Answer to Question #119327 in English for Maki kanyane

Question

A day with friends
My friends and I have plan a lot of things to do when we get together.first we will walk to church and praying in the morning and then we would go to eat at Spur restaurant.However ,the friends did not agree any decision ,some wanted to staying in the house and play games,others wanted to visit at the museum.The leader of the group then had to decide for us.she said that we will all go to the Museum and later go to eat at Spur.I must say it was a unforgettable day
The question:
Identify 5 errors and explain the type of error you have identified ?

I identified
Praying-pray
The-my.
Staying-stay
Plan-planned
a-an

Answer 1

Praying-pray: the verb praying is used to describe a past action or a present continuous. The case is future tense hence pray is the correct verb form.

The-my: The is a definitive determiner for people that have been mentioned prior, they be familiar or unfamiliar to the speaker. However, these are the speakers’ friends therefore, my is the more relevant determiner because it attaches the friends to the reader.

Staying-stay: Staying refers to a present continuous or a past continuous tense. In this case past perfect, tense that is stay, more relevantly.

Plan-planned. Plan is a verb form of present continues, while the case is past perfect tense, hence planned

a-an: a is used before a word that starts with a consonant sound while an applies for a words that starts with a vowel, in this case Unfortunate, starts with a vowel, therefore an is the correct article.