Kinds of Grammatical Errors Made by the Students
participant. There were also students who omitted the specific participant in their sentences. Moreover, some of the subjects of
interview omitted word ‘I’ like in the sentence ‘in holiday, go to Wonosobo’.
b Other kinds of omission errors of the second grammatical features
of recount text that is using material processes was that some of the students omitted the verb function like in the sentence
‘Yesterday, I to Jakarta’. Other omission error that the students made was that they omitted an element in the verb like in the
sentence ‘gathered’, they omitted letter ‘e’ of that sentence. c
There also were students who made omission errors in the grammatical features of using past tense. Most of the students
omitted ‘to be’ in their sentence like in the sentence ‘I very happy with that prize’. There were also students who omitted past form
characteristic that is ‘-ed’ like in the sentence ‘we exercise at gym’. d
There were also students who made omission errors in terms of grammatical features using circumstance of time and place. There
were some students who omitted ‘preposition’ like in the sentence ‘we walk garden’. Besides, there were some students who omitted
plurality sign that was letter ‘s’ like in the sentence ‘….for two day’.
e The last of grammatical features of recount text is using temporal
of sequence’ and some students also made omission error in it.
There were students who omitted the morpheme of a word like in the sentence ‘aft changing clothe…’ and in the sentence ‘nex in the
two day’. 2
The second kind of errors was Addition Error that is an error of an item existing which should not be there, an addition of the same characteristics
element in an utterance
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rror formation in using regular or irregular verb
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n error of adding some element which is not necessary and structurally is wrong. From the students’ recount texts there were some addition errors
that the students made relating to the grammatical features of recount text. a
Most of the students added ‘to be’ in their sentence in which it was not needed and structurally wrong. For example, the students wrote
‘I’m and father go to Pagentan’ and in the sentence ‘I’m and friends’.
b Other kind of addition error of the second grammatical features of
recount text made by the students was that some of the students added word ‘to’ for their verb. For example in the sentence
‘because we can to..’, ‘there I to invite’, and ‘…to swim in to a stream’.
c There were students who made addition errors in the grammatical
features of using past tense. Some students used double verb for one word in the two forms, present and past tense like in the
sentence ‘we went go home’.
d There are also students who make addition error in terms of
grammatical features using circumstance of time and place. Most of students use double letter ‘l’ for the word ‘holiday’, they write
‘last holliday’, ‘in holliday’. Besides, there are some students who adds plurality sign the letter ‘s’ which is actually not necessary like
in the sentence ‘one years’. e
The last of grammatical features of recount text is using temporal of sequence’ and some students made addition errors in it. There
were students who added a word for phrases that indicating temporal of sequence like in the sentence ‘then after ’ , ‘to arrive
there’ and x ’after for’. 3
The third kind of errors is Misinformation Error that is an error of using some morpheme or structure form, an errors of sing adjectives
demonstrative, such as this, that, those, and these, and an error of using past irregular form. From students’ recount texts there were identified
some misinformation errors relating to the grammatical features of recount text.
a There were students who used ‘apostrophe’ before letter ‘s’ for
signing the plurality like in the sentence ‘I and my friend’s’. Then there was also student who used verb ‘I’ that referred to ‘my’ in the
sentence ‘I and I friends’.
b Other kind of omission of the second grammatical features of
recount text was that some of the students used verb-ing. For example in the sentence ‘we sharing each other’, ‘I shopping’..
c There were students who made misinformation error in the
grammatical features of using past tense. Most of the students still used present tense in their recount text like in the sentence ‘we are
very excited, ‘we go to…’, ‘we take’… etc’. d
There were also students who made misinformation error in terms of grammatical features using circumstance of time and place.
There was student who wrote ‘the second day’ with ‘the two day’. Besides, there were some students who wrote ‘three day’ with ’tri
day’s’. e
The last of grammatical features of recount text is using temporal of sequence’ and some students also make misinformation error in
it. There were students who used inappropriate word that referred to this grammatical feature like in the sentence ‘pass I shopping
and lunc’. Also, there were students who used wrong word for the word ‘along’, she wrote ‘slong’.
4 The third kind of errors was Misordering Error that is an error in
structuring a good utterance by appointing a false morpheme or group morpheme. From the students’ recount texts there were some misordering
errors that the students made relating to the grammatical features of recount text.
a There were students who wrote misarranging sentence which
caused the sentence hardly to be understood, for example ‘but fruit the we to seek no there’.
b Other kind of misordering errors of the second grammatical
features of recount text was that some student could not construct a sentence in a good order and they could not put the verb in a right
position. c
There were students who made misordering error in the grammatical features of using past tense. There was a student who
wrote ‘didn’t come late, with ‘did’nt’. He used that structure in all of the word ‘didn’t’.
d There were also students who made misordering errors in terms of
grammatical features using circumstance of time and place. Lots of students wrote ‘Grandmother’s home’ with ’home grandmohter’.
Not only for that word, there were lot of students who still made error in arranging the noun phrase which had structure like in the
sentence ‘field football’, ‘graden fruit’.. etc. e
The last of grammatical features of recount text is using temporal of sequence’ and some students also made misordering error in it.
There were students who used inappropriate structure of temporal of sequence like ‘feeling late already afternoon’.