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    A Study On The Ability Of The Second Year Students Of Sma Pgri Pekanbaru In Using Comparative Degree
    (2013-01-09) Dani, Ersika Puspita
    The general objective of this study was to find out the ability of the second year students in using comparative degree. This research was conducted at SMA PGRI Pekanbaru on July 2012 in the Academic year of 2012/2013. The sample of the research was 36 students of class XI IA-2. The data was collected by using completion test. The writer conducted a try out in another class before the test was given. Based on the calculation, there were 12 items were rejected. There were 4 items being revised because their facility value scores were lower than 0,30 (difficult), and 8 items being revised because their facility value scores were higher than 0,70 (easy). The result of this study showed that the ability of the second year students of SMA PGRI Pekanbaru in using comparative degree was at Good level with the mean score 62.56. Furthermore, based on the percentage of the students’ ability in using comparative degree of each classification of the comparative degree formation, it can be inferred that the comparative adverb was considered as the most difficult one for the students, with the percentage of 46.12 %. The next was the comparative with nouns, with the percentage of 64.78%, while comparative adjectives was considered as the easiest one for the second year students of SMA PGRI Pekanbaru, with the percentage of 71.78%.