STUDENTS’ ABILITY TO USE ENGLISH AFFIXATION

Abstract

This research aimed at finding out the students’ ability to use English affixation on changing adjective into abstract noun at the third semester students of English Department of Muhammadiyah University of Makassar. The researcher was a descriptive quantitative method. There were 30 sample of this research at the third semester of students’ English department of Muhammadiyah University of Makassar in academic year 2018/2019. In order to get the data, the researcher used documentation of changing adjective into abstract noun test. The finding indicated that the Students Ability in changing adjective into abstract noun is Fairly Good. There were three indicates to assess the student’s ability saw from students score, students’ qualification, and students mean score. Based on the data analysis by using quantitative score. It was found that23 (76%) students have good ability to change adjective into abstract noun, and the result of all the students mean score is 71.33.It isshowed the category is fairly good qualification.