AN ANALYSIS OF SENTENCE FRAGMENTS IN THE STUDENTS’ WRITING AT THE THIRD SEMESTER OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF UMMAT IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2019/2020

LL. M., AINUL YAQIN (2020) AN ANALYSIS OF SENTENCE FRAGMENTS IN THE STUDENTS’ WRITING AT THE THIRD SEMESTER OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF UMMAT IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2019/2020. undergraduate thesis, Universitas Muhammadiyah Mataram.

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Abstract

A sentence fragments is a structurally incomplete sentence or part of a sentence. Therefore, this research aims at analyzing the types and investigate the most dominant type of sentence fragments made by the third semester students of English Department of UMMAT. The method of this research is descriptive qualitative because the researcher collected the data used an analysis and draw the conclusion from the analysis. The result of this research are there were 84 (eighty four) errors appeared in the students’writing. The highest frequency of error appeared in the students’ writing was the absence of verb around 37 times or 44.04% It means that the absence of verb was the most dominant error done by students. The second frequency of error that appeared in students’ writing was the absence of subject with 25 times or 29.76%. The absence of verb indicates the students still confuse to determine the subject in writing descriptive text. The third frequency of error that appeared in students’ writing was the absence of subject and a verb with 20 times or 23.80%. The absence of subject and a verb in the students’ writing showed that students were notable to make sentences with the clear meaning or do not with no ambiguity. The fourth of error that appeared in the students’ writing was the absence of subject in dependent clause with 2 times or 2.40%. The absence of subject in dependent clause in students’ writing shows that the students still confuse to make complete sentences which contain subject, verb and complete though. Key word: Sentence Fragments, Students Writing

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