AN ANALYSIS OF THE SECOND GRADE STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING VERBAL AND NOMINAL SENTENCES IN SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE AT SMPN 3 PALEMBAYAN
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Abstract
This research was aimed at describing the second grade students’ ability in writing verbal and nominal sentences in simple present tense at SMPN 3 Palembayan. The design of this research was descriptive in nature. The population of this research was the second year students at SMPN 3 Palembayan. The sample was the students in VIII 2 and VIII 3, and the number of sample was 50 students. To take the data, the writer used grammar test in the form writing sentence test.The coefficient correlation was 0.93. Generally, the writer got mean 41.94 and standard deviation 5.58. The result of data analysis showed that the students had moderate ability in writing nominal (positive, negative, interrogative) and verbal (positive, negative, interrogative) sentences in simple present tense. In fact 11 students (22 %) had high ability, 34 students (68%) had moderate ability and 5 students (10%) had low ability.Based on the result of this research, the writer wants to give suggestion to the teachers, students, and next writers. The reseacher suggests the teacher, for students who get the higher score to defended their score and more practice in writing nominal and verbal sentences, for the students’ who get moderate ability, the reseacher suggest to increase their score in writing and differentiate between nominal and verbal sentences, and then for students’ who gets low ability, the teacher should give motivation to more active in the class, and do more exercise in differentiate nominal and verbal sentences. For students, The students should identified between the usage of nominal and verbal sentences in simple present tense, and then do more exercises to differentiate the writing about nominal and verbal sentences in simple present tense. For the readers or next reseachers, the reseacher suggest to find out the students’ problem in writing about nominal (positive,negative,interrogative) and verbal (positive ,negative and interrogative) sentences in simple present tense.
Key words: Analysis, Nominal Sentences, Verbal Sentences, Students’ Ability