Grammatical Errors in Writing Narrative Text at SMP Negeri 1 Secanggang

This study entitled Grammatical Error in Writing Narative Text at SMP Negeri 1 Secanggang, is an attempt to identify, classify, and analyze the types of errors in narrative composition produced by students of SMP Negeri 1 Secanggang. This research contributes to the understanding of error analysis, especially narrative composition errors. Ellis's theory was used to analyze errors in students' narrative composition. Data were taken from 34 students of class XI SMP Negeri 1 Secanggang by asking them to write a narrative essay at home on a piece of paper about their experiences when they were on vacation. The results of this study indicate that there are three kinds of errors made by students; they are negligence, misinformation, and misordering.


INTRODUCTION
English is the language used by countries all over the world. Indonesia is a country that uses English in communicating with foreigners, and English is included in one of the subjects in school, both elementary, junior high, and high school. Four skills in English must be taught to students, namely speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Writing is a language skill that must be possessed by students to express ideas in written form. By mastering writing narrative text, students can write or apply English language opportunities. Writing is one of the English skills taught by teachers in Indonesia to their students. Every teaching and learning syllabus includes writing as an element of learning (Harmer,) Writing is a cognitive activity that involves generating ideas, figuring out how to communicate them, and organizing them into statements and paragraphs (Nunan, 2003:88). Students learn about a variety of topics in writing class. In writing class, students learn syntax, grammar, and vocabulary, which will help them produce quality foreign language writing (Hermini, In "Correct English," J. T. Baker says "The expression 'grammatical error' sounds, and is, in a sense, paradoxical, for the reason that a form cannot be grammatical and erroneous at the same time. One would not say musical discord... Because of the apparent contradiction of terms, the form grammatical error should be avoided and 'error in construction,' or 'error in English,' etc., be used in its stead. Of course one should never say, 'good grammar' or 'bad grammar.'. "We believe, as do most linguists, that native speakers do not make mistakes," per Peter Trudgill and Lars-Gunnar Andersson, who were quoted in "Errors in Language Learning and Use." the language, the language users collectively decide to continue to use their language or to use their vernacular. According to Holmes (2008) explains that where a migrant minority group moves to a predominantly monolingual society dominanted by one group language in all the major institutional domains such as schol, TV, radio, newspaper administration, court, the language shift will be unadvoidable. Those means that the government policies concerning language use in all institutional domains has significant implication for language maintenance.

RESEARCH METHOD
This study relies on qualitative data. Qualitative research, according to Sugiyono (2005), is study that uses the researcher as the primary instrument to investigate the status of natural objects. Quantitative research differs from qualitative research in that it begins with data, uses existing theories as explanatory material, and concludes with a theory. Qualitative research seeks to understand phenomena by collecting extensive data. The depth of data gathered by researchers is emphasized in qualitative research. The higher the quality of the research, the more in-depth and detailed the data acquired. The focus of this study is on grammatical faults in narrative material.

FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS
In this section, the researcher applies the error analysis theory of Ellis (1998) to the grammatical faults committed by grade IX pupils at SMP Negeri 1 SECANGGANG, which was identified in the previous chapter. The types of errors such as omission errors, disinformation, and misordering were then discovered based on the data. The sorts of grammatical errors made by students were then grouped into each error, as follows:

1) Omission Error
According to Ellis (1998), an omission error occurs when a word or grammatical ingredient is missing from a grammar phrase. The following are the types of omission errors discovered:

a. Error Omission to be
To be is made up of three parts, and it is used for the subjects She, He, and It. The words you, we, and they are used for the subjects You, We, and They, but I is solely used for the subject I. In addition, there are other types of to-be such as was, be, were, and been which are used according to the existing tenses. The example sentences above are omitted to be. In the example experiencing the loss of tobe is. The following is an example of an error sentence using the form to be: Yesterday Wednesday our school…. The example snippet above should be: Yesterday was Wednesday, our school……

b. The Error of Omission of the Genitive Possessive (apostrophe ' ) which states the meaning of belonging.
According to Gitamedia (2006), an apostrophe is used when the name of the object or the name of the person who is the owner ends with the letter "s", and if not, the apostrophe + s ("s) is used.

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The sentences below have the apostrophes omitted in the words Dodi and parent which express the meaning of belonging. The error in the omission of the Genitive Possessive (apostrophe) which states the meaning of belonging can be seen in the example sentences below: Dodi's favorite class is English. Example sentence fragments should be: Dodi's favorite class is English.

c. Preposition Omission Error
A preposition, according to Baehaqi (2009), is a word that comes before the word object or a noun phrase to define the item's location or position. The preposition excluded is omitted in the example phrases below, while the words island and north Sumatera are misplaced. The following is an example of a preposition omission error: In the North Sumatra Island The example snippet above should be: In the island of sumut d. Error Missing Article " the " The article "the", is a definite article that is used to refer to individual nouns. In the example sentence below, there is an error in the omission of the article "the". The error for omitting the article " the " is in the example below: Love at first sight...
An example of this sentence should be: Love at the first sight...

e) Misinformation
According to Ellis (1998), The use of an improper grammatical form is known as misuse of the form (misinformation). The following are the categories of errors encountered in the usage of forms:

f) Misuse of Possessive Adjective Forms
A possessive adjective is a word that can be used to express who owns something. Possessive adjectives are always followed by the thing with which they are associated (Gitamedia, 2006). In the example sentence, there is an error in using the possessive pronoun form, the word she's should be her. Errors in the use of possessive adjectives can be seen in the example sentences below: She"s name is mia The example sentences above should be: Her name is mia g) Misuse of the form to be To be is an auxiliary verb in English that can be used to denote the presence of an accompanying subject or to substitute for a verb (Gitamedia, 2006). In the example sentence, there is an error in using to be in the past tense ware, the sentence should use to be am because it uses the present tense. Errors in the use of the form to be can be seen in the examples below: