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2. The Data Analysis of the First Question
Below is the data analysis based on the students’ descriptive writing which concerned on the grammatical errors made by the seventh grade students. The first
rank on the grammatical errors was Subject verb agreement, and then continued by Verb tense, Vocabulary, Articles, Word class, Sentence structure, Spelling,
Singularplural , and the last Punctuation.
a. The Data Analysis of Subject Verb Agreement
There were 55 students out of 58 students who made error on Subject verb agreement with total percentage 93.18. Below are the examples of the errors
made by the students. Many of the students did not pay much attention on the usage of the first
or third person and their verb agreement. For example:
• Incorrect sentences - She teach English.
- I has English teacher. - Mrs. Suci live with her family.
- She always wearing woman Moslem wear. • Corrected sentences
- She teaches English. - I have an English teacher.
- Mrs. Suci lives with her family. - She always wears Moslem women clothes.
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Tense, the verb agreement has to use verb one plus –s or –es. It is also used for subject ‘He’ and ‘It’. However, for subject ‘I’, it is a first person singular, and
instead of using ‘has’ for the verb agreement, it uses ‘have’. From this analysis, in point of fact, many of the students have lack of
awareness. Some of the sentences were correct, but because of carelessness some sentences became incorrect.
b. The Data Analysis of Verb Tense
As many as 46 students made a mistake with the verb tense. The percentage was 77.14. The examples of the verb tense mistakes are:
• Incorrect sentences - She always take a veil every day.
- She is always employ veil every teach. - Mrs. Suci has is beautiful.
- She also very discipline.
• Corrected sentences - She always wears a veil every day.
- She always wears a veil while teaching. - Mrs. Suci is beautiful.
- She is also very disciplined.
In this section, the students chose the wrong verbs or “to be” to make the sentences. This happened because the students have lack of knowledge in
choosing the correct verbs for the sentences they made. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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c. The Data Analysis of Vocabulary
The next analysis was the vocabulary with the percentage 60.6 and the total students are 36. Students, in their writing, often choose the wrong words to
explain about certain things. The examples are below:
• Incorrect sentences - … because we not answer the question with true.
- She is not height. - She is wild because she want the student clever English.
- She is a guardian class seven C. • Corrected sentences
- … because we don’t answer the question correctly. - She is not tall.
- She is disciplined because she wants the students to be smart or
clever in English.
- She is the counselor of class seven C.
Students in translating the words from Indonesian to English were still influenced by Bahasa Indonesia. As a result, they translated the sentences and the
meaning of the sentences sounded ‘strange’ because they were ‘too Indonesian’. To avoid this, the students should enrich their vocabulary by reading more
English books. They can also find the synonyms of certain words in the dictionary.
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d. The Data Analysis of Articles
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