CHAPTER IV FINDING AND DISCUSSION
This study was intended to measure the mastery of subject-verb agreement of the eighth-grade students of SMP N 4 Cepiring in academic year of
20092010. The test was conducted on January 4th, 2010. The result and data analysis are presented in this chapter. It will be very important to know how far
the subject of the study masters subject-verb agreement in descriptive text. Chapter IV deals with the analysis, computation and interpretation of the
data of the study. This chapter is designed in order to answer the research questions through the data analysis.
4.1. Test Items
In this section the data were organized, analyzed and interpreted in form of students’ scores and average score to decide the students’ mastery level. Then
to make the interpretation of the data easier, the writer arranged the score from higher to lowest score. After the writer had grouped the test items in term of
subject-verb agreements, then he calculated the test scores. The test items were divided into two groups as follow:
1. The test items of subject-verb agreements in which the subjects belong to the singular forms consisting of 27 items.
ii 2. The test items of subject-verb agreements in which the subjects belong to
the plural forms consisting of 13 items. Beside deviding the test items into two groups above, the writer also
classified the forty test items as follow: 1
12 test items were classified into subject-verb agreement using third person pronoun.
2 7 test items were classified into subject-verb agreement using some
irregularities form of noun. 3
4 test items were classified into subject-verb agreement using therehere be. 4
8 test items were classified into subject-verb agreement using the expression of quantity.
5 3 test items were classified into subject-verb agreement using indefinite
pronoun. 6
2 test items were classified into subject-verb agreement using either, neither, other and another.
7 4 test items were classified into subject-verb agreement using third gerund
The detail explanation is on the table of the test items classification in appendix 2.
The writer gave test items in which the subjects belong to the singular forms more than in plural forms. The writer wanted to know whether the students
applied the rule of subject-verb agreements or not. Then the writer computed the percentage of the students’ mastery in subject-verb agreements. It was calculated
from their wrong answers.
iii The writer found that the highest percentage of the wrong answer was in
identifying the subject-verb agreements in which the subjects belong to the singular forms. It means that the practice on singular forms must be given more.
4.2. Data Analysis
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