An Analysis of Grammatical Mistakes in Students’ Writing

This study is aimed to identify grammatical mistakes and to find out what aspects of grammar mostly made by the students. The researcher only focused on investigating three aspects of grammar namely; tenses, personal pronouns, and subject verb agreement. The methodology which was used is a qualitative approach. The source of data was documents, which are 19 students‟ writing of the third semester students of English Language Education, UIN Ar-raniry. The technique of collecting data was document analysis. In the result, the researcher found some grammatical mistakes in students‟ writing. From the three aspects of grammar, the researcher found that are 88 mistakes in tense, 30 mistakes in subject verb agreement, and 6 mistakes in personal pronoun. The most mistakes made by students were tenses, which is 70.97%.