Grammatical Errors found In Student Of English department’s Essay

ABSTRACT

This thesis dealtwith theanalysis ofgrammaticalerrorfound inStudents’ Essay.
objectivesofthestudy
weretofindoutthetypesofgrammaticalerror,themost
dominanttypeofgrammaticalerrorandtheimpactsofitforreaders.thisanalysis
wasconductedbyusingdescriptivequalitativemethod.objectofthisanalysiswas
thestudents’essay
ofenglishdepartmentwhichconsistsoftwenty
(20)essays.therewerenine(9)grammaticalerrors
whichbecamethefocus
in
this
analysis,namely:
subjectverbagreement,singularplural,toinfinitive,passivevoice,
forms of adjective,redundancy,preposition,parallelstructure,and misplacedword.The
findings showed that there were nine (9) types of grammatical error found in
Students’Essay,theywere:subjectverbagreement30items(28.84%),preposition
23 items (22.11%), passive voice 14 items (13.46%), singular plural 10 items
(9.61%), to infinitive9 items (8.65%), forms of adjective5 items (4.80%), redundancy
5items(4.80%),misplacedword5items(4.80%),andparallelstructure

3 items (2.88%).SubjectVerbAgreementwas proven tobethemostdominant
grammaticalerrorinthestudents’essay anditmadereadersconfusedtounderstand the
essays.

Keyword:grammaticalerror, essay

ABSTRAK

Penelitian iniberkaitan dengan analisaakangrammatical error akan Students’ Essay.
Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menemukanjenis-jenis kesalahan
penggunaankatadalamkalimat,grammatical erroryang paling mendominasi,dan
dampakbagipembacaketika merekamenemukangrammatical errorspadaStudents’
Essay.Skripsiinimenggunakanmetodedeskriptifkualitatif.Bahanuntukskripsi
ini
adalahStudents’EssaydariJurusanInggrissebanyak20essay.Adasembilan(9)
jenisgrammatical error yangmenjadifokus skripsi ini,yaitu:subjectverb agreement,
singularplural, toinfinitive,passivevoice, formsof adjective,redundancy, preposition,
parallelstructure,
danmisplaced
word.

Penemuan
menunjukkan
bahwa
ada9jenisgrammaticalerroryangditemukandiStudents’Essay,yaitu:
subjectverb
agreement30kalimat(28.84%),preposition23kalimat(22.11%),
passivevoice14
kalimat(13.46%), singular plural10 kalimat(9.61%), toinfinitive9 kalimat(8.65%),
formsofadjective5kalimat(4.80%),redundancy5kalimat(4.80%),misplaced
word5kalimat(4.80%),and
parallelstructure3
kalimat(2.88%).SubjectVerb
Agreementterbuktimenjadigrammatical erroryang paling dominanpadaStudents’
Essay
danhalinimembuatpembacakesulitanuntukmendapatkanmaknadariessay
tersebut.

Katakunci:kesalahan kata, karangan bebas