AN ANALYSIS ON THE SUBJECT VERB AGREEMENT ERROR IN WRITING PARAGRAPH DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS INSMK NEGERI 5 MEDAN

Abstract

This thesis is a study about an analysis on the subject verb agreement error in writing paragraph descriptive text at the eleventh grade students in SMK Negeri 5 Medan. The objective of the study is to analyze the types of common of errors made by the students at the eleventh grade in SMK Negeri 5 Medan in subject verb agreement in writing descriptive text. This study used descriptive qualitative research. The subject of this study are 20 students of grade eleventh in SMK Negeri 5 Medan, class XI TOKR 1. The object of this is students’ error. The instrument of collecting data used writing descriptive text test. The data were analyzed by classifying the types of errors made by the students from students’ paper, after that analyzing the common types of error made by the students. Finally, the research result showed that there are 128 errors made by the XI TOKR 1 students in writing descriptive text. Misformation error is types of errors which indicate the common error made by students. The number of misformation error are 58 and percentage is 45.4%, followed by omission error has 44 with percentage 34.4%, the third is misordering error which has 18 with percentage 14.1%, the fourth is addition error has 8 with percentage 6.1%. It can be concluded that the common type of students’ subject verb agreement errors made by the students in writing paragraph descriptive text is on misformation error.