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CHAPTER II REVIEW OFLITERATURE
2.1 RelatedStudies
Previousstudiesareneededto helpthewriter in completing thethesis.Some of theprevious studiesare:
Prambandarie2008inherthesis entitledAnAnalysisOnPrimarySchool Students’ AbilityTo
Use Personal
Pronouns: ACaseStudyOn TheSixth
Year StudentsOfSDNNO.101878
Tg.Morawa,concludesthat thisstudyismainlyaimed
atdescribingthestudents’ability tousepersonalpronouns.Thestudentswhohave
very goodabilityinusing personalpronounsassubject are11students36,7 outof
30respondents,9students30outof30respondentshavegoodability inusing
personalpronouns as subject.6students 20outof30respondentshaveaverageability inusingpersonalpronounsassubject,4students13,3outof30 respondents havepoor
abilityin usingpersonalpronounsas subject. Batubara2009inherthesisentitledAnErrorAnalysisofAuxiliaryVerbs Madeby
the20062007 Ninth GradeStudentsofMadrasahTsanawiyahAl-Ullum
Medan,concludesthatthemosterrormadeby studentsistheusingofdo36,26,
theusingof be32,90, and an errorin usinghave30,84. Pujiasi2010in her thesisentitledThe ErrorsofUnityandCoherence in Writing
English ParagraphMadebyTheSixthSemester Students ofD-3
English StudyProgramofUSU,concludesthat
theerrorsare appearedespeciallyinusing
the unityelements. There are24,03 37errors and 75,97 117 errors.
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Napitupulu2010inherthesisentitledAnErrorofUsingAdverbsbythe EleventhYearStudentsofSMANegeri7Medan.Basedonherresearch,thereare
someerrorswhichmadeby studentsomission21,12,misinformation25,35,
misordering23,94,and overgeneralization 29,57. Rukiah2011inherthesisentitledAn ErrorAnalysisInUsingPassiveVoice Made
ByEleventh YearStudents OfMAN 1 Panyabungan, concludesthat theprocess ofteaching andlearning EnglishPassiveVoiceinMAN1Panyabunganisgood enough, but
itneedsto be improved to decrease thenumber of errorsin using passive voicewhichmadebythestudents.Shefindsthemosterrormadeby
studentsin simplefuturetense27,75,simplepasttense26,59,andthe
lastissimple present tense20,23.
Achirani2011inherthesis entitledAnError Analysis ofUsingPresent Tense Made by Students of Second Year Junior High School of Madrasah TsanawiyahAl-
Washliyah16Perbaungan,concludesthatthemosterror madeby studentsinpresentperfect continous93,27,simple present75,74.Present
Perfect69,28,and presentcontinous61,71.
Djayanti2012 in her thesis An Error Analysis Of The Use Of Simple SentenceMadebyTheNinthGradeStudents ofSMPNegri2
Pancur Batu,concludes
thatsomany problemswhichmadeby ninthgradestudentsofSMPNegri2Pancur Batu.Shefindsoutthemosterrormadebystudentsisformationerrors,involves: preposition,
conjunction, noun, adverb, adjective,
gerund, modals, be,
article, pronoun,anddeterminer48,52,arrangingerrors,involves:misorderingofverb
phraseandmisorderingofnounphrase19,95,deductionerrors,involves:-ing, article,verb,preposition,reflexivepronoun,pronoun,determiner,possesivemaker,
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and be 25,15, adding errors, involves:determiner, plural maker ses, -ing, modal,be,possesivemaker, verb,preposition,pronoun, adjective,article,noun, third
personsingularverbmaker11,39.So, theconclusionistheabilityinusing
simple sentencesof studentsin SMPnegeri2 Pancur Batu isnotgood.
2.2 GeneralConceptof TheSimple Past Tense 2.2.1 TheUnderstandingof Tense