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This paper examines syntactic errors in 50 Chinese college EFL learners' writing. The syntactic errors include the following errors of ‘run-on sentence’, ‘subject ellipsis’, ‘word order’, ‘conjunction’, ‘relative clause’, and ‘subject-verb agreement’. Their error rates are 32.20%, 28.00%, 17.79%, 11.01%, 7.62%, and 3.38%, respectively. We argue that syntactic errors are the gravest ones in writing because they give a bad impression to the rater. We propose that all these errors are caused by interlingual differences between English and Chinese, mainly derived from different language typology with the former as a hypotactic and the latter as a paratactic language. Accordingly, Chinese EFL teachers are suggested to explicitly teach their students English grammar via directing their attention to these interlingual syntactic differences.
