Abstract:
Grammar is the study of the classes of words that include the whole
system and structure of a language in general. The differences grammar system
between English and Indonesia may result in translation changes. Therefore,
grammatical equivalence in translating the two languages is very important to
achieve closest meaning.
The aim of this research is to analyse of students’ mastery and seek in
what level of Eleventh grade students of SMA N 8 Purworejo in grammatical
equivalence. In collecting data researcher use valid instrument that is essay test.
In analysing the data the researcher uses descriptive qualitative data analysis.
The result shows that the average of students’ mastery get 80% . The
researcher finds it belongs to excellent criteria. The finding shows there are
20(67%) respondents got excellent level, 10(33%) respondents gained good level
and 0(0%) respondent result in fair level. To make students’ translating in
Indonesia to English is equivalence in meaning and structure, the researcher
suggests that the teacher to evaluate their way in teaching translation especially
about grammatical equivalence, so the student can avoid make same omission.
