Abstract:
This study deals with an analysis of grammatical cohesion on the students’
narrative writing. The objectives of this study were to find out the types of
grammatical cohesion that are used on the students’ narrative writing and to
derive the dominant types of grammatical cohesion on the students’ narrative
writing. The writer took narrative text written by senior high school grade XI. As
the data class consisted of 24 students. The researcher took all the students writing
as the source of the data. This research was conducted by using qualitative
research. They were four types of grammatical cohesion, namely (1) reference, (2)
substitution, (3) ellipsis and (4) conjunction. The findings of this study showed
that all types of grammatical cohesion are used and can be found on the students’
narrative writing. The total number of grammatical cohesion is 358 (282
occurrences of reference, 4 occurrence of substitution, 3 occurrences of ellipsis
and 69 occurrence of conjunction). Based on the number of grammatical cohesion
on the students writing it was derived that the most dominant types of
grammatical cohesion on the students narrative writing were reference, that is
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