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Suci Febri Yanni, 2315.090. An Analysis of Syntactical Errors In Students Writing At 11th Grade of MA Mualimin Muhaadiyah Boarding School Sawah Dangka In Academic Year 2019/2020. English has been studied for many years in the school, it was important to recognize some common errors that were produced by the learners in order to help them improve learning strategies for English learning. Therefore, this research aimed to investigate the errors that occurred in students' English writing at syntactical error and causes of error in students' writing The type of research was descriptive qualitative research. The data was collected from the students' writing recount text and interviews to the informants. The source of the research was the class A at eleventh grade of Mualimin Muhammadiyah Boarding School Sawah Dangka. The result of the study shows that, firstly. The type of syntactical errors occurred in the omission, addition, misformation and misordering which included in noun phrase, verb phrase, and verb and verb construction. Noun phrase included determiner, pronoun and preposition. Verb phrase included the omission of verb and subject and verb agreement. Secondly, the four major causes of errors were interlingual transfer, intalingual transfer, contextual learning and some transformation.