vowel followed by one consonant and the last syllable of a longer verb is stressed, it must be double final consonant before adding”-ing”. It
should be “swimming”, “running”, “jogging”, and “forgetting”.
2. Evaluation of Errors
To sum up the procedure of Error Analysis, the writer would like to evaluate error gravity based on the sources of error.
This research is to know the error which student made in using gerund. Besides, by doing this research, it can measure the students’ ability in
understanding grammatical structures. Even though grammatical structure is not really important in communication, but it will be used when the
students make some kind of writing. Interlingual error can be a serious problem since it is the influence of
mother tongue. Therefore, students should be able to understand the different sentence both in two languages.
Over-generalization will be a serious problem if they cannot recognize gerund form and its uses. They also have to understand
the way to make “- ing” form correctly so they will not commit error in this area. Ignoring the
rule of misformation of “-ing” form should be considered as a crucial thing
because it will commit error in the word form. Omitting element or morpheme in word could also be a serious problem. Therefore, in case of
incomplete app lication rule omitting “consonant” the students have to
understand the rule of “-ing” because different word has different rule.
C. Data Interpretation
This step is to interpret the findings based on the analyzed data. The following table below showed the percentage of error in learning gerund.
Table 4.7. Percentage of Error in Using Gerund
No. Uses of Gerund
Frequency of Error
Percentage
1. Gerund as Subject of a Sentence
96 16.25
2. Gerund as Object of Preposition
148 25.04
3. Gerund as Direct Object of Certain Verbs
187 31.64
4. Gerund as the Complement of a Sentence
160 27.07
Sum of Errors in Uses of Gerund and 591
100
Ad apted from students’ test score
Based on the tab le of students’ errors in using gerund, it can be stated that
total errors of gerund as subject of a sentence are 96, on percentage 16.25. Total errors of gerund as object of preposition are 148, on percentage 25.04.
Total errors of gerund as direct object of certain verbs are 187, on percentage 31.64. Total errors of gerund as the complement of a sentence are 160, on
percentage 27.07. Then the writer formulated the sequence of gerund area on its high
frequency of errors.
Table 4.8. The Sequence of Gerund Tested Area Based on Its High
Frequency of Errors No.
Uses of Gerund Frequency
of Error Percentage
1. Gerund as Direct Object of Certain Verbs
187 31.64
2. Gerund as the Complement of a Sentence
160 27.07
3. Gerund as Object of Preposition
148 25.04
4. Gerund as Subject of a Sentence
96 16.25
According to the data above, it showed that most of students made errors on gerund as direct object of certain verbs with frequency of error 31.64. The
