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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis study is a qualitative study of the production of finite verb errors
made by the high school students in their compositions. The data were collected
from 30 writings which were written by the second year students of Petra 1 High
School. The errors were analyzed in term of grammatical errors of the finite verbs
(Strang, 1964), and in term of error analysis types (Littlewood, 1984). The results
showed that in terms of grammatical errors, the majority of the students made
errors in tenses, and in terms of error analysis types, many of the errors belong to
the ambiguity type. In conclusion, the findings show that the students? ambiguity
in understanding tense is responsible for their errors in producing finite verb
tenses.