Addition Errors Made by The Tenth Grade Students of SMA GAMA
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indicate the possessive form. As a matter of fact, the possessive pronoun of “it” should have been “its”. Thus, the sentence should have been “Its name is chika”.
Table 4.1.5 The Classification of ArchiAlternating Forms
No. ArchiAlternating Forms
Errors
1 Subject Pronoun
She is very cheerfull. Ganis 16 years old. He lives with his family
in Kaliurang.
2 Preposition
Her hobbies are listening of the music and singing.
3 Quantifiers
Ganis is a pretty young women. 4
Gerund I miss laugh and kidding.
5 Demonstrative
Her nickname is Dila. Dila was born on 3 may 1999. Her become
from Ternate.
The analysis of table 4.1.5 goes as follows. a.
Subject Pronoun The example taken from the descriptive text of student number 2 was She
is very cheerfull. Ganis 16 years old. He lives with his family in Kaliurang. The researcher took two sentences from a descriptive text writing of a
student to analyze the subject pronoun error. Two sentences were required to see subject pronoun error. From those three sentences, each sentence had one subject.
In the first sentence, the writer used “she” as the subject, in the following sentence the writer used “Ganis” as the subject while in the last one the writer wrote “he”
as the subject. The second and third sentences would not be claimed as correct, otherwise the subject of the second and the third sentence was resembled to the
first one. In short, the sentences should have been “She is very cheerfull. She is 16 years old. She lives with his family in Kaliurang”.
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b. Preposition
The example taken from the descriptive text of student number 34 was Her hobbies are listening of the music and singing. From the sentence Her
hobbies are listening of the music and singing, a preposition error was discovered. The researcher noticed that the word “of” was regarded as the incorrect
preposition in the sentence. To make the sentence more acceptable, the preposition should have been replaced by “to”. It resulted “Her hobbies are
listening to the music and singing”. c.
Quantifiers The example taken from the descriptive text of student number 2 was
Ganis is a pretty young women. In quantifiers error, the student failed to deal with neither plural nor singular form. The example showed that the student wrote
down a pretty young women. This kind of error could not be regarded as addition because if the article “a” before “pretty young women” was omitted, the
sentence was still unacceptable. Thus, the sentence should have been “Ganis is a pretty young woman”.
d. Gerund
The example taken from the descriptive text of student number 7 was I miss laugh and kidding. That example sentence showed that the student failed to
form a gerund after the verb “miss”. The writer had successfully dealt with gerund in forming “kidding”, instead of “kid”. Unfortunately, the writer’s inability to
alter “laugh” to be a gerund form became the main concern. If the writer was able to alter “laugh” to “laughing” as the writer did towards “kid”, the sentence could
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have been correct. In other words, the sentence should have been formed as “I miss laughing and kidding”.
e. Demonstrative
The example taken from the descriptive text of student number 32 was Her nickname is Dila. Dila was born on 3 may 1999. Her become from Ternate.
According to Dulay et al. 1982, the learner may select one member of the personal pronouns class to function for others p.160. Through the example, it
was showed that the word “her” has previously appeared. Afterwards, the student was determined to function the same personal pronoun to be the subject of the
next sentence. The personal pronoun in the latter sentence should have been changed into “she”. Thus, the sentence should have been “Her nickname is Dila.
Dila was born on 3 May 1999. She comes from Ternate”.