Which notion describes how accurately grammatical forms are used in learner language, for example preferring plural 's' over possessive 's'?

Which notion describes how accurately grammatical forms are used in learner language, for example preferring plural 's' over possessive 's'?

• A. Accuracy order
• B. Grammatical precision
• C. Semantic accuracy
• D. Phonological accuracy

Answer: (A)

Grammatical accuracy is the focus here—the degree to which learner language uses the right grammatical forms in the correct contexts. The example of preferring plural -s over possessive -s shows a morpho-syntactic form choice, which is exactly about getting forms right, not about meaning or how something sounds.

The term accuracy order best fits this idea because it directly captures how accurately forms are used in production. The other terms shift the focus to meaning (semantic accuracy) or to sound (phonological accuracy) or describe a different notion (grammatical precision) that isn’t the standard label for this construct.