Name : Ridwan Susanto

St. Number : 2017002060

AN ERROR ANALYSIS ON THE USE OF ADJECTIVE CLAUSES

IN WRITING CONTEXT

In this modern era, the technology and science make the central of life. Both can do

something easily. How to use and develop the technology and science definitely needs good

human resource quality that is supported by mastering an international language, namely

English. The role of English gives the ease to understand many information in this world.

Without mastering English, people will get the problems understanding it both written and

spoken. First, by mastering written English, they will be able to read many information that is in

the books, magazines, newspapers, novels, etc.

In Indonesia, English is the first foreign language to be taught as a compulsory subject in

secondary school. The objective of teaching and learning English is developing four language

skills. They are listening, speaking, reading and writing. One of the elements that is taught to

support the four language skills is structure. However, the students always get some difficulties

in learning the structure of foreign language. It is caused the existence of different system of

their mother tongue in the foreign language being learned.

In learning grammar, a clause is the part that occures frequently in the English book such

textbook. “A clause may be defined in the same way as a sentence. It is full predication that

contains a subject and a predicate with a finite verb. There are two kinds of clauses; independent

and dependent. The independent clause is a full predication that may stand alone as a sentence;

the dependent clause has a special introductory word that makes the predication „depend‟ on an
independent clause.” (Frank, M, 1992: 222). Therefore, based on functions, it is divided into

three dependent clauses. One of them that should be taught by an English teacher of senior high

school is about adjective clauses. Azar, B.S (1992: 238) said that “it is a dependent clause that

modifies a noun. Likewise, it has two kinds, namely restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses.”

Nevertheless, when the students learn it, they face the problems which are caused by the lack of

knowledge in grammar especially in adjective clauses. For mastering it, the students need the

comprehension about the relative pronouns that describe a noun or pronoun.

In this case, the writer is interested in analyzing errors in using adjective clauses with the

paper entitled “An Error Analysis On The Use Of Adjective Clauses In Writing Context. The

reason why the writer chooses this title because there are many people who still get errors when

using adjective clauses. By knowing these errors that are analyzed by the writer, it is expected to

be useful in the future.

Literature Review

1. Definition of Error

According to Brown errors are part of the student’s interlingua, that is the version of the

language which a learner has at any one stages of development, and which is continually

reshaped as he or she aims toward full mastery. Therefore, Dullay stated that error is the flawed

side of learner speech or writing. Those are part of conversation or composition that deviates

from some selected norm of mature language performance.