An Analysis of Sentences’ Unity of Students’ Compositions at Grade VI of Elementary Schools in Bali Province

Abstract

In conveying their ideas in writing, students often found some difficulties in composing sentences. The sentences composed, are not clear in terms of the unity of ideas, so that the ideas conveyed could not be understood well. Based on this situation, the main purpose of this study was to describe sentence unity used in the composition of grade VI students in Bali Province. The data were collected through document recording method of 120 compositions, each consisting of 3 paragraphs. The collected data were analyzed through Burton-Roberts analysis model. The results showed that there are 1.035 sentences. Of all the sentences, 984 sentences were categorized to have clear unity of ideas and 51 sentences were not clear in unity of ideas. The sentences in which the unity of the idea was unclear caused by the absence of Subject (S) and Predicate (P), only include adverbials; without S, or without P. Based on the results obtained, it was suggested to the students to keep on paying attention on sentence unity in writing essay for the effectiveness of the ideas delivered.

Types and sentences structure charged with character education values essays of grade IV elementary school students in Bali Province

“…This incomplete sense is shown without the presence of a Subject or Predicate. Students do not understand the elements of sentences as a tool to express their ideas (Putrayasa, 2018b). In addition, students lack exercises on how to determine the elements of the sentence.…”

“…Therefore, the study of syntax cannot be separated from the theory of sentences themselves. A sentence is a string of words containing a complete sense (Collin & Stabler, 2016;Osborne et al, 2012;Putrayasa, 2018b). In the string of words there is an idea conveyed, which is represented minimally through the subject element and predicate (Batterink & Neville, 2013).…”

Syntactical Study Based on Character Education Values of Essay

“…Syntax is the order of words that make up understanding [3][4][5]. Meanwhile, other opinions say that syntax deals with the relationship of one word to other words in a sentence [6,7]. This inter-word relationship forms an understanding [8][9][10].…”

“…Along with the harmony, other crucial aspects that need to be counted in the sentence are the type of sentence used, the sentence's unity, and the sentence structure used in expressing ideas [16,17]. Research related to syntactic studies, especially sentence elements, was carried out by Putrayasa [7]. His study examined the various elements of objects and information.…”