• Adetokunboh Abayomi ADEPOJU, PhD
• Folayemi Justinah AKINBOBOYE
• Bukola Anike OJOKO, PhD

The study examined the errors committed by primary school pupils in their written compositions. The literature review covered different kinds of compositions, Contrastive Analysis, Error Analysis and types of grammatical errors. Three research questions were raised to guide the study and with the aid of a free response research instrument titled, ‘My favourite Food‘, responses were got from sixty nine pupils selected through purposive sampling technique. Findings showed that primary school pupils’ compositions were full of errors, indecipherable errors constituted the higher percentage, 33.39% while misordering errors constituted the least, 0.17%. The study concluded that errors water down the quality of primary school pupils’ compositions with attendant effects on their academic performance. The study recommended, among others, that teachers should give regular composition exercises to pupils, teach rudiments of grammar to pupils and emphasis the differences between homophones such as alter/altar and days/daze.

grammatical errors, written compositions, contrastive analysis, error analysis pupils

"An Analysis of Grammatical Errors in the Written Compositions of Primary School Pupils in Ode-Omu, Osun State, Nigeria", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 8, page no.e484-e495, August-2024, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2408557.pdf

"An Analysis of Grammatical Errors in the Written Compositions of Primary School Pupils in Ode-Omu, Osun State, Nigeria", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 8, page no. ppe484-e495, August-2024, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2408557.pdf