AN ANALYSIS OF THE STUDENT'S ABILITIES IN USING PART OF SPEECH IN WRITING A RECOUNT TEXT

This research discusses the analysis of students' ability to use parts of speech in writing recount texts in the fourth semester at SMAN 04 Palopo. The aim of this research is to determine students' ability and understanding of using parts of speech in writing recount text. In this research, researchers applied
descriptive quantitative research methods to collect and present the data obtained. The researcher used a written test in the form of a recount text based on the experiences of each class XI IPA 1 student who was the subject of the research. The population of this study were students of class the research data was analyzed
statistically to find the percentage of abilities possessed by students. Based on the results of the analysis, students' use and writing of parts of speech in recount texts showed errors in each type of part of speech in their writing. In the use of parts of
speech, there were two errors in the use of nouns, 25 errors in the use of verbs, one error in the use of adjectives, ten errors in the use of adverbs, six errors in the use of deep prepositions, four errors in the use of conjunctions, 11 errors in the use of determiners and there are no errors in the use of exclamation marks. So it
can be concluded that the most difficult type of part of speech for students in writing recount text is the use of verbs. Because there are as many as 25 meaningful errors, these errors occur more often than other types of words