3, 4, 15,16, 19,
20, 22, 25, 27, 29, 35,
36 Why did Mia leave her
dictionary?
No. Items
Misordering of Helping Verb
Sample Error
Reconstructions
A61 Why your friends do not come last night?
12, 14, 18 Why did not your friends
come last night? B31 Why you
didn’t go to anywhere yesterday?
Why I didn’t go anywhere
yesterday? 12, 14
18 Why
didn’t you go to anywhere yesterday?
B32 Why you didn’t watch the
football match? 12, 14, 18
Why didn’t you watch the
football match?
Based on the table 4.11 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 in past form. The misordering of helping verb is made because the students are influenced with the sentence in declarative form.