This research aimed to find out the grammatical errors in students writing and the most dominat error made by the trid semester students of English and Literature Dapertment in writing text.
This research was about syntactical errors in writing which was produced by the third semester students of English and Literature Department of Alauddin State Islamic University of Makassar. This research based on the surface strategy taxonomy theory by Dulay, Burt and Karshen.