What would be the writing condition of those students whose teachers’ own writing condition is quite shameful. Pakistani English teachers make an average of two to three mistakes per sentence. This is the reason why students are unaware of basic concepts and they make lots of mistakes. Thus their writings are of no standard. Mostly, Pakistani students’ written language contains structural and usage based grammatical errors, which need to be pointed out and hence are discussed briefly.
On the first place, the errors regarding structural mistakes are commonly found in Pakistani students’ writings. Students make the most common errors in tense structures. for example, I am drink, or she is watering etc. plus the mistakes of s, or es in present simple tense is quite confusing. Moreover inappropriate knowledge of causative structures leads the students to present the idea of having something done as if they did by themselves, which mix up the complete idea and creates confusion.
When translating a text into English, students do word by word translation rather than focusing on semantic content of expression that of course results into amusing sentences which are grammatically wrong. As an illustration, one of his students, on the birth of his first daughter, shared the news with others as “a daughter has created in the home of sir Qasim”. Also, I have proud of my teachers.
Further more, a much unnoticed error in Pakistani students’ written language occurs using wh Questions either the students make mistake by not placing the helping verb after wh
For example, What Asma will think about her? (x)
What will Asma think about her? (√)
Or by inserting after it when there is no need, for example,
I will tell you, which color is she wearing? (x)
I will tell you, which color she is wearing? (√)
These were some of the structural errors, which need to be rectified.
Secondly, placing the right word on the right place is a great problem. Not knowing the correct...