Error Analysis of Compound Sentence Constructions in English News Online Journalist

Abstract

This research deals with Error Analysis of Compound Sentence Constructions in English News Online Journalist. The objective of this research were 1) To find out the type of errors made by journalist in english news constructions compound sentence, 2) To find out the dominant of common errors made by journalist in english news in constructions compound sentence. This research used descriptive qualitative method, to identified and analyze the errors made by journalist in English news constructions compound sentence. The researcher found 29 compound sentence, but only 13 compound sentence that the data. than analyze the sentence to find out types of error and dominant type of error make by the journalist. the error made by the journalist were counting that found error in this researcher was 14 errors, by the error of missing subject was 4 errors or 28,57%, the error of missing verb was 0 or 0%, the error of missing subject and verb was 0 errors or 0%, the error of dependent clause was 0 or 0%, the error of fused sentence was 1 or 7,14%, and the error of comma splice was 9 errors or 64,28%.