THE ABILITY OF STUDENTS IN CLASSIFYING PRONOUNS IN DESCRIPTIVE TEXTS (STUDY CASE IN POLITEKNIK MBP MEDAN CLASS EB 020)

Abstract

Pronoun is a word that take the place of a noun. In this study just focus to personal pronoun and possessive pronoun. In this case use the descriptive text as the media to identification the pronoun because the purpose in this research is to know the ability of the students in classifying pronoun in descriptive text. The sample used is EB 020 students in politeknik MBP Medan. Data was collected by observation through to identification personal pronoun a possessive pronoun in two examples of descriptive texts and completed the sentences with personal pronoun and possessive pronoun. The writer then collected the answer sheets and give the score. The result of the research that has been carried out by the writer at EB 020 in Politeknik MBP Medan are unable to classifying pronoun in descriptive text. This can be proven by the percentage that has been found by the writer. Most of them, 10 person (59%) are unable in classifying pronouns in descriptive text. They didn’t understand how to distinguish between personal pronouns as subject and personal pronouns as object. Most of them also didn’t understand the difference between possessive adjectives and possessive pronouns. There are only 7 persons (41%) are able to understand pronouns in descriptive text. It is known that the EB 020 student can distinguish personal pronouns and possessive pronoun.