A STUDY ON THE STUDENT‟S PROBLEMS IN USING SIMPLE PAST TENSE IN WRITING NARRATIVE PARAGRAPH

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This research is about the student‟s ability in using past tense in writing narrative text at SMA Negeri 2 Rantauprapat. In conducting this research, the researcher asks the students to write a narrative paragraph to find the students‟s problems in using simple past tense. As the problem in the research is ,what ate problems of the first year students of SMA Negeri 2 Rantauprapat in using simple past tense in writing narrative paragraph? In conducting this research, the writer follows the methodology of qualitative research. This research is conducted by surveying the student‟s ability. As the object of thus research, the researcher chooses the students of the first year at SMA NEGERI 2 RANTAUPRAPAT. After analyzing the data,  the  researcher  finds  that  the  student‟s  problem  are  about  the  use  incorrect  tenses,  auxiliary  verb,  verb  pattern, overlapping verbs and some missing verbs.