Verb Frequently of Infinitive without To after auxiliariesmodals
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Finally, the lowest frequency of error is in simple present tense. Percentage of error from these is 39.25 . The students still confused of
subject verb agreement. And the highest error made by 30 students is 55.55 the error made by students in distinguish between singular and plural verb
in simple present tense. From her research, Leti Lisdianty could be concluded that 20.14 of XI
Grade of SMA PGRI 56 Ciputat, found the difficulties in distinguishing gerund and 34.22 of XI Grade of SMA PGRI 56 Ciputat , found the
difficulties in distinguishing present participle. From her research, Ade Laili Akhiliyyah showed the test consist of 10
complete the sentences and 10 multiple choices and each number of gerund is put in random. From the result of analysis , the highest percentage of
difficulties is in using gerund as object of certain verbs is 39 and the lowest percentage of difficulties is in using gerund as subject of a sentence is 33
and all of them caused by external and internal factors. From her research, Insanul Kamelia showed the frequency of the errors
occurs in the students in distinguishing gerund and present participle from 1350 sentences collected from 45 students it is found 376 errors : selection
errors 73.41 and addition errors 26.59 . It is clearly shown from the types of error explained that the most common errors committed by the students is
selection which reaches 73.41. From his research, M. Chotib Firdaus showed that there were 96 errors or
16.25 students made errors in using gerund as subject, 148 errors or 25.04 students made errors in using gerund as object of preposition, 187 errors or
31.64 students made errors in using gerund as direct object of certain verbs, and 160 errors or 27.07 students made errors in using gerund as
complement. The writer also classified the types of errors made by the students, from 591 errors, 424 of them are misinformation. This types of
errors contributed 71.74 to whole scores. Next type is omission, the total of its errors is 123 or 20.18. The last type is addition, only 44 or 7.45 errors
in this type.
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