ABSTRACT
This research entitled “A Syntactic Study of Sentences Used in Live Football Commentary” is intended to find out the syntactic characteristics and the frequency of occurrence of syntactic characteristic of football commentary.
This research uses descriptive qualitative method because the researcher describes the data in whatever they are and the produced data are more in the form of words rather than numbers. The researcher uses the sentence delivered by football commentator as the data source of this research. The techniques used in collecting the data are recording technique, transfering technique, and noting technique. The researcher records the football matches and then she takes some notes of the sentences delivered by the football commentator and finally she transfers the data into data cards. In analysing the data, the researcher applies descriptive technique. The researcher identifies and classifies the syntactic characteristic of the collected data, and then she presents the data in the form of sentence, she then counts each of the syntactic characteristic forms and presents it in the form of table.
The result shows that the syntactic characteristics used in live football commentary are syntactic reduction, syntactic inversion, heavy noun modification, routine and formula, and tense usage. The higest frequency is the syntactic reduction. The lowest percentage is the use of routine and formula.
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