Writing prompt: Using the given vocabulary and sentence patterns, and referring to the table, write a short essay.
Gao Feng is a football fan. He owns four footballs and many photos of soccer stars, but he never plays football; he only watches games on TV. He has two friends, Mike and Dave. Based on the table hints, introduce the hobbies of Gao Feng and his two friends in about 50 words.
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Student essay:
Gao Feng is a footable fan, he has 4 football, and many football star's photos. However, he never play football, he just watches football games on TV. He has two friends named Mike and Dave. Mike plays basketball very nice, but he dislike ping-pong because he think is boring. Dave likes soccer too. He think basketball is the most difficultest. This why he don't play basketball.

Corrected essay:
Gao Feng is a football fan. He has 4 footballs and many football stars' photos. However, he never plays football, he just watches football games on TV. He has two friends named Mike and Dave. Mike plays basketball very well, but he dislikes ping-pong because he thinks it is boring. Dave likes soccer, too. He thinks basketball is the most difficult. This is why he doesn't play basketball.

Error analysis:
error_sentence: Gao Feng is a footable fan, he has 4 football, and many football star's photos.
correct_sentence: Gao Feng is a football fan. He has 4 footballs and many football stars' photos.
error: footable fan, he
correction: football fan. He
error_type: Punctuation Error
error_severity: 3
error_description: ① Spelling Error: According to the sentence meaning, 〈footable〉 is a spelling error; the correct spelling should be 『football』, indicating the sport of football; ② Punctuation Error: In English, a period 『.』 should be used to connect two independent sentences; the comma 〈,〉 in 〈footable fan, he〉 should be changed to a period 『.』 to correctly separate the sentence structure.
error_sentence: Gao Feng is a footable fan, he has 4 football, and many football star's photos.
correct_sentence: He has 4 footballs and many football stars' photos.
error: football,
correction: footballs
error_type: Noun Number Error
error_severity: 3
error_description: Noun Number Error: According to the context, the quantifier 〈four〉 should be followed by a plural noun; 〈football〉 needs to be changed to 『footballs』 to conform to the plural form.
error_sentence: Gao Feng is a footable fan, he has 4 football, and many football star's photos.
correct_sentence: He has 4 footballs and many football stars' photos.
error: star's
correction: stars'
error_type: Noun Possessive Error
error_severity: 3
error_description: Noun Possessive Error: Based on 〈many〉, 〈football star〉 should be in the plural form “football stars”, and its possessive form is 『football stars'』.
error_sentence: However, he never play football, he just watches football games on TV.
correct_sentence: However, he never plays football, he just watches football games on TV.
error: play
correction: plays
error_type: Subject-Verb Agreement Error
error_severity: 3
error_description: Subject-Verb Agreement Error: The subject 〈he〉 is third-person singular, and the sentence is in the simple present tense; therefore, the verb should be in the third-person singular form, so 〈play〉 is changed to 『plays』 to meet grammatical requirements.
error_sentence: Mike plays basketball very nice, but he dislike ping-pong because he think is boring.
correct_sentence: Mike plays basketball very well, but he dislikes ping-pong because he thinks it is boring.
error: nice
correction: well
error_type: Adverb Error
error_severity: 3
error_description: Adverb Error: In English, adverbs modify verbs; therefore, the verb 〈plays〉 here should be modified by the adverbial form of 〈nice〉, so the adjective 〈nice〉 is changed to the adverb 『well』.
error_sentence: Mike plays basketball very nice, but he dislike ping-pong because he think is boring.
correct_sentence: Mike plays basketball very well, but he dislikes ping-pong because he thinks it is boring.
error: dislike
correction: dislikes
error_type: Subject-Verb Agreement Error
error_severity: 3
error_description: Subject-Verb Agreement Error: The subject 〈he〉 is third-person singular, and the sentence is in the simple present tense; therefore, the verb should be in the third-person singular form, so 〈dislike〉 is changed to 『dislikes』 to meet grammatical requirements.
error_sentence: Mike plays basketball very nice, but he dislike ping-pong because he think is boring.
correct_sentence: Mike plays basketball very well, but he dislikes ping-pong because he thinks it is boring.
error: think
correction: thinks it
error_type: Sentence Structure Error
error_severity: 5
error_description: ① Subject-Verb Agreement Error: The subject 〈he〉 is third-person singular, and the sentence is in the simple present tense; therefore, the verb should be in the third-person singular form, so 〈think〉 is changed to 『thinks』 to meet grammatical requirements; ② Sentence Structure Error: The object clause is missing a subject; 『it』 needs to be added to refer to 〈ping-pong〉.
error_sentence: Dave likes soccer too.
correct_sentence: Dave likes soccer, too.
correction: ,
error_type: Punctuation Error
error_severity: 2
error_description: Punctuation Error: In English, when 〈too〉 is placed at the end of a sentence, it should be preceded by a comma for separation; therefore, insert 『,』 to conform to English expression habits.
error_sentence: He think basketball is the most difficultest.
correct_sentence: He thinks basketball is the most difficult.
error: think
correction: thinks
error_type: Subject-Verb Agreement Error
error_severity: 3
error_description: Subject-Verb Agreement Error: The subject 〈he〉 is third-person singular, and the sentence is in the simple present tense; therefore, the verb should be in the third-person singular form, so 〈think〉 is changed to 『thinks』 to meet grammatical requirements.
error_sentence: He think basketball is the most difficultest.
correct_sentence: He thinks basketball is the most difficult.
error: difficultest
correction: difficult
error_type: Adjective Error
error_severity: 3
error_description: Adjective Error: In English, the superlative form of an adjective requires the “the most + base form” structure; the adjective 〈difficultest〉 is an incorrect form, the correct form is 『the most difficult』.
error_sentence: This why he don't play basketball.
correct_sentence: This is why he doesn't play basketball.
correction: is
error_type: Sentence Structure Error
error_severity: 4
error_description: Sentence Structure Error: According to the context, 〈This why〉 is missing a linking verb to form a complete subject-verb-complement structure; 『is』 needs to be added to form a complete subject-verb-complement structure.
error_sentence: This why he don't play basketball.
correct_sentence: This is why he doesn't play basketball.
error: do
correction: does
error_type: Subject-Verb Agreement Error
error_severity: 3
error_description: Subject-Verb Agreement Error: The subject 〈he〉 is third-person singular, and the sentence is in the simple present tense; therefore, the verb should be in the third-person singular form, so 〈don't〉 is changed to 『doesn't』 to meet grammatical requirements.