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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelSuffix is a letter or sound or group of letters or sounds which are added to
the end of a word, and which change the meaning or function of the word. Suffix
is often used in the daily life writing to complete the sentence. But sometimes a
person still makes mistakes in using it. The writer wants to know about the
English suffixes used by the third year senior high school students, to what kinds
of suffixes they are categorized and also the errors they make especially in the
written texts. The writer uses the theories of affixation, suffixes, and error from
the book written by O?Grady et al. (1996), Yule (1996), Bauer (1983), Godby et
al. (1982) and Richards et al. (1985) in doing this research. She did a classroom
test to collect the data that is in the form of translation test. The writer gets the
results to answer her research questions. She found out that senior high school
students often use twelve suffixes in their daily writing activity and even though
they often use them, they still make mistakes in using them. The suffixes are
categorized into two categories that are derivational and inflectional. In producing
those twelve suffixes, they still doing mistakes.