The Grammatical errors made by the fifth year pupils of Santa Theresia II in making interrogative sentence

Wijaya, Lienny (2007) The Grammatical errors made by the fifth year pupils of Santa Theresia II in making interrogative sentence. Bachelor thesis, Petra Christian University.

Abstract

The study is about the grammatical errors made by the fifth year pupils of Santa Theresia II in making interrogative sentences. The researcher uses the classification of errors in the use of questions as suggested by Richards, namely omission of inversion, be-omitted, omission of do, wrong form of auxiliary/verb, and inversion in embedded sentences. The subject of this study is the fifth year pupils of Santa Theresia II. The problem of this research is to see the predominant type of grammatical errors produced by the fifth year pupils of Santa Theresia II in making interrogative sentences. The writer gave forty questions which consist of twenty questions dealing with WH question, and twenty yes/no questions to the thirty subjects of this research to gain her data. In this study, the writer used qualitative descriptive approach since the study is about finding and classifying grammatical errors. In both interrogative sentences, WH question and yes/no question, the writer found that most pupils of Santa Theresia II made errors in wrong form of auxiliary.

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