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Is He is ugly person? incorrect
Is He ugly person? correct 3.
Does He not goes to school early? incorrect
Does He not go to school early? correct 4.
Are they are not hapypy? incorrect
Are they not happy? correct
2. Omission
Omission errors are characterized by the absence of an item that must appear in a well-formed utterance. In other words, an utterance of a sentence is said to exhibit
omission errors if it omits any necessary item used in well-formed sentence of utterance.
For example:
1. Do Fina sing a song? incorrect
Does Fina sing a song? correct
2. Not you make a delicious cake ? incorrect
Do
n‟t you make a delicious cake? correct 3.
Is He go to be success? incorrect
Is He going to be success? corrrect
4. Not she sad yesterday? incorrect
Didn‟t she not sad yesterday? correct
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3. Misformation
Misformation errors are characterized by incorrect form of morpheme or structure. In misformation errors, learner supplies an item although it is still incorrect. There are
three kinds of misformation errors; Regularization errors, Archi-forms, and Alternating forms. In this research alternating form is possibly make by the students,
because the students only transform declarative into interrogative sentences based on the sentences provided.
a. Regularization errors Errors that belong to this category are in which a regular marker is used in place of an
irregular one and commonly in comprehension of grammar. But in this case, it cannot be used to correlative conjunction.
For example: 1.
Did David buyed a new book yesterday? incorrect Did David buy a new book yesterday? correct
2.
Don‟t you meeted him? incorrect Don‟t you meet him ? correct
3. Are they nice childs? incorrect
Are they nice childrean? correct
4. Is it not cute mouses? incorrect
Is it not cute mice? correct
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The selection of a member of a class of form to represent others in the class is common characteristic of all stages of second language acquisition. The form selected
by the students called an “archi-form”. For example:
1. Are this not grapes? incorrect
Are these not grapes? correct
2. Are there much students in the library? incorrect
Are there many students in the library? correct
3. Is He an stupid girl? incorrect
Is He a stupid girl? correct
4. Are that not tall woman? incorrect
Are those not tall wwomen? correct
c. Alternating forms As the leaner‟s vocabulary and grammar grow, they have known the various member
of a class. Nevertheless, they still fail to select and use the member appropriately. For example:
1. Do David buy a new book yesterday? incorrect
Did David buy a new book yesterday? correct
2.
Don‟t You give She a beautiful dress? incorrect Don‟t You give her a beautiful dress? correct
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Will you be mine girlfriend? incorrect Will you be my girlfriend? correct
4. Do
n‟t it thick book? incorrect
Is it not thick book? correct 4.
Misordering
These errors are characterrized by incorrect placement of morphemes or a group of morphemes or words in utterence.
For example: 1.
Will come he to the office now? incorrect Will he come to the office now? correct
2. Are we not to be pilot going? incorrect
Are we not going to be pilot? correct
3. Did a letter to your best friend yesterday you write? incorrect
Did you write a letter to your best friend yesterday? correct
4. Is it error not? incorrect
Is it not error ? correct
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K. Concept of Error Analysis in Transforming Interrogative Sentence
