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%.
