Syntactic Analysis of the Noun Clause used in The Jakarta Post's Sport Column Published from April to May 2007
Abstract
ABSTRACT
This study is syntactic analysis of noun clause and sentence pattern of noun clause used in the Jakarta Post’s Sport Column published from April to May 2007. The objectives of this study are to describe and identify the type of noun clause, to describe the sentence pattern of noun clause, and to describe which noun clause is frequently used in the Jakarta Post’s Sport Column.
This is qualitative research. The data consists of 75 noun clauses used in the Jakarta Post’s Sport Column within published from April to May 2007. To analyze the data, the writer uses distributional method to give a description briefly. The writer reads and observers it carefully. The data is identified based on noun clause and patterns. Then, the data is classified into the form of tables.
The result of the study shows that there are 4 types of noun clause used in the Jakarta Post’s Sport Column, they are: noun clause derived from statement, question, request, and exclamation. And the most sentence patterns used in the Jakarta Post’s Sport Column are S + V + C (40 out of 75 sentences or 53.33%), followed by S + V + O + C (10 out of 75 sentences or 13.33%), next S + V + O (9 out of 75 sentences or 12%), then S+V and S+V+A are the same (7 of 75 or 9,33%), and the lowest is S + V + O + A (2 out of 75 sentences or 2,6%). Next is the most frequent types of noun clause is noun clause derived from statement (48 out of 75 or 64%), followed by noun clause derived from question (22 out of 75 or 29.33%), noun clause derived from exclamation (3 out of 75 or 4%), and the lowest is noun clause derived from request (2 out of 75 or 2.66%). Moreover, the most sentence pattern of noun clause used is S+V+C. It means the most sentence pattern used is simple pattern. Moreover, the Jakarta Post’s still suitable for teaching n learning English as second language seen from the language used.
Key words: Syntax, noun clause, and The Jakarta Post
