A substantially unfinished passage is not graded. Missing titles, headings, or sentences within a passage may be marked as one or more major errors of omission, depending on how much is omitted.
Many words have a variety of meanings, depending on the context.
A simple example is the German pronoun sie , which may mean she, you, or they. Failure to connect the correct modifier with the word it modifies or to identify the subject and object properly can change the sentence profoundly. Failure to recognize the tenses of verbs is another source of error. Inability to convey the meaning of the original text properly in the target language despite an understanding of the original text. This frequently is manifested in the failure to select the most appropriate word among several that have similar meanings.