• Capitalized names of specific persons, place, or things proper noun
• Capitalize abbreviations or acronym ATM, USA, Ph.D • Capitalize title that precedes a person’s name, but not those that
follow Professor John Smith, the professor.
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• Capitalize the first word of every sentence and pronoun I. However, in some cases, some students did not put any
capital letters in the beginning of the sentence and in proper noun because they do not certain to their own writing, and they are still
doubt in giving capital letter.
6. Omission Word
Omission errors are characteristic by absence of an item that must appear in a well-formed utterance. Omission can occurs
in morphology. Learners often leave out the third person singular morpheme –s, the plural marker-s and the past tense inflection –ed,
a learner could say, for example” a strange happen to me yesterday”.
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The students sometimes added some useless word in the sentence in their writing that had better be omitted. For example “I
went to a post office and then I sent….” It should be “I went to
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Leo Filkenstein, Jr, Pocket Book of Technical Writing for Engineers and Scientists Boston; McGraw–Hill, 2000, p. 204
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Nskala Lengo, What is an Error, English Teaching Forum, July 1995.Vol.XXXIII, p. 22
post office and sent…..”. It is caused by their lack of knowledge and exercise in writing.
7. Spelling
Spelling is how to write a word correctly. For instance; wildt, senter, coupel, etc. they should be wild, center, couple, etc.
spelling problems can be overcomed only through practice and if the students need more practice, they should arrange practice
session with a friend.
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8. Punctuation
Punctuation is the practice of system of inserting various marks in written text in order to aid interpretation.
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Here are the kinds of punctuations in the sentence such as period [.], coma [ , ],
semicolon [; ], colon [: ], hyphen [ - ], etc. and most of students misused the punctuation, eg, ‘ when I saw you for the first time. I
was very surprised” heshe used period instead of coma. In this punctuation case, the students made errors because they do not pay
attention in writing, whereas punctuation is important to make the meaning clear. They did not realize that written English is different
from spoken English. Gesture, tones, and stressing can make the
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Hullon Willis, op. cit.,p.237
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Sylvia Chacker Edmund Weiner, The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar, New York;Oxford University Press, 1989, p. 324
meaning clear in spoken language but only punctuation can make the meaning clear.
9. Tense
