Error Analysis in the Use of Simple Past Tense in Writing Narrative Text by Grade VIII Students of SMPN 3 Air Putih

The purpose of this study is to analyze of student’s errors on the use of
past tense in Narrative text based on the problem that students felt confused about
using past tense in their writing especially Narrative text. The method of the
study is qualitative descriptive. The researcher choose the grade VII students of
SMP Negeri 3 Air Putih as the subject of study. The result showed that the
researcher found four types of errors : omission, addition, misformation,
misodering. Then, the researcher found the highest error made by students is
misformation with 52,6 % percentages. This problem was influenced by student
feeling which felt confused to understand simple past because they did not know
the meaning and differences between regular verb and irregular verb. Therefore,
students claimed if they were seldom to practice writing paragraph.