Grammatical errors on students? writing of recount text (an error analysis at the second grade students of SMP Dharma Karya UT Pamulang)

The objective of this study is to analyze the most frequent errors made by the second grade students of SMP Dharma Karya UT Pamulang in recount text writing. The error modification in this study is divided into four categories; they are omission, addition, selection, and misordering. The respondents of this study are 20 students of the second grade of Junior High School which are taken by random sampling. The method used in this study is descriptive analysis method to describe students? errors and analyze the data by using formula: , P=Percentage, F=Frequency of errors made, N=Total of students? errors. The data was taken from the test; it was written test. The findings showed that there are 182 errors made by the students. The most frequent error made by the students in their writing recount text was selection, which consists of 114 errors or 62.64%. It is followed by omission that consists of 47 errors or 25.82%. Then, error in addition consists of 20 errors or 10.99 %. And the last, misordering error consists of 1 error or 0.55%