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This example presented the omission of apostrophe in plural noun ending
with -s. As mentioned by Stanley 1991, an apostrophe was necessary to mark
possession. Therefore, in this example the researcher inserted the apostrophe as in
the kangaroos’ meat contains high protein and low fat .
c. Errors in Capitalization
There were errors in capitalization. It comprised of one part only. It was omission of capitalization.
1 Omission of Capitalization
The researcher discovered some omission of period in the students report text. It dealth with omitting a capital letter in the first letter of proper nouns, such
as the names of specific animals, islands, countries, and continents. Below was the example of omission of a capital letter and the correct
revision provided by the researcher: the sumatran tiger has the darkest color of the stripes see Appendix E,
text 8. revision: the Sumatran tiger has the darkest color of the stripes.
As the example given, the letter s in sumatran was not capitalized. Since it was related with Sumatra, the researcher revised to capitalize the first letter s in
sumatran as in the following sentence the Sumatran tiger has the darkest color
of the stripe .
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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
This chapter deals with two major parts. Those are conclusions and recommendations. In addition to drawing conclusions of this study, the researcher
spells out recommendations for teachers and future research.
A. Conclusions
Being the base of this study, the research problem was addressed. There was one major question formulated by the researcher. Stated in the research problem
in chapter 1, this study aimed at finding out what common errors in report texts written by the ninth year students of SMP N 2 Yogyakarta in terms of content,
organization, grammar, vocabulary, and mechanics. To solve the research problem of the study, the researcher conducted
document analysis. Here, the compositions of report text produced by ninth year students of SMP N 2 Yogyakarta became the data collection of this study. The
researcher then analyzed the data by categorizing the errors into the following: content, organization, grammar, vocabulary, and mechanics. Further, those
categories had subdivisions of error. Through a series of analysis, this study, finally, discovered the major
finding of the research. From five categories of errors which were grouped in terms of content, organization, grammar, vocabulary, and mechanics, it could be
found that the highest number of errors obtained from grammar. The second highest number of errors was organization. Mechanics was in the third place. The
