This research investigated the types of sentence used in News Item text and the further detail explanation that the aim of the study was to explain the frequency occurrence of sentence types used in News Item text. The method of this study was descriptive qualitative. The finding of this study showed that there were four types of sentence such as simple sentence, compound sentence, complex sentence, and compound-complex sentence. According to the percentage analysis, it found that the most frequent used by students in their writing was simple sentence which it obtained 49.59% of the whole number of sentence types found in the students’ writing. The second most frequent of sentence types used by students’ was complex sentence which it obtained 36.59%, while compound sentence obtained 6.50%, and compound-complex sentence obtained 7.32%. Based on the percentage of clauses used in the complex sentences, it can be classified into three kinds, namely adjective clause, noun clause, and adverbial clause. From the percentage above, it was found that noun clauses are most frequent which obtained 41.07%, the second most frequent clause is adjective clause which obtained 39.29%, and the last is adverbial clause which obtained 19.64%. Based on the data above the researcher concluded that the students in advanced students or in the third semester could not be able yet to mix all the types of sentence in their writing. The writing style cannot be said yet good enough because according to Hogue and Oshima that good writing style can be obtained by mixing the types of sentence. The researcher hopes that advanced students are able to use all the types of sentence in their writing because they are not basic learners, they must improve and develop their skills especially in writing when they want to be good writers by knowing, combining, and mixing all the types of sentence in order to convey the message that is intended.