Abstract
This study is about an analysis of grammatical and mechanical errors made by the students across the three levels of writing ability: high, average, and low. The grammatical and mechanical aspects analyzed were subject-verb agreement, sentence fragment, conjunction, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. The present study aimed to find out the most common grammatical and mechanical errors and to identify the percentage of each error found in the essays. Students’ essays taken from their English writing quiz were collected as the data since they might contain grammatical and mechanical errors. This study employed textual analysis and was supported by simple calculation to determine the frequency of each error found. The data were analyzed by identifying the errors, explaining why the errors are incorrect and writing the proper corrections, and evaluating the errors to get the percentage of each error found. The results showed that the most common grammatical error found is the use of conjunction, that is around 20.6%, and the most common mechanical error found is punctuation by around 21.6%.
Highlights
In learning English, grammar is associated with four skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing (Morehouse, 2017)
The present study focused on analyzing grammatical errors in subject-verb agreement, sentence fragment, and the use of conjunction
The results showed that errors analysis in the use of Comma mostly found on Error on Direct Quotation, Error to Set off the Address, Error to Set off Parenthetical Words and Phrases, Error to Set off Tag Questions, and Error to Separate Modifiers
Summary
In learning English, grammar is associated with four skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing (Morehouse, 2017). For example, is considered as the most difficult skill to learn since it requires good knowledge about grammar and vocabulary and writing skills such as determining the structure, the content, and the organization of the essays (Richards & Renandya, 2002, cited in Hourani, 2008). Errors made by the foreign language learners are mostly found in writing since writing is the most difficult skill in language. Writing with good structure and grammatical correct is very important for everyone.
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