Abstract:
This research is to describe the types of students’ error in using subjectverb
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.
