AN ERROR ANALYSIS ON THE SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT IN ESSAY WRITING AT THE SIXTH SEMESTER STUDENTS OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF PURWOREJO IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2012/2013

Abstract

This research is to describe the types of students’ error in using subject-verb agreement in essay writing and to find out the dominant error in using subject-verb agreement of the sixth semester of English Department of Purworejo Muhammadiyah University in the academic year 2012/2013. The method of the research is used is descriptive method. This research is an error analysis to describe and present the data which will get from the students to know the students’ errors in using subject-verb agreement at the sixth semester of English Department of Purworejo Muhammadiyah University in the academic year 2012/2013. The result of this research shows that the types of errors are made by the sixth semester student of English Department of  Muhammadiyah University of Purworejo in the academic year 2012/2013 are 236 or 62,93% of omission, 28 or 7,47% of addition, 99 or 26,40% of misinformation, and 12 or 3,20% of misordering, and the dominant of error often made by the sixth semester student of English Department of Muhammadiyah University of  Purworejo in the academic year 2012/2013 is omission.

Key words: Error Analysis, Subject-verb Agreement, Essay Writing.