SOME SYNTACTIC ERRORS IN SOME SECONDARY SCHOOLS OF THE ISANGI TERRITORY (DRC): 2020- 2021. THE CASE OF THE USE OF SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT IN ENGLISH

Author: Degaule Itolome Lingonde

ABSTRACT

This article examined Some Syntactic Errors in Some Secondary Schools of the Isangi Territory (DRC): 2020- 2021. The Case of the Use of Subject-Verb Agreement in English. The population of the study consisted of 15 teachers of English with the ratio of one teacher per school and 150 pupils of sixth form; i.e., 10 pupils per school. Moreover, the participants were chosen randomly. The analysis of the results showed that the syntactic error had two principal causes, that is, interlingual and intralingual. But intralingual was the most dominant. And these two causes have pushed them to make three main subject-verb agreement errors, notably omission, addition, and substitution errors. And also the pupils of the sixth form have presented a low performance in English writing because of the lack of qualified teachers.

Keywords: Subject, Verb, Agreement, Pupils of the sixth form, Teachers of English.

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