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FINAL EXAM SPRING 2021

Course Name: Error Recognition and Correction Code: ENSP3228

Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes Total Marks: 30

Question one: Match the following sentences in column (A) with the types of errors in column (B). There
is one extra type of error. (5 Marks)

A B
Answer Sentences NO Types of errors
5 1 Overgeneralization
We ate bread and salt together.
2 Collocational error
9 Do you like to have little water?
3 Covert error
2 Ahmed took a good mark in English.
4 Omission
7 Sara was very angry from her little sister.
5 Idiom- related error
6 Were the student revising their lessons.
6 Compound error
3 It was stopped.
7 Phrasal verb- related error
1 The clothes shrinked when I washed them.
8 Addition
10 Must go the boy?
9 Quantifier-related error
8 The life is very easy in Japan.
10 Misordering
11 I have fifteen pen.
11 Substitution
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Question two: The following passage contains five mistakes. Identify and classify them according to the
following. (5 marks)

The first fairy tale that Andersen wrote were published is a cheap little book that he did not
take very seriously. This may be the reason why they are so different from other works. For
once, he was not trying to be a great writer. He simply wrote the stories as they came for
him. Some were based on folktales he had heard as child, while others were his own
inventions. These stories had the brilliant characters, the action, and the suspense that
children love. But what made them special was there informal style, which was completely
new at that time. In fact, they were written as though he was telling them at the moment in
a voice that was chatty and direct, humorous sometimes and sometimes heartbreaking. By
the time Andersen die in 1875, he had indeed become a great writer, loved by children in
many countries as well as by famous people and even kings and queens.

1. Verb tense and aspect

Sentence: Andersen die in
1875
Correction: Andersen died
in 1875
2. Nouns
Sentence: This may be the
reason why they are so

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different from other
works.

Correction: This may be

the reason why they are so
different from other jobs.

3. Pronouns
Sentence: But what
made them special was
there informal style

Correction: But what

made them special was
their informal style

4. Prepositions and prepositional phrases

Sentence: He simply
wrote the stories as they
came for him.

Correction: He simply
wrote the stories as they
came to him.

5. Article
Sentence: These stories
had the brilliant
characters, the action, and
the suspense that children
love.

Correction: These stories

had brilliant characters,
action, and suspense that
children love.

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Derivation OR Inflection (Choose one) Comments

General definition Inflection: is adding affixes to the words to Use your own words
produce a different kind of the same word. For
example, possessive, plural, and superlative. Word limit: 30
Similarities Each language has its unique system related to
between inflections, and to have a different form of the
Arabic and English word the system should be followed for each Word limit: 30
language.

What is the expected Students will be aware of two different systems

positive transfer that will allow them to know some potential Word limit:
(facilitation) errors that they might have in the targeted 30
language.
Differences between Possessive: in English, we add (s or ‘) to have the
Arabic and English possessive form of the word, but in Arabic, we
don’t add anything, so this leads to the ignorance Word limit: 60
of adding (s or ‘) among Arab learners.

An example in Arabic ‫كتاب محمد‬

You cannot use examples
from the textbook

An example in English Mohammed’s book You cannot use examples

from the text book

Question three: Fill in the following table. (20 marks)

Possible Mohammed drived Ali play football Ahmed has You cannot use examples
errors: his car. every day. writted the from materials given by

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3 examples paragraph. the instructor

Correction Mohammed drove his Ali plays football Ahmed has You cannot use examples
car. every day. written the from materials given by
paragraph. the instructor
Description Grammar, past tense, Grammar, Grammar, Past
substitution present simple, participle,
substitution substitution

Explanation The students made The students The students

the mistake because made the made the mistake
of the complexity of mistake because because of the
the English language of the complexity complexity of the
(intralingual transfer),of the English English language
so the learners language (intralingual
applied to rule of the (intralingual transfer), so the
regular verb to transfer), so they learners wrote
irregular verb. didn’t add the ( writted ) instead
third person s to of (written).
the verb.
Suggestions The teacher should give some examples that make the Word limit: 40
for students motivated to learn, so they will make the rules
Teaching: memorable.
Suggest two The teacher needs to give a lot of examples for the students to Word limit: 40
ways of make sure that they understood the rule correctly. Also, the
dealing with teacher needs to emphasize the differences in some rules. E,g.
these errors man, men, women, and woman.
in your
classroom

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