ERROR ANALYSIS OF THE SENTENCE TYPES IN WRITTEN DESCRIPTIVE TEXT DONE BY ENGLISH DEPARTMENT STUDENTS OF UNIVERSITAS PGRI SEMARANG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2019/2020

Widhianto, Eka Setia. 2021. Error Analysis of The Sentence Types in Written
Descriptive Text Done By English Department Students of Universitas PGRI
Semarang in The Academic Year 2019/2020. Final Project, English Education
Department, Faculty of Language and Arts Education, University of PGRI
Semarang. Advisor I: Dra. Siti Lestari, M.Pd. Advisor II: Rahmawati
Sukmaningrum, S.Pd, M.Pd.
This research is a conducted research dealing with writing error under the title
“Error Analysis of The Sentence Types in Written Descriptive Text Done By
English Department Students of Universitas PGRI Semarang in The Academic
Year 2019/2020.
This study is merged between qualitative and quantitative. The qualitative
approach was analyzing the data of descriptive text made by students at
Universitas PGRI Semarang in the academic year 2019/2020 and the quantitative
to accumulate the data in the table to find the dominance sentence and its error.
There were two types of data in this research. The first data were students’ paper
work that contain descriptive text, and the second data is the dominant sentence
error of the texts. To collect the data, the total sampling technique was applied.
The result of the analysis showed that there were four types of sentence found;
simple sentence with 110 data, compund sentence with 57 data, complex sentence
with 28 data, and compound-complex sentence wih 15 data. It makes simple
sentence as a dominant sentence found in the research. The grammatical error
found in the research are; fragments with 22 data. It means that sentence fragment
was the most dominant error done by students. Thus, from simple sentence found
in total 110 data, fragment has come as the dominant error of the sentence with 22
data. Sentence fragment appears due to the absence required in a complete
sentence. It means that English department Students of Universitas PGRI
Semarang in academic year 2019/2020 still did not understand how to make
sentence correctly. Compound sentence found in total 57 data and sentence
fragment in compound sentence found 13 data. Run-on and comma splice in
complex sentence found in total 7 data . Run-on sentences and comma splices
appear due to the wrong in combining two independent clauses. Complex
sentence found in total 15 data and 7 data found in run on of complex sentence.
Keywords: grammar, writing,descriptive text, sentence error