CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
5.1 Conclusions
After conducted this study the writer concludes that the mastery of subject-verb agreements in descriptive text by the eighth-grade students of SMP N
4 Cepiring in the academic year of 20002010 are on average level. It also proves that the hypothesis in chapter I is right, that a lot of students still have difficulties
in mastering descriptive text, its caused by their level of mastering subject-verb agreements which is taught in simple present tense. As we know that simple
present tense is the general structure of descriptive text. The students should know that descriptive text is a text is used to create
visual image of people, place, even of units of time days, times of day, or season. It may be used to describe more about the appearance of people, their
character or personality. Descriptive text reproduces the way things look, smell, taste, feel, or sound; it may also evoke moods such as happiness, loneliness, or
fear. The social purpose or function of descriptive text is to describe a particular person, place, or thing.
The writer suggested that the teaching and learning process should be repeated and the teaching plan should also be reconstructed to get better result in
the next test. The students get the problem when they have to identify the singular
or plural subject forms with the verb adding by s es. In the present tense, nouns
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and verbs form plurals in opposite ways: nouns add an s to the singular form; verbs remove the s from the singular form.
Sentences in simple present tense use simple form read, speak, study, etc and the –s form or verb type I with suffix –s or –es reads, speaks, studies,
etc. Verbs end in –s are used with third person singular subjects He, She, It, Rita, The girl, etc. The verb must be singular when a subject is singular. When a
subject is plural, its verb must be plural. When a subject is in the first, second, or third person, the verb must match to it.
Hopefully, when the students have mastered subject-verb agreements, they can apply it in writing descriptive text. So, it could be assumed that when the
students’ achievement in subject-verb agreement is better, it will influence their achievement in writing descriptive text.
We know that in the generic structure of descriptive text the tense that is used simple present tense. In simple present tense contains a lot of agreement, one
of them is subject-verb agreements. Subject-verb agreements in simple present tense consists of almost all
plural nouns end in –s or –es if the singular form already ends in –s, -ss, -ch, -sh, -z, or –x, but the verbs that agree with them do not ; almost all singular nouns do
not end in –s, but the verbs that agree with them do. The pronoun he, she, and it and all singular nouns agree with verbs
ending in –s. All other subject pronouns I, we, you, and they and all plural nouns agree with verbs that do not end in –s.
iii The writer finds that the subjects are he, she it, singaraja, the medical
staff, his father and the verbs are like, live, comb, put, make, clean, cook, sing, provide, bring, mean, consist, work, go, walk.
5.2 Suggestions
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