Interpretation CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION

C. Interpretation

After analyzing the data of test, it can be interpreted that in mastering degrees of comparison of adjective, the students have more mastery in distinguishing the usage between comparative and superlative degree than the form of both comparative and superlative degree. Comparative degree is used to compare two person, places or things. The usage of superlative degree is to compare three or more persons, places, or things. The result of analysis shows that 42.105 of students had the mastery to differentiate the usage of both comparative and superlative degree, 16.66 of students had the mastery in the items of comparative form, and 33.77 of students had the mastery in the items of the superlative form. If the students ’ mastery of degrees of comparison is under 50 , it means that the second grade students of SMPN 3 Tangerang Selatan especially class VIII.10 had low mastery of degrees of comparison. Based on the result of interview, the most common of students’ reasons of the low mastery in degrees of comparison is that they confused which word that must be added by the prefix more or most and also the suffix -er or -st-est. According to the students’ reasons, it can be inferred that those reasons are because there is inflection or addition ways of adjective in English adjective; it differs with adjective in Bahasa Indonesia which is no inflection of adjective. According to the fact above, in my opinion the teacher should be creative and innovative to make it clear about the form and the usage of degrees of comparison. To make the comparison of adjective, we have to know the correct form for a specific adjective word. In addition, to form the degrees of comparison of adjective, we need to know the inflection or addition ways of adjective. Whether it is added by –er or –est at the end of the adjective, or preceded more- or most- before it. It depends on the length of the adjective word and on the last syllable . The teacher also should tell the students that there is inflection or addition ways of adjective in English adjective; it differs with adjective in Bahasa Indonesia which is no inflection of adjective. Moreover, in order to having the mastery of degrees of comparison, the students need more practices or exercises about degrees of comparison. 33 CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION

A. Conclusion