51 supported Vrooman 1967 idea saying that since thinking is sorting out and
giving order to ideas, one must find the sentence structure that establishes the proper thought relationship of ideas. And as the nature of Research Paper Writing
report itself which requires a great deal of scientific language, complex sentence construction, those containing multiple clause structure especially, will be
frequently found out. The number of complex sentences in each of the types, presented in the table above, would correspond to the number presented in the
next tables throughout this chapter. Upon identifying students’ complex sentences according to the type, the
writer identified students’ grammatical and ungrammatical complex sentence according to type.
3. Students’ mastery on complex sentence type one
Before conducting the research, the writer had given certain criteria to grade the students’ mastery. The criteria given were based on the English Education
Study Programme’s criteria of scoring. Here, the students’ mastery could be considered “Very Good,” equal to an A, if they could at least reach 80
grammaticality, “Good,” equal to a B, for 70 grammaticality at the least, “Fair,” equal to a C, for 60 grammaticality at the least, and “Poor,” equal to a D, for
lower than 60 of grammaticality.
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52 The overall findings about students’ mastery of complex sentences type one
could be observed in the following table.
Table 4.3: Sentences containing finite and non-finite noun clause Doc.
Noun Correct
Incorrect Grade
No Clauses Number
Number
1 8
7 88
1 13
Very Good 2
33 30
91 3
9 Very Good
3 8
5 63
3 38
Fair 4
21 14
67 7
33 Fair
5 9
7 78
2 22
Good 6
5 4
80 1
20 Very Good
7 4
4 100
Very Good 8
19 11
58 8
42 Poor
9 11
6 55
5 45
Poor 10
11 8
73 3
27 Good
11 12
12 100
Very Good 12
9 6
67 3
33 Fair
13 17
14 82
3 18
Very Good 14
12 7
58 5
42 Poor
15 10
7 70
3 30
Good 16
9 9
100 Very Good
17 8
7 88
1 13
Very Good 18
12 12
100 Very Good
19 14
12 86
2 14
Very Good 20
22 17
77 5
23 Good
21 35
30 86
5 14
Very Good 22
12 8
67 4
33 Fair
23 8
4 50
4 50
Poor 24
8 6
75 2
25 Good
TOT 317
247 77.9
70 22.1
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VERY GOOD :
11 students 45.83
GOOD :
5 students 20.83
FAIR :
4 students 16.67
POOR :
4 students 16.67
TOTAL :
24 students 100.00
This study found 247 grammatical complex sentences type one. It was nearly 80 of all written sentences in this type. More specifically, this study also
found out that eleven of twenty four participants obtained “very good,” while five participants obtained “good,” leaving “fair” and “poor,” each of which was
obtained by four students. Even, four participants of those obtaining “very good” obtained an excellent result with zero mistakes.
From the result, the writer could state that students’ mastery on complex sentence type one is relatively good enough.
4. Students’ mastery on complex sentence type two
