AN ANALYSIS OF THE 5 TH SEMESTER STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN USING RELATIVE PRONOUN OF ADJECTIVES CLAUSE

This research aimed to find out the students‟ ability in using
relative pronouns at the 5
th
-semester English education study
program of the University of Bengkulu. This research used a
descriptive quantitative method. The population of this research
was the 5th-semester students in academic year 2022/2023 with
94 students as the sample. The data of the research were
collected using a test consisted of 30 words with 3 types of
questions such as multiple-choice, cloze, and combining two
sentences. Based on the data analysis, the researcher concluded
that the students‟ ability in using relative pronoun was classified
as low with a total average score of 57.8. In addition, among five
relative pronouns, “whom” with a score of 47 and “that” with a
score of 48 became the most difficult for the students as it was
classified as very low.
Keywords: Adjective Clause, Relative Pronoun