GRAMMAR’S ERROR AT FORMAL COMMUNICATION
Novi Dyah Arisanti
NIM: 113-14-037
People in this world need
a way to convey their instruction to others. At first, it becomes a problem.
Communication is one of the ways that has been found by people to solve their
problems before. According to
Canale (1983: 1-27), Reaching effectiveness in communication needs communicative
ability which is the mastery knowledge of language and the competences apply
the knowledge in real communication. Communication divides in two conditions,
formal and informal situation. Spoken and written are kinds of languages’ style
to deliver the instruction. In this occasion, to understand others’ instruction
and to make language easy to use, communication need a standard.
As developing thought in human relation, languages as a tool of
communication are broaden. We can find so much languages that try spread their
impact in all areas. English, which becomes an International language also
broaden. English also becomes the most widely used language in the world. It
becomes reason why people around the world try to understand and learn English.
The rule of English calls Grammar. Grammar is a perfect way. Grammar at
Oxford English Dictionary is the whole system and structure of a language or of
languages in general, usually taken as consisting of syntax and morphology
(including inflections) and sometimes also phonology and semantics. Grammar in
English has many things, such as part of speech, and tenses. Both of them are
supported each other and have a good relation to deliver the instruction as
meaning. Huddleston
(1984: 90) says, “Most of the major language group spoken today, notably
the Indo-European languages and Semitic languages, use almost the identical
categories; Chinese, however has fewer parts of speech than English”.
According to Soanes and Stevenson (2009: 513), Part of speech is
a class or division which a word is allocated in a manner conforming its
syntactic functions. The main parts of speech are noun, pronoun, adjective,
determiner, verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. The part
of speech also calls eight main word classes in English. The members of part of
speech combine to create a good sentence. For example: “My father was a pilot,
and we must book a ticket next week” (Oxford Guide to English Grammar, p: 11).
After talking about grammar, we back to our discussion before. As I said
before, we need a standard when we learn language. The standard is called a rule. However, when
people try to use and apply the rule, sometimes, something wrong happens. We
need grammar to support a good communication, but we can’t say that grammar is
easy. We need to learn grammar to communicate with others although when we do
communication that we need just to deliver our instruction. The fact in the
daily life had been told us that grammar make some people confused, especially
when we do communication in the formal situation.
Every people have their own capacity. Not everybody can focus on two
things in one case. When we do communication in the formal usage, despite of
transferring our ideas clearly, we need to construct a good sentence and keep
the rule. Here sometimes an error happens. Henry and Roseberry (2007: 176), a violation
of a productive rule of language is a definition from grammar error, for
example miss of an article or demonstrative preceding a singular countable noun. To
solve an error that happens on grammar at formal situation, it will be better
if we can learn about Interference. Interference becomes one of the most
discussion in this era. Krashen (1981: 7), states that “Interference is a
result of the use of the first language as an utterance initiator, first
language competence may replace acquired second language competence”.
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