Contrastive analysis on syntactic errors in english writing skill by students of Ruhul Islam anak bangsa islamic boarding school

The objective of this research is to find the differences between English and Bahasa Indonesia focusing in passive structure sentence. Also, the purpose of this research is to make students who study English especially for passive sentence topic or also known as passive voice, easiest in learning the target language. The methodology used in this research is qualitative method. The writer gets the data by giving the students of XII grade an exercise to make a story in the two languages which in the story include three or more passive sentences. Then the writer list some sentences with passive structure of English and Bahasa Indonesia and its sign and contrast the passive structure and the distribution syntactic elements in English sentences and Bahasa Indonesia sentences. The results of study showed that the errors that mostly done by students is in the slot of predicate because of the difference between their source language and the target language. The obvious difference appear in the slot of predicate which filled by compose verbal (to be/auxiliary verb+past participle) while in Bahasa Indonesia filled by verbal with or without prefixes (di-, ter-, di-i, di-kan) there is no compose verbal in Bahasa Indonesia