CORELATION BETWEEN SIMPLE PAST MASTERING WITH NARRATIVE TEXT

MATERIAL MASTERING
A. Background

English is one of the international languages that used by many people in the world. In
Indonesia, English is taught in elementary school up to university. In English, there are many
skills are taught. They are listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Those skills cannot stand
alone. They need another language component such as grammar to support them. Without
grammar, those skills will not be perfect. For example in writing, if the students want to write a
text but they don’t understand the grammar, they will not produce a good text. According to
Klammer (2007:3), “grammar refers to a linguistic system that presumably exists in the mind of
a speaker of a language” the language that we refer to when we say that someone knows a
language. In addition, grammar is a set of implicit rules that govern the formation of sentences.
Furthermore, grammar also gives much contribution in writing text. Nordquist (2013:1) says that
correct writing simply means writing that contains no mistakes, that is, no errors of grammar,
punctuation, or spelling. In fact, good writing is much more than just a correct writing. It is
writing that responds to the interests and needs of our readers. Furthermore, mastering grammar
is essential when writing a text. The reader will not be able to understand the writing if the
grammar is not used correctly. We don't have the same immediate relationship with the reader as
we have when speaking. Many different types of text are available in the second year of senior
high school. Recount, narrative, process, descriptive, and news item text have all been learned.
Recount text, according to Sudarwati (2007:78), is used to describe what happened in the past.
The purpose of a narrative text is to amuse or entertain the reader with real or imagined events.
Procedure text serves to assist the reader in completing a task or creating something in a variety
of ways. A narrative text is similar to myths and legends, while a descriptive text is used to
describe something.