Subject-Verb Agreement Error Analysis On Senior Middle School Students

Simple Sentence structure and the Present Indefinite major in Chinese students' compositions. Thus the number of verb must follow the single or plural form of subject according to Subject-Verb Agreement. In verse, there is no Subject-Verb Agreement in Chinese, resulting in many Subject-Verb Agreement errors to Chinese students.The present Senior Three Middle School students have learnt Subject-Verb Agreement in Junior Middle School, and they have gone over it in the second term of Senior Grade Two. The paper concentrates on Senior Middle School students' Subject-Verb Agreement error analysis study by means of dynamic quantitative and static qualitative approach. Started from the study on Senior Three Middle School students'Subject-Verb Agreement grammatical practice, the paper has first found their concrete error forms of grammatical practice and knowledge on Subject-Verb Agreement. Then it discusses about the students'Subject-Verb Agreement error reasons in terms of language factor, psychological factor and grammatical competence. The most important study findings and conclusions are:First, Subject-Verb Agreement error in Senior Middle School students' compositions covers about 45% in the sentences of the present tense. The member of subject is Noun, Pronoun, Gerund, Clause and expressions or compound structure, especially that Noun is more than 50%, which is related to the students'English writing levels and composition contents. The individual error is either no variety or variation without features.Second, the plural form misuse is obviously higher than the single form misuse; the rate is 7:3. That means 70% is notional verb form, notional verb "have", and "be" verb form "are",30% is notional verb form plus "s", notional verb "has", and "be" verb form "is". For the reason that they simplify verb form to the singular form, and are affected by more interference than promotion as to Chinese functions English, the interference plays a major part, plural form misuse increases by 70%. In verse, promotion plays a minor part, drops at 30%. Thus, as to Subject-Verb Agreement, Chinese does not affect English with all negative interference, to some extent there is some promotion. Third, Senior Middle School students'Subject-Verb Agreement error is not merely a problem of "s", which is resulted in together by Subject-Verb Agreement relevant grammar concept, correct Subject-Verb Agreement's key points'memory and Subject-Verb Agreement's practical competence. In composition, Subject-Verb Agreement's practical competence plays a critical role, owing to its non-relevancy with comprehensive ability and presenting ability. Moreover, the students'vague understanding of "number" concept both in Chinese and English resulted in their grammar concept error on Subject-Verb Agreement; Subject-Verb Agreement's concrete key points has two cases:To Senior Middle School students who have errors in composition, correct Subject-Verb Agreement's concrete key points'memory plays a major part, owing to non-relevancy between their Subject-Verb Agreement's comprehensive ability and presenting ability. To Senior Middle School students who don't have errors in composition, Subject-Verb Agreement's relevant grammar concept plays a major part, owing to the high relevant relationship between their Subject-Verb Agreement's comprehensive ability and presenting ability.