AN ANALYSIS OF VERB AND VERB PHRASE DEVIATION IN A FAN FICTION STORY THE BIG FIVE: KNIGHT PRINCESS IN WATTPAD

Abstract

Verb and verb phrase that function as predicate are the central part in a sentence because they show an action of the subject (Frank, 1972). In producing verb and verb phrase, the learners are expected to understand and apply the correct form so that the verb and verb phrase deviation do not occur. This study focuses on verb and verb phrase deviation appeared on a fan fiction story entitled The Big Five: Knight Princess published in wattpad and written by a foreign language learner. The purposes of this study are to show the description about the types of verb and verb phrase error found on the object, to know the most dominant error type found, and to provide the appropriate expressions from the erroneous form. The data are obtained from 187 sentences of the whole story that consist of 223 verb and verb phrase errors as predicate. The data are categorized based on Surface Strategy Taxonomy by Dulay et al. (1982). They are omission, addition (double markings, regularization, simple addition), misformation (regularization, archi-forms, and alternating forms), and misordering. However, archi-forms that is subcategory of misformation is not applied since it does not categorize verb and verb phrase error. The data analysis method used is based on Ellis' ways (in Saville-Troike, 2006). The ways are collection, identification, description, explanation, and evaluation of errors. However, evaluation is not used because this study does not focus on the seriousness of errors. The findings are omission: 33.63%, addition- double markings: 0.9%, addition- regularization: 4.03%, addition- simple addition: 21.08%, misformation- regularization: 0.45%, misformation- alternating forms: 39.01%, and misordering: 0.9%. It shows that the most dominant type of verb and verb phrase error is misformation type and alternating forms as its subcategory.