AN ANALYSIS ON THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS’ DIFFICULTIES TO WRITE SIMPLE SENTENCES USING GERUND AT SMA N 1 KAMPUNG DALAM

Abstrak

The purpose of this research was to find out the eleventh grade students’ difficulties to write simple sentences using gerund. The design of this research was descriptive in nature. The population of this research was the eleventh grade students of SMAN 1 Kampung Dalam, Kabupaten Padang Pariaman. In selecting the sample the writer used stratified proportional random sampling. The total number of the sample was 30 students, 11 students from exact science class and 19 students from social science class. The result of the data analysis showed that the percentage of the eleventh grade students who had difficulty to write simple sentences using gerund was 25%. In detail, the findings showed that the percentage of eleventh grade students who had difficulty to write simple sentences using gerund as subject was 16.667%. The percentage of eleventh grade students who had difficulty to write simple sentences using gerund as object was 38.333%. The last, the percentage of eleventh grade students who had difficulty to write simple sentences using gerund as object of preposition was 55%.