ERROR ANALYSIS SYNTACTIC ERRORS BY THE STUDENTS OF PRIVATE AND PUBLIC COLLEGES IN WRITING ENGLISH PARAGRAPH AT INTERMEDIATE LEVEL, KOHAT, (KP).

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Error Analysis is one of the appropriate means to provıde students with a better way of writing. It is a significant field of exploration in nations such as Pakistan. The objective of this study was an attempt to decipher the Syntactic Errors by the Students of Private and Public Colleges in Writing English Paragraph at Intermediate Level Kohat (KPK). Therefore, the aim has been to identify the errors in syntax submitted by the understudies of the public and private sector in writing English paragraphs and to check whether there is any sort of difference in the errors committed by the students of the public vs private sector. The researchers used the primary source for data collection—Four Colleges (two private and two public) and applied a mix-method design.  First, the students were tested by asking to write a paragraph on a given topic, and then teachers were interviewed on the basis of their findings. For data collection, the written paragraphs of 100 students were collected (25 from each College) through a random sampling technique. From this sample of 100 students, 40 paragraphs were selected for in-depth analysis—20 of those students whose educational background till matric was from the public sector and 20 of those from the private sector—through Purposive Sampling techniques and were checked through an online Grammarly checker. The findings show that most intermediate-level understudies who were learners of EFL made syntactical errors. Additionally, the review uncovers that the understudies face intricacy with various linguistic errors as far as utilizing punctuation, article, spelling, action words, conjunctions, capitalization, articles, pronouns, prepositions, adjectives, adverbs, and inappropriate sentences because of a lack of knowledge, non-seriousness, overgeneralization, and less concentration of learners. Also finding reveals that there exists a great difference between the error committed by public sector students and private sector students and the reason behind it are: Medium of instruction, Traditional method, Promotion of rote learning vs creativity --- government sector Paper is from book exercise vs complete unseen paper by the private sector and qualified vs non-qualified staff.  This paper proposes and suggests changes in the present strategy of teaching, testing techniques, and strategy. At last, there are likewise ideas for the designing of the curriculum.