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SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT IN L2 LEARNER LANGUAGEJuly 2nd, 2018
Abstract: This essay examines how Swedish learners of English produce subject-verb agreement errors in written productions. The study uses Error Analysis in order to collect, identify, describe, and finally, explain the occuring errors. The data consists of 75 texts written by students in grades 7 and 8 in a Swedish compulsory school and a total of 140 subject-verb agreement errors were found. The results show that formal grammatical agreement errors with a plural count noun as the subject are the most common. It also shows that subject-verb agreement errors when the subject is a noun or noun phrase are more common than errors with other subjects and that the most common verb associated with agreement errors is to be. The difference in the number of errors made by male and female students is shown to be greater than the difference between the grades. Cross-linguistic influence, e.g. transfer from L1 to L2, is shown to be one of the main reasons behind the agreement errors. Another reas
