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THE USE OF TENSES IN READING TEXTS “LET’S TALK”
SMP TEXTBOOKS
Melisa Arimba Puspita
112007174
Satya Wacana Christian University
Abstract
This study is about tenses that are used in reading texts “Let’s Talk” of SMP
textbooks. The samples of this study were reading texts. The data were collected from the
of SMP textbook grade VII, VIII, and IX. I choose 6 reading texts from each textbooks
randomly. To analyze the data, the sentences from each reading texts were labeled or
coded,classified and interpreted. This study used descriptive research to describe the
grammatical items used in Let’s Talk VIII, Let’s Talk VIII, and Let’s Talk IX. I found that
tenses were used in the reading texts of SMP textbook were the simple past, the simple
present, the simple future, the present perfect, and the past countinuous. The study also found
that the simple past tense was the most frequently used tense in all-reading texts. The
percentage of the simple past tense in the Lets Talk VII was 44%, in the Lets Talk VIII was
51% and in the Lets Talk IX was 49%.
Keywords: Reading texts, tenses (the present tense, the past tense, the future tense, the
present perfect tense and the present continuous tense)