Lestari, Mita (2022) An Error Analysis On The Use Of Past Tense In The Writing Of Recount Text Of The Tenth Graders Of SMK Pelita Bangunrejo. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Metro.

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Abstract

This research is about an analysis on the use of simple past tense in English recount text made by the tenth graders of TKJ of SMK Pelita Bangunrejo. The objectives of this research were to find out errors of using simple past tense and personal pronoun in recount text written by the tenth graders of TKJ of SMK Pelita Bangunrejo and to find out the dominant errors made by the students in using simple past tense in recount text written by the first graders of TKJ of SMK Pelita Bangunrejo.

The instrument of research was test and documentation. The research using qualitative method. The result of this research showed that there are four types of error that occur; error of omission, error of addition, error of miss-formation and error of miss-ordering. The most dominant errors students made error of miss formation with total 51 errors or 54,26%. It is higher that half of the total of errors made by the students. The error miss-formation is related to the use of the wrong form of the morpheme structure.

Keywords: Error, Writing, Recount text, Simple Past Tense

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