ERROR ANALYSIS ON THE USE OF POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS AND POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVE

Abstract

This study is aimed at finding the causes of the error made by the students in possessive pronoun and using possessive adjective. This study was conducted by applying descriptive quantitative design. The population of the research was the students of SMA Al Washliyah Tanjung Morawa in 2018-2019 Schoolm Year. There were three palalel classes. Each class consists of 29 students, so population of this research is 87 students. Cluster random is used to determined the sample. The sample of the research was 29 taken from the population. The data analysis was as follow, there are five errors found, they were omission 26,57%, addition 25,68%, ordering 11,67%, malformation 23,16% and substitution 12,92% the total number of errors were over generalization 27,64%, ignorance of rule restriction 22,98%, incomplete application of rules 10,96%, false concept Hypothesized 38,42%. The total number of errors is 557 errors on the use of possessive pronoun and possessive adjective