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Error analysis Worksheet
Find the pattern of the following errors in each group and
guess why students produce this kind of errors:
| Group one:
I do my homework now. He do homework yesterday. We do
homework tomorrow. She do homework already.
Pattern:
Reason: |
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Group two:
I 15 year. He 15 year. She also 15
year.
Pattern:
Reason: |
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Group three:
Joe tell me go street buy a football return home play
football with him. We eat, play, drink together.
Pattern:
Reason: |
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Group four:
Although she work so hard, but she never get A. Because
the bus come late, so he late this morning. If go to school everyday, then
we get good grades.
Pattern:
Reason: |
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Group five:
If I am you, I will buy this book. If he come on time,
he won't miss the train.
Pattern:
Reason: |
Some notes about Chinese grammar and writing:
90% of the characters can be used to construct meaningful words. This is why
you may encounter strange expressions like "no three no four"
(dubious) or "give you some color see see." (teach you a lesson)
Students from Hong Kong do not receive any instruction in Chinese grammar
until they reach11th grade or never receive any instruction in
grammar at all during their high school years. Students from rural areas in
mainland China do not receive any instruction in grammar at all. Therefore,
these students have no concept on any grammatical terms in either Chinese or
English.
Literature study is introduced in college only. Therefore, K-12th
grade Chinese immigrants may have no prior knowledge on "setting,"
"character," "plot," "climax," "figurative
language," "tone," "mood," and anything that has to
do with rhymes.
Most Chinese immigrants have no training in any kinds of essay writing.
Concepts such as "theme," "introductory paragraph,"
"summary," "topic sentence" are new to them. Educators in
China have been paying so much attention to teaching the writing of prose that
they actually make every student to write anything like a prose.
The following elements do not exist in Chinese grammar:
 | subjunctive mood |
| tenses |
| articles |
| clauses |
| plural forms |
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