dc.description.abstract | Subject Verb Agreement Errors isan agreement between subject and verb. If the subject is singular, so the verb is singular and also if the subject is plural, so the verb is plural too.The objective of the study is to analyze the types of common of errors made by the students at the eleventh grade SMA SingosariDelitua Medan in subject verb agreement in writing narrative text. This study used qualitative research. The subject of this study are 20 students of grade eleventh SMA SingosariDelitua, class XI IPA 1.Theobject of this isstudents’error. The instrument of collecting data used writing narrative 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 are 174 errors made by the XI IPA 1 students in writing narrative text. Misformation error is type of errors which indicate the common error made by students. The number of misformation error are 65 andpercentage is 37,3%, followed by omission errors has 55 with percentage is 31,7%, and the third is addition errors has 36 with percentage is
20,7%, the fourth misordering error has 18 with percentage 10,3%.From the explanation above, it shows that the errors of misformation reached the highest frequency, followed by errorsof omission, errors of addition and the last misordering in this study. Here are some reasons why the most dominant error of misformation:Errors in the use of the wrong form of morpheme or structure. In misformation, students provide and give something, even though it is not true at all. Wrong in forming the construction of a word, phrase, or sentence. | en_US |