Essays Written by Primary School Students at Grade Six in Tabanan Regency, Bali Province: A Syntactic Approach

Abstract

This study aimed to describe types, unity, and structures of sentences contained in the essays written by primary schools students at grade six in Tabanan regency, Bali province. The method used to collect the data was document recording and analyzed by a descriptive analysis technique. The results showed that (1) there were 199 declarative sentences, 79 simple sentences, 120 compound sentences, 176 verbal sentences, 23 nominal sentences, 180 active sentences, and 19 passive sentences. (2) The unity of the sentence was indicated by the existence of Subject and Predicate. a) There were 185 sentences categorized as having a clear unity of ideas; b) 7 sentences did not have a clear unity of ideas; c) 4 sentences without a subject, and (d) 3 sentences without a predicate. (3) According to the structure of sentences, there were simple and multiple sentences in the essays and they were quite varied.