Background of the Study

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

A. Background of the Study

Graduation is a main purpose for every student especially who is in the last semester of the final academic year. To graduate, every student has to study hard. Of course, there are some subjects of examination which students must have. Here, the writer focuses on students who are in the third grade of senior high school as they are the main respondents of the writer’s research study. The students are supposed to understand all subjects which become the standardization of middle and final exam such as Math, English and Indonesian Language. However, here, the writer focuses on English as the research study. English is a very important language for those who want to pursue a career in the international world. Therefore, it is also important for students who want to graduate. They should follow English courses or Bimbingan Belajar because English is also one of subjects at schools which will be examined. To pass examination well, teachers and parents suggest students to follow Bimbingan Belajar or institution courses, such as Primagama, Ganesha Operation, Nurul Fikri, at cetera. Their role is very important in helping and guiding their participants can be successful in passing in school’s exam. The institution places not only help the students conduct the school’s exam easier but also participate to make their study better. Essays or questions which every institution places give are almost same as schools give. It is English standardization which always appears in school’s exam such as Concord or Agreement, Tenses, Conditional Sentences, Subjunctive, Modal and Modal Perfect, Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary, Dependent and Independent Clause, and Word Order. Unfortunately, schools have not taught or even do not teach the students about them in detail, but the course places give comprehension more detail and make the students understand. Therefore, the writer intends to conduct the research on students at one of the course places namely “Primagama”. It is about “How students understand every essay or questions given, especially the writer focuses on understanding about Subjunctive. Subjunctive is one of English subjects which usually appears on essays of the middle and final exam of schools. Actually, not only subjunctive is difficult but also the others are. Subjunctive is a sentence expressing a wish which is opposite with a fact, it is usually signed by “wish, if only, would rather” or expressing a condition which is not true dealing with a fact. It is signed by “as if” and “as though”. For example, I wish she were here. The example can trap the students into incorrect answers because as far as they know “he” collocates with “is or was” as the ConcordAgreement. According to their opinion, they might write the following sentence “I wish she is here or I wish she was here ” but in subjunctive, whatever the pronoun subject the predicate is were or had been in simple past or past perfect tense form. This makes the students wrong in choosing the correct answers. Due to, in this research the writer hopes the students more understand about subjunctive.

B. Focus of the Study