GRAMMATICAL COHESION IN STUDENTS' WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

Abstract

This article is about to find out the grammatical cohesion by the students in writing descriptive text. Writing involves all aspects of language such as: grammar, vocabulary, word order spelling and logical arrangement of ideas. Grammatical cohesion refers to the semantic relation and it is realized through by the using of reference, substitution. ellipsis, and conjunction. in this case, researcher found that the students only using three types of cohesion such as reference (78,17%), substitution (2,43 %), and conjunction (19,39 %) and the dominantly types that are used in writing descriptive text is reference (79,17%). Grammatical cohesion can help the students to develop their idea and opinion through writing form of language and the writer unite the students' problem in grammatical cohesion.