The students ability in identifying preposition through descriptive text at grade VII SMP N 5 Padangsidimpuan

This research was done based on the fact of the students’ problem in English grammar, the students still confused to put prepositions in the sentences and some of them failed to distinguish the use of each prepositions. Hence, the purpose of this research intended to know the students ability in identifying prepositions through descriptive text at grade VII SMP N 5 Padangsidimpuan. This research was quantitative research. The research was done at SMP N 5 Padangsidimpuan, located at Padangmatinngi, Padangsisimpuan in academic year 2019/2020. The sample was grade VII-2. The kind of this research was quantitative research by using descriptive method. The instrument of data collection was essay test form about prepositions. The description based on indicator preposition of time is indicator which has lowest score than indicator of preposition of place and preposition of direction. After the research was done, it was known that the students’ ability in identifying prepositions through descriptive text at grade VII SMP N 5 Padanngsidimpuan could be categorized into good category, with the mean score was 62.66 %. Meanwhile the hypothesis of this research was enough so it can be learn that the hypothesis was rejected, because the mean score of the students was higher than the score of hypothesis