Investigating the Problems of Secondary School Students in Subject Verb Agreement

Abstract

Grammatical errors are one of the major difficulties faced by second language learners. Among the most common types of grammatical errors is subject verb agreement. This study aimed at investigating the frequency of such subject verb agreement errors among thirty (30) Almanarat secondary school students, a test served as the instrument of the study. Then the data were analyzed by using the Statistical Package for Social Science SPSS. The study concluded the following findings: It was found that subject verb agreement mistakes are frequent among the verbs to be, the miss understand of the subject verb agreement was the main causes of such errors. The recommendations in this study for the secondary school students, that they must know how to use subject verb agreement, and study it in perfect way, and make more practice. The teachers must explain it very simply to the students.