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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelGrammar is an essential requirement toward a succesfull result in
learning any language, including English. The grammatical error in speaking
is tolerable since people focus more on the message. On the contrary, people
have to pay more attention both to what they want to say and also how they
are going to express their ideas in writing. The grammatical errors in writing
may or will distort and disturb the coherence of the piece of writing. Using
preposition is something small but it is important to connect one word to
another. In fact some students ignore to use preposition in a right way. It is for
this reason that, the writer is eager to analyze the errors in the use preposition
produced by "English 2"students of Faculty of Letters at Petra Christian
University. The writer realizes that understanding the rules of grammar is very
important in order to write well. In her study, she wants to know what types of
preposition are produced by the student of Faculty of Communication in their
writing, which kinds of preposition errors are produced in their first writing
assignment and in their last writing assignment, and whether there are fewer
errors or even more errors in the last paper then in the first paper which is
done by the students of Faculty of Communication. The writer limits her
research on errors in using prepositions only, so she does not investigate other
errors, such as phonological errrors, spelling errors, vocabulary, punctuation
and organization. She takes only the first and last assignment paper of
"English 2" in one semester as her data. In analyzing the data, she uses
Dulay?s theory. After doing the analysis, she finds that the students of English
2 class usually use almost all types pf preposition, preposition of place and
position, preposition of time, preposition of direction and motion, preposition
following noun, preposition of manner and agent, and preposition following
verb. The students usually use preposition following verb and preposition of
time correctly. She also finds that the types of preposition usually produced by
students of "English 2" class whether in the first assignment or in the last
assignment are misuse errors. Finally she finds that there fewer errors in using
preposition in the last assignment than in the first assignment.