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AN ANALYSIS OF GRAMMATICAL ERRORS IN STUDENTS’ ESSAY OF PAST
NARRATION COMIC

Evlin Yunanda Salim

Abstract
This study aimed to analyze the types of grammatical errors found in the Guided
Writing students’ essay of past narration comic. The data were collected from
17 essays. In analyzing the data, I used steps proposed by Corder (1974) in Ellis
and Barkhuizen (2005). A native speaker lecture helped identify the
grammatical errors in the students’ essay. Based on the identification of errors,
each category of errors was counted to find the types of grammatical errors
using formula P Σ 100% P=percentage, n1=total of the errors, ΣN=total of the
whole errors. Each categories of error was explained and discussed. The result
of the study show that English tenses (181 errors or 24.89%) were found to be
the most common grammatical errors followed by errors in word choice (125
errors or 17.19%), punctuations (118 errors or 16.23%), subject-verb
agreements (73 errors or 10.04%), prepositions (66 errors or 9.07%), articles (54
errors or 7.42%), singular/plurals (48 errors or 6.60%), pronoun (35 errors or
4.81%), and spellings (27 errors or 3.71%). This research concluded by
discussing the pedagogical implication.

Key words: grammatical errors, students’ essay, past narration comic