Variations of Sentence Structure in 5 thGgrade Students’ Essays in Padang: Perspective of Basic Sentence Patterns

This research is a qualitative descriptive that aims to describe the variation of sentence
structure of 5th grade students in Padang (SD Negeri Percobaan, SD IT Adzkia 2, MIN 3,
and SD Agnes) based on basic sentence patterns in Indonesian. The data is a sentence that
contained in student essays. Before writing essays, students are given a stimulus by a
model of teacher and next students write descriptive essays based on the picture that
available in material learning. The result showed 1) variation sentences S-P, P-S, based on
basic sentence pattern S-P; 2) variation sentences S-P-O, S-O-P, P-O based on basic
sentence pattern S-P-O; 3) variation sentences S-P-Pel, P-Pel, P-S-Pel basic sentence
pattern S-P-Pel; 4) variation sentences S-P-K, K-S-P, K-S-P-K, S-K-P, S-K-P-K, K-P-S, P-S
K, P-K basic sentence pattern S-P-K; 5) variation sentences S-P-O-Pel, P-O-Pel basic
sentence pattern S-P-O-Pel; 6) variation sentences S-P-O-K, K-S-P-O, K-P-O, P-O-K, K-S
P-O-K based on basic sentence pattern S-P-O-K.