THE USE OF SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE AND ADJECTIVE IN STUDENTS' DESCRIPTIVE TEXTS

Abstract

This study was conducted to know the use of simple present tense and adjectives by students in Junior High Schools in Indramayu when writing a descriptive text. The method used in this study was Descriptive Qualitative. The procedure employed includes collecting students' work, analyzing the data, interpreting them, and concluding. The result shows that: 1) In the simple present tense, students make many errors when writing a descriptive text to describe people. The most dominant errors made by the students are omission (46%), followed by misformation (33%), then addition (20%), and finally, the misordering (1%). In the use of the adjective, the most errors produced by the students are misformation (39%), followed by omission (38%), misordering (18%), and the least is addition (5%). Students' interlanguage problem usually causes the high frequency of errors made by students. They use their native language's structure in the target language.