Passage Analysis: Ungrammatical Errors - Assignment Example

We will then rewrite the passage, understand the context and the thought process behind the student’s narrative written work. Finally a learning plan will be proposed based on the student’s proficiency level and grade. List of sentences with ungrammatical errors and detailed explanation: 1. It a was pitch sunny day the air was breezing Incorrect adjective “pitch” has been used. The descriptive or qualifying adjective goes with dark. The correct adjective that would be appropriate to the phrase “sunny day”, would be bright sunny day.

anonymous (undated) (Cambridge Dictionaries Online, 2011) A missing conjunction “and” that would link up the two phrases is necessary to construct the sentence as it talks about two different things, the sunny day and the breeze. The phrase “air was breezing” is incorrect. It would instead be the breeze was blowing. This is an example of confusion between noun and verb. Both Air and Breeze are nouns and have been misplaced in the sentence. anonymous (undated) (Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, 2012) Incorrect punctuation is noticed in the sentence. . By syntax, it is referred to the standard acceptable sentence phrasing.

In this above example and many more to follow we will notice how the student finds it difficult to construct a sentence that has one central theme and a combination of main clause and subordinate clause. 2. It was Year News day. Incorrect sentence structuring is the primary problem in this sentence. The sequence of the words has been jumbled up. Instead of what the learner has written, it should have been: It was New Year’s Day. 3. Today taras family is celebrating new year day in Thier tree old house This sentence reflects incorrect sentence phrasing, missing article and punctuations.

The learner needs to build on the knowledge of usage of articles. The correct sentence in this case would have been: “Taras’family was celebrating New Year in their old tree house.” 4. it was their one of the beautifulest traditional house The sentence has a capitalisation error or in other words begins with a letter in lower case (small letter). This is against the most important rule of sentence structuring. The sentence also has an abrupt ending and is not punctuated with a full-stop at the end.

The second error in this sentence is the ordering of pronoun and noun in the first part of the sentence: “their one of the”. The third error is the incorrect superlative of the adjective beautiful. anonymous (undated) (ESL Desk, 2012) The correct way of writing the above mentioned sentence would have been the following: It was one of their most beautiful houses. Their traditional house was one of the most beautiful of all houses. 5. They Even decided to lorring all thier cats, and rabits it is now "12" oclock Here, the sentence has lesser errors.

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