STUDENTS’ ERRORS ON THE USE OF SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE IN WRITING DAILY ACTIVITIES

Faradiba Sari Harahap

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This study was intended to find out the students’ simple present tense errors in writing daily activities. The objectives were to find out the types and the dominant types of past tense errors made by the students. In carrying out this study, the first semester students of Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineering Study Program of Tanjungbalai Polytechnic were taken as the population. The data were obtained by using a writing test and were analyzed based on the category of the types of errors.  The data analysis showed that the students made errors in using simple present tense. The types of simple present tense errors that they made were omission of verb, to be, preposition, conjunction, article, phrasal verb, subject and object,  addition of unnecessary to be, verb, adverb, and adjective, (substitution) wrong selection of using an appropriate verb, to be, adjective, and preposition, and incorrect ordering. The dominant type of errors was substitution (wrong selection) of using an appropriate verb type which occurred 46 times or 56% out of the whole errors they made.


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