Analysis of Students' Error in Constructing Nominal Clause

Abstract

Errors are often understandable and susceptible for foreign language learners. It is quitepossible for whole English skills and lies in terms of pronunciation, vocabulary, or grammaticalstructure. This study was to identify the types of students’ errors in passive voice. Descriptivequalitatif of content analysis was used. The sample was 40 students of first semester in Shariafaculty. Test was given consisting of completion test and sentences building to passive voice.Descriptive analysis technique of Creswell & Brown was adapted to analyze by identifying,classifying, tabulating, and analyzing of the error. The result portrays English grammaticalcompetence of passive voice is still low because the students lack of understanding of passivevoice forms. It describes most of students make errors on simple addition which the studentshave not understood well when to be "am, is, are, was, were and be" is used. And thenomission of "to be" affecting students’ errors without putting to be "is, are" in simple present,“was, were" in simple past, and auxiliary "be" in simple future tense. Besides, auxiliary "being"in simple present continuous tense is omitted too. Furthermore, the errors appear inmisformation because the students are still confused to make sentences structurally. The errors are also founded in addition on regularization which students approximately did notmemorize regular and irregular verb. Additionally, disordering errors are marked with failure inarranging some passive voices correctly and meaningfully due to exhibit interference frommother tongue. The last, students’ errors are also in addition of double marking. Through theresult of research, the students’ errors in constructing passive voice are still a lot to do and itemerges almost all types of error analysis form.