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An Analysis On Grammatical Errors In Writing Paragraph By The Second Semester Students At English Study Program Universitas Riau
This study was conducted to analyse the grammatical errors made by
second semester students in writing paragraph atthe English Study Program of Universitas
Riau. The aim of this study was to find out eight types of common grammatical errors they
are Passive Voice, Verb Tense and Form, Subject- Verb Agreement, Word Order,
Preposition, Articles, Plurality, and Auxiliary that made by the participants of the
study.Writing a paragraph test were administered to twenty seven participants. They were
asked to write a paragraph in 90 minutes and based on the three topics provided by the
writer. Three raters were involved in checking the grammatical errors on the participants’
paragraph writing. Then, the errors were classified and described. From the analysis, it
was obtained that the participants of study made 80 errors. They were errors in terms of
Verb Tense and Form (32.50%), Plurality (21.25%) and Subject-Verb Agreement
(12.50%). The lowest percentage of errors was in terms of Word Order (5%) and Passive
Voice (5%).Thus, it needs more concern on these aspects. Moreover, the other errors are
need to be focused as well. It is recommended thatother reseachers find the reasons of
those comitted errors.
Key Words: Error Analysis, Grammatical Errors, Writing Paragraph
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