A Study on Syntactic Errors Experienced by First-Graduate Students of English in the Selected Colleges of Coimbatore with Reference to Active and Passive Voice

Authors

  • P. Jayakumar Ph.D. Scholar, School of Social Sciences and Languages, VIT-University, Chennai campus, India.
  • Dr. I. Ajit Assistant professor, School of Social Sciences and Languages VIT-University, Chennai campus, India.

Keywords:

Collegians, Syntax, First Generation Graduate, Informants, Grammar and Questionnaire

Abstract

The major reason for choosing this area is to find out the syntactic errors. The reason behind this, sentence with errors will completely change the meaning and it will be harder to understand. More specifically, the purpose of the study is to investigate the problems why the students keep on committing errors, and offer some recommendations and suggestions for the problems. For the present study, first generation graduate students were taken as target learners from selected colleges in Coimbatore. Verb is the heart of the sentence. Without verb we cannot make the sentence. Verbs are either active or passive in voice. First generation-graduate collegians have faced many problems in English grammar transformational skills especially in active and passive voice than non-First generation-graduate students. The objective of the present study is to measure the achievement in grammar competence by giving questionnaire. The selection of the informants is varied from one another with different kinds of location, age, gender, parental education and occupation. This study has been done with both quantitative and qualitative analysis. This study has been limited with Active and Passive voice sentences.  Eventually, based on 120 respondents the researcher came to know that there is significance relation between lack of knowledge in grammar and first generation-graduate students. It is hoped that this presentation would help the English learners to find the problems and avoid syntactic errors.

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Published

01.10.2015

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P. Jayakumar, & I. Ajit. (2015). A Study on Syntactic Errors Experienced by First-Graduate Students of English in the Selected Colleges of Coimbatore with Reference to Active and Passive Voice . Journal of Teaching and Research in English Literature, 7(2), 5–12. Retrieved from https://journals.eltai.in/index.php/jtrel/article/view/JTREL070203

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Vol. 7 No. 2 (2015): October

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Research Articles

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