The objective of this research is to find out the types of grammatical errors made by the tenth grade students of SMAN 12 Pekanbaru in the academic year 2018/2019 in writing recount texts. This research used a descriptive method. The participants of this research were 65 students of class X MIPA 3 and class X IPS 6 of SMAN 12 Pekanbaru. The students were selected to be the sample using cluster …