Errors in the Use of Prepositions by Maithili Learners of English and Their Remedies

Abstract

The present paper attempts to describe the errors in the use of prepositions by Maithili learners of English, account for them in the light of the Speakers L 1, L 2, interferences and other teaching-learning strategies, and suggest their remedies.

I lately lost a preposition;

It hid, I thought, beneath my chair

And angrily I cried: "perdition!"

Up from out of in under there!

Morris Bishop: "The Naughty preposition!"

A Bowl of Bishop.

Key words: Prepositions errors; Maithili; English

Tribhuvan University Journal

Volume XIV, 1991

Page: 49-57

Uploaded date: 5 October, 2010