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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelIn this study the writer focuses on the syntactic errors found in the
compositions, kind of assignments in class, written by twenty engineering
students of Petra Christian University during two hours. This study is done to find
the types of syntactic errors and the frequencies and the percentages that occur to
know the engineering students? capabilities in mastering English rules and the
area of difficulties in learning English structures. By using a descriptive approach,
the writer collects all syntactic errors found in students? compositions. Then, the
data is analyzed and classified based on some relevant underlying theories as seen
from the first to the twentieth without any comparison among them. The findings
show that there are eight groups of errors which consist of thirty-three types and
several sub types. By counting the frequencies and the percentages of the types,
the readers can know the most common type until the least one. There are three
most common types namely errors in determiners, errors in number and errors in
the use of prepositions. Concerning to the result of this study, the engineering
students need to improve their English skills. The teachers also have to improve
their teaching way and give more exercises to the students.