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AN ERROR ANALYSIS ON THE USE OF SIMPLE PAST TENSE IN WRITING NARRATIVE TEXT
Herlina Widiastuti
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Abstract
Widiastuti, Herlina.2020. “An Error Analysis on The Use of Simple Past Tense in
Writing Narrative Text”. A Graduating Paper. English Education
Department of Teacher Training and Education Faculty State Institute
for Islamic Studies (IAIN) Salatiga. Couselor: Hanung Triyoko, S.S.,
M.Hum., M.Ed.
This study is about an analysis of using simple past tense in writing narrative text
made by eleventh grades students of SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Ngawi. The result of
this research showed that there are four types of errors that made by students.
There are: error of omission, error of addition, error of misformation, and error of
misordering. From the data analysis, the researcher found that the dominant error
is error of misformation with 40% or 14 errors and the lowest error is error of
misordering with 8,57% or 3 errors.
Key words: Error, Writing, Simple Past Tense, Narrative Text.