A SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS OF CLAUSE IN ISLAM CHAT ROOM IN YAHOO MESSENGER ON THE INTERNET

ABSTRACT

This research is under the title A Syntactic Analysis of Clause in Islam Chat Room in Yahoo Messenger on the Internet which is proposed to describe the clause applied in Islam Chat Room in Yahoo Messenger on the Internet. The description includes the kinds of clause and the patterns of clause applied in Islam Chat Room in Yahoo Messenger on the Internet.


This research uses syntactic approach to identify the data and is a qualitative research. This research uses noting in collecting the data and uses distributional method to analyze the data. The writer analyzes the data through these methods above. Then, the writer analyzes all the data based on the kinds and patterns which are applied in Islam Chat Room in Yahoo Messenger on the Internet.

The result of this research is that the writer finds three kinds of clauses which are applied in Islam Chat Room in Yahoo Messenger on the Internet. They are adjective clause, adverbial clause and noun clause. In this research, of 40 data researched the writer finds noun clause and the others are adjective and adverbial clause. There are twenty noun clauses or 50%, twelve adjective clauses or 30% and eight adverbial clauses or 20% of the total number of data. The writer also finds the patterns of clause in this research. In this research, the writer finds the pattern of clauses as follows: SV, SVA, SVC, SVO, SVOC, SVOO, and SVOA. The most fragment pattern the writer finds in this research is SVO. It is about 45% of forty clauses analyzed. The second is SVC. It is about 35% of forty clauses analyzed. The third is SV, SVA and SVOA. The writer finds 15% of forty clauses and the last is SVOC and SVOO, 3% of SVOO and 2% SVOC. The writer finds the most patterns SVO, It is because the pattern of SVO is the common and basic pattern of English language and the others are the following patterns.