Putri Mega Pertiwi Pengarang

The aims of this research is to analyzed on the sentence construction in English textbook and students’ essay narrative text writing. These research used qualitative methods. Sentence construction that will be analyzed by the researcher are the five of grammatical tenses. The tenses are simple past tense, past continuous tense, past perfect continuous tense, past perfect tense, and past future tense. After the researcher has analyzed and calculated, the result showed that the total percentage of English textbook and in students’ essay have the same percentage, that is 90%. It means that, the students’ can apply sentence construction in their writing and sentence construction in all of the text in English textbook is good.