Definition of Error Grammatical Errors on Students' Writing of Recount Text (An Error Analysis at the Second Grade Students of SMP Dharma Karya UT Pamulang)
1. Omission
Error of omission is where some element is omitted which should be present. It means that omission error occur when learners miss or omit necessary items
from an utterance. For example, “I very happy”. In the sentence, an auxiliary was
which should be put after pronoun “I” is omitted. Hence, the sentence should be
“I was very happy”. 2.
Addition Error of addition is where some element is present which should not be there.
It is the opposite of omission error. Learners do not only omit element which they regard as redundant but they also add redundant element. For example, in a
sentence written in past tense, learner produces utterance as following: “I was
visited my grandmother last month”. In the example, the learner adds was before visited. Hence, the sentence should be
“I visited my grandmother last month”. 3.
Misselection Error of selection is where the wrong item has been chosen in place of the
right one. For example, a learner writes a sentence as following: “I go to Bandung
last week” In the example the learner selects the wrong verb for simple past tense form. The correct verb of go is went
. Hence, the sentence should be “I went to Bandung last week”.
4. Misordering
Error of ordering is where the elements presented are correct but wrongly sequenced. For example,
“What you are doing?”. In this example, auxiliary –are is supposed to be put before pronoun you. Hence, the sentence should be
“What are you going?”.
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S.P. Corder, Error Analysis and Interlanguage, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981, p. 36.