Errors on the use of adversative conjunction

16a Some of the women believe by doing abortion, they can decrease the number of people growing in their country. They can control the population by doing it. On the contrary, some women assure that abortion is a kind of crime. The corrected paragraph taken from text No.29, paragraph 5 line 1

2. Errors on the use of adversative conjunction

In this conjunction category, the researcher found some examples of errors. It will be analyzed in the following explanation. 17 After looking at the different points of view from the passengers, I think the government should resolve this case in order to there is no passenger that complain with the agent of public transportation because they cannot get tickets to go back Taken from text No 1, paragraph 2, and line 1 The conjunction “in order to” here is not appropriate. The clause “there is no passenger that complaint with the agent of public transportation ” is the result or effect if the government resolve this case the problem of ticketing. Therefore, the appropriate conjunction is “in order that”. There is an error in the sentence above which we call it run on sentences. It means that a sentence consists of two or more main clauses and the clauses are joined without proper punctuation marks or conjunction. Run-on sentences can be attributed to a number of causes, including not knowing how to use conjunctions appropriately and not understanding the differences between dependent and independent clause. In the above sentences there are four clauses that connected in one sentences. It can be difficult to understand for the reader and also disturb the flow and the cohesiveness of the text. Therefore, the student must split the clauses into 2 sentences. The correction of the sentence can be seen as follows: 17a After looking at the different points of view from the passengers, I think the government should resolve this case. So, there is no passenger that complains with the agent of public transportation because heshe cannot get tickets to go back. The next examples of error on the use of adversative conjunction are caused by over-use of adversative conjunction. In this sentence, the student used adversative conjunction “although” and “but” together in one sentence. 18 Although they cannot be with their children 24 hours, but with good communication and harmony between parents and their children will keep them into bad things like promiscuity. Taken from text No.9, paragraph 5, and line 3 The adversative conjunction “although” and “but” function to express contrast between two conditions. However, the two conjunctions cannot be used together in one sentence. They have to stand alone because if “although” is already applied then the conjunction “but” is not necessary to be applied anymore. If the two conjunctions are applied together, it will disturb the cohesiveness of the text. Therefore, the sentence can be written as follow: 18a Although they cannot be with their children 24 hours, with good communication and harmony between parents and their children, it will keep them into bad things like promiscuity.

3. Errors on the use of causal conjunction