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Intended: He joined Portugal National Football team and played in World
Cup. The examples above show that the students did not apply the appropriate
tense for their sentence. The sen tences‟ context is already past, but the students
used simple present tense context, instead.
b. Noun Inflection
This category has three subcategories. They are possessive case and noun singular and plural. Each of them has their subcategories. In this category, the
researcher intends to explain the phenomena in students‟ descriptive texts which
happened to the nouns.
1 Possessive Case
Th e researcher‟s purpose of this category is to explain the students‟ errors
of applying possessive case in their descriptive texts. The errors in possessive case are divided into twotypes. The explanation of each type of error is presented as
follows.
Table 4.10. Number of Errors in Possessive Case
No. Types of Error
Numbers
a
Addition of Possessive Case
21 b
Omission of Possessive Case 8
a Addition of Possessive Case
In the addition of possessive case, the students unnecessarily added possessive cases to the subject pronoun or other parts of sentence in their
descriptive texts. This error was found in 21 items in the students‟ descriptive
texts. The examples of this error are presented below.
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She’s wear sunglasses, white gloves, and green dress. R5 Intended: She wears sunglasses, white gloves and a green dress.
He’s have white skin and short hair. R6 Intended: He has white skin and short hair.
The examples above tell that the student unnecessarily added possessive case „s in the subject pronoun of their sentences. This error occurred because of
the students‟ grammar misunderstanding. The students perceived that their sentences are all right.
e Omission of Possessive Case
In this error, the students omitted or ignored possessive case in their sentences. This error was found in8
items in students‟ descriptive texts. The example of this error is presented below.
My aunt name is Anne. R32
Intended: My
aunt’s name is Anne.
The example above gives information that the student omitted possessive case „s of the subject pronoun. This error is considered minor, yet, it is also still
considered as a phenomena happening in the students‟ descriptive texts.
2 Noun Singular and Plural
In this part, the researcher shows the error occurred in the nouns of students‟ sentences. This error explains how the students form singular or plural
nouns in their sentences. The researcher found two types of error. The explanation of the numbers of each type of error is presented below.
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Table 4.11. Number of Errors in Noun Singular and Plural
No. Types of Error
Numbers
a
Omission of suffix -s-es to Noun Plural Form Incorrect
26 b
Addition of Suffix -s-es to Noun Singular Form Incorrect
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a Omission of suffix -s-esto Noun Plural Form Incorrect
This error occurred when the students omitted or ignored suffix –s-es of
the plural nouns. This occurrence of this error is quite frequent because this error was found in 26 items. To have a clear explanation, the researcher gives some
examples of this error. They are presented as follows.
He plays in many movie. R2 Intended:He plays in many movies.
With MU he was winning a few trophy of FA and …R13
Intended:With MU, he was winning a few trophies of FA
… The examples above show the omission of suffix
–s-es of the nouns. This kind of error needs to be taken care of.
b Addition of Suffix -s-es to Noun Singular Form Incorrect
In this error, the students did the opposite way of the previous error. Some students added suffix
–s-es to the singular nouns which obviously do not need addition of suffix
–s-es. The example of this error is presented below.
Her hair styles is ponytail and layered. R22 Her hair style is ponytail and layered.
The example above shows that the student added an unnecessary suffix –s
to a singular noun.
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3 Use of Suffix
The researcher also discovered some anomalies of suffixes in the students‟ descriptive text. The anomalies were minor compared to other anomalies. The
researcher used type of errors to describe the minor anomalies of suffixes. In order to make a concise explanation, the researcher explains all the type of errors in a
brief explanation. The explanation is presented as follows.
Table 4.12.Number ofErrors in Use of Suffix
No. Type of errors
Numbers and Examples
a Addition of Suffix
–ed 9
E.g. His talent was showned by coach of Manchester United… R13 Intended: was seen
b Addition of Suffix
– ing
3 e.g. I will describing Cristiano Ronaldo.
R23
Intended: I will describe Cristiano
Ronaldo.
The examples and the explanation above quite show that there are still found some errors in the use of suffix. Errors in use of suffix are minors, because
the errors do not dominate the error finding.
3. Other Findings
