Martinet 1969:159 states that when a verb is placed immediately after a preposition the gerund form must be used. I think the factor of the
students producing this error because of the students’ lack of knowledge to add ing form to the verbs if they are preceded by a preposition. They
do not understand the use of gerund after preposition well.
b. Omission of Consonant L
etter “t”
Original Sentence Reconstruction
50. Julia is very pleased with
geting the desired exam
result.
Julia is very pleased with getting the desired exam result.
Omission is the error in this sample. It is because the students omitted the consonant letter “t” in writing the verb+ing. The error occurs
because the students get interference in using double consonant letter to certain verbs if they get addition of ed or ing. The final single consonant
letter that stands after a short stressed vowel is doubled before adding ed or ing.
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2. Addition Error
Addition error is the presence of an item which must not appear in a well- formed utterance. There are 36 addition error of gerund after preposisition
made by the students. a.
Addition of “ed”
Original Sentence Reconstruction
51.
You might get trouble for You might get trouble for faking an
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faked an illness to avoid
work.
illness to avoid work.
Related to the samples above, the type of error is addition error because the students added “ed” to the verb that must not appear.
“heared”, and “faked” must be “hearing”, and “faking”. Thomson and Martinet 1969:159 states that when a verb is placed immediately after a
preposition the gerund form must be used. This error might occur because the students do not understand the use of gerund after
preposition. b.
Addition of Apostrophe ‘s
Original Sentence Reconstruction
52. Julia is very pleased with
get’s the desired exam results.
Julia is very pleased with getting the desired exam results.
Related to the samples above, the student added apostrophe ‘s to the verb that must not appear in that sentence. Apostrophe ‘s is used to
show the possesion of a nounpronoun. The use of apostrophe ‘s in
“get” is not proper with the structure of the sentence because the verb “get” is used after a preposition. It must be in gerund form “getting”.
Thomson and Martinet 1969:159 states that when a verb is placed immediately after a preposition the gerund form must be used. I think the
reason of student producing this error because of the student’s lack of knowledge in using apostrophe and gerund after preposition.
3. Misinformation Error
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Misinformation error is characterized by the use of the wrong form of the morphemes or structure. There are 68 misinformation errors in using gerund
as subjective complement made by the students. a.
Misinformation of Verb+ing
Original Sentence Reconstruction
53. The activity of buy and
