ANALISIS KATA SENDI NAMA “DI” DAN “DALAM” DALAM PENULISAN KARANGAN PELAJAR TINGKATAN 4

Good command of grammar skills can help students produce quality, critical and creative writing. The teaching Malay should follow the correct principles to avoid confusion in use prepositions. Most are not proficient lack knowledge using prepositions correctly. This study focuses on “di” “dalam” essay writings form 4 students. current applies a qualitative research method conducted 30 essays written by objective this is identify, describe analyse forms used production students' essays. researcher uses Transformative Generative Theory introduced Noam Chomsky 1957 explain objectives. analysed percentages. result investigation shows that percentage preposition 83% incorrect 17%. For “dalam”, answers 65% 35%. Conclusively, there who still confused accurate according formula. situation be seen through dominant errors comparison with “di”. further enhance writing language teachers need take proactive measures address problem. Some suggestions for studies done researchers investigate grammatical mistakes different corpora such as newspapers, magazines, speech texts, short stories, others.