Abstract :
The principle purposes of the study are to identify some errors
as follows: a.) students? ability in creating verbal and nominal sentence
in writing at Muhammadiyah Manyar Elementary School b.) common
errors which exist in creating verbal and nominal sentence.
English is an international language used by many people for
communication. meanwhile The students cannot avoid the
grammatical errors in their writing. while the writing is how the
authors provide information and messages to make the reader
understand what the author thought.
Research design in this study was descriptive qualitative
research and documentation were employed in the collecting the data.
The subject of this study was the fifth grade students of
Muhammadiyah Manyar Elementary School consist of 26 students.
The results obtained by the researcher can be seen that the
students' ability in making verbal and nominal sentences is "good"
(88.47%), for "Excellent" (7.69%), while "Fair" (3, 84%), and "poor"
(0%). Most students' mistakes were made on the grammatical rules
with the lowest price of the other categories is 11.53%, Spelling
(25.17%), Capitalization (30.04%) and Punctuation (32.86%).
With this research, it is hoped that the teacher can further
develop the learning media to increase the value of the students who
get average "Good". For students must be more thorough again in the
making of sentences, especially verbal and nominal sentences. In the
future, students are no longer confused by two verbal and nominal
sentences