Overall comparison of two groups (boys & girls) Description Average length of composition Total number of words Total

number of sentences Mean of words in a sentence Correct number of sentences Number of errors % of incorrect sentences Boys 124 1118 119 Girls 182 2007 127

9.39(approx) 15.80(approx) 29 116 75.63% 58 120 55.33%

Number and percentage of errors in three linguistic types ERROR TYPE BOYS(9) No of % of errors errors lexical 20 17.24% morphosyntactic 36 31.03% syntactic 16 13.79% miscellaneous 44 37.93% GIRLS(11) No of % of errors errors 28 23.33% 54 45% 12 10% 26 21.66%

Frequency distribution of lexical errors Lexical Boys(9) category No of % of errors errors noun 6 30% adjective 4 20% verb 7 35% adverb 1 5% pronoun 2 10% Girls(11) No of % of errors errors 8 28.57% 4 14.28% 8 28.57% 4 14.28% 4 14.28%

Frequency distribution of morphosyntactic errors Morphosyntactic category Singular-plural Sub-verb agreement Participle ending -ve marker Possessive marker .articles prepositions Tense& aspect conjunction quantifiers Models & auxiliary No of errors 4 0 2 0 0 4 4 7 0 O 15 Boys % of errors 11.11% 0 5.55% 0 0 11.11% 11.11% 19.44% 0 0 41.66% No of errors 4 5 1 0 3 4 9 25 0 0 3 girls % of errors 7.40% 9.25% 1.85% 0% 5.55% 7.40% 16.66% 46.29% 0% 0% 5.55%

Frequency distribution of syntactic errors Syntactic category Word order Directindirect speech Activepassive negation boys No of % of errors errors 13 81.25% 2 12.50% girls No of % of errors errors 11 91.66% 1 8.44%

1 0

6.25% 0

0 0

0% 0%

interrogation 0

Frequency distribution of miscellaneous errors Miscellaneous Boys(45 Girls(26 (70errors) errors) errors) No of % of No of % of errors errors errors errors spelling 43 95.55% other 2 4.44%