The Percentage of Errors in Using Tenses.

89 She is going to been patient. She is going to be patient. 90 She is going to be being patient. 91 She is going to were patient. Normally, this sentence is nominal sentence sentence which does not have a verb at the field of Present Future Tense by using going to. If a sentence just has a complement such as noun, adverb, and adjective, we use be after going to. By looking at the students’ answers in the table, we could say that they make errors in using be. The errors are called Misinformation. Table 34: Errors of Using be No Original Reconstruction 92 I will been a good lecturer. I will be a good lecturer 93 I will being a good lecturer. These original sentences also have errors of using be as the previous table. Truthfully, the question no 29 and 3o are slightly same in using be, the only difference is in question no 29, we use adjective as its complement but in this question we use noun as its complement. To get correct sentence, we just use be after auxiliary will. The errors are Misinformation too.

4.3 The Percentage of Errors in Using Tenses.

Having finished analyzing, I make three tables as the indicator of the frequency and the percentages of the errors. Table 35: The percentage of Errors in using Tenses No Error of Tenses Frequency Percentage 1 Simple Present Tense 48 8.45 2 Present Continuous Tense 100 17.60 3 Simple Past Tense 137 24.12 4 Past Continuous Tense 168 29.58 5 Present Future Tense 115 20.25 Total 568 100 The table 35 presents data on the rate of frequency of errors made by the third year students of SMK 7 Medan in using five tenses. It will be noticed that the rate of frequency of errors in using past continuous is considerably higher than the other four tenses – Simple Present, Present Continuous, Simple Past, and Simple Future tense. Errors in using Past Continuous Tense have nominal of 29.58 from the total error of 568. So, we can conclude that the students are still lack knowledge dramatically about the grammatical of Past Continuous Tense. Table 36: Kinds of Errors No Kinds of Error Frequency Percentage 1 Misinformation 448 78.87 2 Omission 78 13.73 3 Overgeneralization 20 3.52 4 Incomplete Application of Rules 22 3.87 Total 568 100 The table 36 shows that the most kind of error made by the third year students of SMK 7 Medan is the error of Misinformation of which nominal is 78.87 . In conclusion, the students tend to use one grammatical form in place of another grammatical form. Table 37: Kinds of Error, Frequency and Percentage No Kinds of Error Frequency Percenta ge 1 Omission of Simple Present Tense 12 2.11 2 Omission Present Continuous Tense 45 7.92 3 Omission of Simple Past Tense - - 4 Omission of Past Continuous Tense 20 3.52 5 Omission of Simple Future Tense - - 6 Misinformation of Simple Present Tense 35 6.16 7 Misinformation Present Continuous Tense 47 8.27 8 Misinformation of Simple Past Tense 104 18.31 9 Misinformation of Past Continuous Tense 147 25. 88 10 Misinformation of Simple Future Tense 115 20.25 11 Overgeneralization of Simple Present Tense - - 12 Overgeneralization Present Continuous Tense - - 13 Overgeneralization of Simple Past Tense 20 3.52 14 Overgeneralization of Past Continuous Tense - 15 Overgeneralization of Simple Future Tense - 16 Incomplete Application of Rules of Simple Present Tense 1 0.18 17 Incomplete Application of Rules Present Continuous Tense 8 1.41 18 Incomplete Application of Rules of Simple Past Tense 13 2.29 19 Incomplete Application of Rules of Past Continuous Tense - - 20 Incomplete Application of Rules of Simple Future Tense - - Total 568 100 From the table 37, it can be seen clearly that the most error made by the third year of SMK 7 Medan is the “Misinformation” of Past Continuous Tense of which the nominal is 25.88.. It means that most of students make error in using grammatical form of Past Continuous Tense.

CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION