International Journal of Language & Literature

Grammatical Errors in Social Media Caption
Siti Yuliah, Yessy Purnamasari, Elsa Yunita

Abstract
This study focuses on the analysis of grammatical errors found in social media captions of Eigerindo‟s products. The paper has two aims: (1) to analyze kinds of grammatical errors found in social media captions of Eigerindo‟s products and (2) to recognize the most grammatical errors that frequently occurred. By employing qualitative method, the steps of the analysis are the data collection and the data analysis which consists of error identification, error classification, error explanation, and error evaluation. The technique used for this study was textual analysis which was specifically applied in grammar analysis. The data was 45 captions: 17 captions from @exsportbags, 18 from @bodypack, and 10 from @eigeradventure comprising 130 expressions in total. The findings show that there are 84 grammatical errors found which consist of errors on subject-verb agreement by 36%, errors on sentence fragment by 19%, errors on spelling by 17%, errors on parallelism by 13%, errors on preposition by 9%, and errors on passive voice by 6%. Subject-verb agreement error is the most grammatical error that frequently occurred since the copywriters might be using the rule of writing caption from Printwand (2012) which sometimes ignores the grammatical aspect.

Full Text: PDF      DOI: 10.15640/ijll.v8n2a3