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ABSTRACT Faujil, Muhammad (2021). An Analysis of Grammatical Error in Writing Narrative Text by The Eleventh Graders of SMAN 1 Tarakan. This research was conducted to identify and describe the types of grammatical error made by the eleventh graders of SMAN 1 Tarakan in writing narrative text. The researcher used descriptive qualitative as the method of the research. The subject of the research was the eleventh graders of science 1 class of SMAN 1 Tarakan in academic year 2020/2021. The Number of population that had been taken as the data were 36 and they were selected by using purposive sampling technique. The researcher collected the data by using writing test. The subjects were asked to write narrative text along with the generic structure well. The result showed that there were 203 errors found in student’s writing based on grammatical error classified by Turton (1995). There were 60 errors of verb tense, 52 errors of verb be, 3 errors of subject-verb agreement, 3 errors of determiner, 5 errors of plural, 4 errors of pronoun, 22 errors of wrong word, 5 errors of verb, 6 errors of preposition, 2 errors of conjunction, 4 errors of article, 9 errors of auxilary, 2 errors of adjective, 2 errors adverb, 3 errors of possesive, 4 errors of noun, 6 errors of infinitive, 4 errors of gerund, 8 errors of modal, 2 errors of quantifiers and 3 errors of comparative. Briefly, the grammatical error of Verb Tense becomes the most dominant error that appeared the most on student’s writing in narrative text. Keyword : Grammatical Error Analysis, Grammatical Errors, Narrative Text.