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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis study is about the grammatical errors made by English 2 students of
the Communication Department in their written work. The data of this research
were taken from the first writing assignment of fifteen students of English 2 class.
The writer asked the help from one of the students to borrow her friends?
assignment and analyzed it. Then, on the basis of Richards? theory (1974), she
classified the errors into relevant type namely errors in the production of verb
groups, errors in the distribution of verb groups, miscellaneous errors, errors in
the use of prepositions, errors in the use of articles, and errors in the use of
questions. Concerning the analysis, the writer analyzed the errors, categorized
them based on the theory of Richard (1974) and she also provided the correct
form of the grammatical error. At the end of analysis, she found out the most
frequent error made by the subjects of this research. The result showed that errors
in the distribution of verb groups gain the highest percentage. Then, the next was
errors in the use of prepositions, errors in the production of verb groups, errors in
the use of articles and miscellaneous errors. As the conclusion, the writer thinks
that the students are still poor in grammar since there were many basic errors
occurred in their composition.