An Analysis of Sentence Fragment in Writing Narrative Text at The Eleventh Grade of Senior High School.

Abstract

This research investigated the students ability in writing narrative text. The title of this research is an analysis of sentence fragment in writing narrative text. This research is aimed: 1)to figure out the types of sentence fragment are written by the students in eleventh grade of senior high school. 2)to figure out the dominan types of sentence fragment are written by the students in writing narrative text in eleventh grade of senior high school. The method of this research is qualitative research which uses some techniques to collect the data. The object of this research is the eleventh grade of senior high school. There were fifteen of students as a sample. The data were obtained through the students paper. The result showed that the students write 4 types of sentence fragment including: a fragment results when the subject is omitted were 7 sentences or 11% from all students writing , a fragment results when the verb is omitted were 32 sentences or 52 from all students writing, a fragment results when the subject and complete verb are omitted were 5 sentences or 8% from all students writing and a fragment occurs when a dependent clause is capitalized and punctuated as a sentence were 18 sentences or 29% from all students writing. So, a fragment results when the verb is omitted become the dominant type in this research.