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CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
A. Conclusion
Based on the resultfinding and interpretation, it can be concluded that: there are 5 reasons that students of class VIII.10 of SMPN 3 Tangerang Selatan
find difficulties in mastering degrees of comparison: They are confused to put suffix
–er for comparative and –st-est for superlative or prefix more for comparative and most for superlative, they forgot to add the article the in the
superlative form and confused to omit or misplaced the use of be, they forgot to add than after adjective for comparative form, they do not know how to change
the word that is ended in –y to –i and add –er-est, and many students 42.105
confused to differentiate the usage of comparative or superlative degree. Those reasons are because there is inflection or addition ways of adjective in English
adjective; it differs with adjective in Bahasa Indonesia which is no inflection of adjective.
Moreover, based on the data analysis shows there are 16.66 students who had the mastery in the items of comparative form, 33.77 students who had
the mastery in the items of the superlative form and 42.105 students who had the mastery in the items of the usage of both comparative and superlative degree.
It means that students’ mastery of degrees of comparison is fewer than 50 . Therefore, it can be concluded that the second grade students of SMPN 3
Tangerang Selatan had low mastery of degrees of comparison.
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B. Suggestion
After concluding the result of this study, the writer would like to give some suggestions below:
1. The teacher should be more creative and innovative in making it clear about
the form and the usage of degrees of comparison to the students. The teacher is supposed to give the students fun assignments related to degrees of
comparison in order to make the students more interesting in degrees of comparison.
2. The students need more practices and exercises about degrees of comparison
whether its form or the usage of each degree of comparison.
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