AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ SIMPLE PAST TENSE ERRORS IN WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT AT GRADE OF X SMA NEGERI 1 SEI BALAI
Abstract
This research is about an analysis on the use of simple past tense in English narrative text made by students at grade X IPA 1 of SMA Negeri 1 Sei balai in the academic year of 2019/2020. The objectives of this research were to find out errors of using simple past tense and the dominant error in narrative text written by the X of grade students at SMA Negeri 1 Sei balai in the 2019/2020 Academic Year. The instrument of the research was documentation of the test. The research method was descriptive. The result of this research showed that there were four three of error that occurred; error of omission, error of misformation and error of misordering. The most dominant errors students made error of misformation with a total 101 errors or 72%. It is higher than half of the total of errors made by the students. The Error misformation is related to the use of the wrong form of the morpheme or the structure.
Keywords: Error, Writing, Narrative Text, Simple past tense
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