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Students Addition Omission Misformation Misordering Student 14 - 2 4 3 Student 15 - 3 4 1 Student 16 3 2 2 3 Student 17 2 3 4 - Student 18 1 - 3 - Student 19 - 3 4 1 Student 20 1 3 4 1 Total 9 40 82 21 Total N 152 The chart below presents the highest level to the lowest of errors mostly made by the students: 6 26 54 14 Percentage of Students Errors Addition Omission Misformation Misordering Chart 4.1: The Recapitulation of Students’ Error Based on Dulay The table shows percentage of each error based on classification of Heidy Dulay, and the writer found that error of Misformation is the most frequent error made by the first grade students of SMA Dua Mei Ciputat, Tangsel with 82 of total errors or 54. The second is Omission with 40 of total errors or 26. The next is Misordering with 21 of total errors or 14. The last is Addition with 9 of total errors or 6. 2. Error Description and Explanation After presenting the error into types of errors which are written by Heidi Dulay, the writer would like to talk more about the errors of the use of Simple Past Tense in the students’ narrative text. The students’ errors are classified into four: omission, addition, misformation, and misordering. Lastly, regarding the writing format, the writer explained the table of each student’s error constructions consisting types of errors see appendix 2 in the following paragraph. Here is the complete description of the students’ errors: 1. Student 1 There are three types of error found in the student’s writing. The name teen is tono and tini and Tini comes from a very rich family are classified as misformation error since the student used incorrect verb forms in those constructions. They are supposed to be The name of teens were Tono and Tini and Tini came from a very rich family. Meanwhile, another error construction made by the student considered as omission error. The student omitted a word or a morpheme. In construction Tini very sad, I love him dad. The student missed to put a verb was in the construction and omitted a verb inflection. They are supposed to be Tini was very sad, I loved him dad. The last, the student committed misordering error such as my father agreed relationship tini and tono. It should be her father agreed their relation. 2 Student 2 There are three error constructions made by the student which are considered as omission error, such as they live in small village, it is supposed to be they lived in a small village. The student omitted the verb inflection –ed. Another error type found in the student’s writing is misformation error. They are they have a relationship and tini’s parents are very upset. The student is supposed to use had as past verb rather than have. Also in tini’s parents are very