Table 4.2 Percentage of common students’ mistakes in using tense
No Grammar Area
Number of Item Percentage of
Mistakes Present Continuous Tense
8 45 90
Present Continuous Tense 35
29 58 Present Perfect Tense
33 29 58
Past Tense 32
24 48 Total
4 Items 127 63.5
The table 4.2 above described that the first item is a present Continuous Tense. There were 90 students choosing the wrong answer, in the second item
is 58 students who made errors, those items show that the students are still confused at using the correct usage of present Continuous Tense. And in the third
item there were 29 students who made errors in Present Perfect Tense. In the fourth item there was 48 Students who made errors in Past tense. So, the total
percentage of mistakes is 63.5 .
b. Degree of Comparison
Degree of comparison is the change in the form of an adjective or adverb to
indicate greater or smaller degrees of quantity, quality or manner. The change is indicates by ending – er, -est, or by the use of adverbial modifiers more, most,
less, least. The three degrees of comparison are positive, comparative and superlative.
The table 4.3 show the common students mistakes in using comparison made by the second grade students of Mts Almunawaroh
Table 4.3 Percentage of common students’ mistakes in using degree of comparison
No Grammar Area
Number of Item Percentage of mistakes
Comparative 4
7 14 Comparative
39 41 82
Superlative 21
3 6 Superlative
20 17 34
Total 4 Items
68 34
The table 4.3 above described that there were 14 students who choose the wrong answer, in the second item 82 students who made mistakes, those items
show that the students are still confused at using the correct usage of Comparison. And in the third item there were 6 students who made mistakes in Superlative.
As For the fourth item there was 34 Students who made mistakes in Superlative. So, the total percentage of mistake is 34 .
c. Preposition
Preposition is one of the language components which connecting words in English. They are connecting words that show the relationship between the nouns
following them and one of the basic sentence elements, such as subject, verb,
object or complement
The data of common students mistake in using preposition will be presented in the table of 4.4 below
Table 4.4 Percentage of common students mistake in using Preposition
No Grammar Area
Number of Item Percentage of mistakes
Preposition of Place 12
1 2 Preposition of Place
14 0 0
Preposition of Place 19
2 4 Preposition of Place
18 11 22
Total 4 Items
14 7
From the table 4.4 above shown that there were 2 students that made mistakes in the first item and in the second item there were 0 students choosing
the wrong answer. In the third item there were 4 students who made mistakes. The last item there were 22 students who made mistakes. So, the total of
percentage of mistake is 7 .
D. Data Interpretation
