AN EXAMINATION OF GRAMMATICAL ERRORS IN DESCRIPTIVE TEXT WRITING

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to find out the mistakes made by class VIII students of SMP Negeri 15 Tanjungpinang in writing descriptive paragraphs. The subjects of this study were 26 students. The method used on this research is descriptive research. The facts on this study have been taken from the writing test. In this study, the researcher used an error classification based on Azar's book, namely agreement, verb tense, spelling, article. The data was analyzed qualitatively. This research found 60 errors and the most errors were spelling.