“interupt” instead of “interupting”. Thomson and Martinet 1969:164 states that in formal English the possesive adjective is used with the
gerund, but in spoken or less formal English, it is very comman to use the accusative personal pronoun. I think the students made this error
because of their lack of knowledge in using gerund after possesive. b.
Misinformartion of to infinitive
Original Sentence Reconstruction
66.
My friend Monic, asked me to accompany her to go
shopping My friend Monic, asked me to
accompany her going shopping.
Related on the samples above, the use of to infinitive is not in correct form. It is because verb “go” must be in gerund form after
possesive. In addition, the action of this sentence is in general sense. This error might occur because of the students’ lack of knowledge about the
use of infinitive and gerund as direct object.
4. Misordering Error
Misordering error is the incorrect placement of a morpheme or group of morphemes in an utterance. There are 4 misordering error in using gerund
after possesive. a.
Misordering of Verb+ing
Original Sentence Reconstruction
67. Shopping is the activities
that everyone’s doing.
Shopping is an activity done by every people.
Universitas Sumatera Utara
Related to the sample above, the students put the verb+ing in the wrong order. Although, it is preceded by possesive but the sentence
structure is not correct and the verb+ing must not appear there. I think this error occur because the students do not know how to use gerund after
possesive.
Original Sentence Reconstruction
68.
Shopping becomes one of the citizen’s lifestyle,
especially the women
coming from high class
Shopping becomes one of the citizen’s lifestyle, especially the
women come from high class
Related to the sample above, the students put the verb+ing in the wrong order. It is because
the verb+ing “coming” is not preceded by a possesive but by a subject pronoun. A subject must be followed by a verb
directly. I think this error occurs because the students do not know how to use gerund after possesive.
4.2.6. Kinds of Errors in Using Gerund Used in the Negative Adjective “NO”
The negative form of geru nds is made by placing adverb “not” infront of
gerund . There are 133 errors in using gerund used in the negative adjective “no”
made by the students. The errors consist of omission error, additional error, misinformation errror, and misordering error.
1. Omission Error
Universitas Sumatera Utara
Omission is an error of leaving out an item that is required for an utterance to be considered grammatical. There are 36 errors of omitting items in gerund
used in the negative adjective “no” found in data.
a. Omission of “ing”
Original Sentence Reconstruction
69. There is no assume that
they win the game.
70. No cheat is allowed in this
biology test.
There is no assuming that they win the game.
No cheating is allowed in this biology test.
Related to the samples above, the students made error because they omitted the “ing” of the verb after “no”. The verb+ing form must
appear because the verb after negative adjective “no” is followed by gerund. This error might occurs because the students do not understand
the use of this kind of gerund.
2. Addition Error
Addition error is the presence of an item which must not appear in a well- formed utterance. There are 31 addition error of gerund used in the negative
adjective “no” made by the students. a.
Addition of “s”
Original Sentence Reconstruction
71. There is no complains the
wrong explanation of the teacher.
There is no complaining the wrong explanation of the teacher.
Related to the sample above, the students made error because they added suffix “s” to the verb that is preceded by adverb “not”.
“Complains” must be “complaining” because verb preceded by adverb
Universitas Sumatera Utara
“not” must be in gerund form. I think this error occurs because the sudent
s do not understand the use of gerund after adverb “no”. b.
Addition of Article “an”
Original Sentence Reconstruction
72. There is no an assume that
