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Kamis, 15 Oktober 2009

A SYNTACTIC STUDY ON ADVERBIAL CLAUSE FOUND IN SHORT STORIES OF C’N S MAGAZINE

ABSTRACT

This study discusses adverbial clause found in short stories of C’n S magazine published in 2007-2009. This paper aims at describing the types of adverbial clause, identifying the patterns of adverbial clause and describing which types and patterns of adverbial clause are commonly used.

This study belongs to qualitative research and it applies syntactic approach to identify and analyze the data. In collecting the data, the writer uses observation method and noting technique as its advanced technique. Then, the writer employs structural analysis method and distributional method to analyze the data of adverbial clause which are taken from short stories of C’n S magazine published in 2007-2009.

The result of this study shows that there are nine types and nine patterns of adverbial clause found in short stories of C’n S magazine published in 2007-2009. Those types are adverbial clause of time, place, contrast, cause, result, purpose, condition, manner, and degree, while those patterns are SV, SVC, SVO, SVA, SVOA, SVCA, SVOO, SVOC, and SVAA. From 162 data analyzed, the most frequent types of adverbial clause are headed by adverbial clause of time (93 or 57.40%), pursued by condition (21 or 13%), cause (18 or 11.11%), result (9 or 5.55%), then contrast and manner (6 or 3.70%), degree (5 or 3.08%), purpose (3 or 1.85), and place (1 or 0.61%), whereas the most frequent patterns of adverbial clause is started by SVO (44 or 27.16%), followed by SVOA (29 or 17.9%), SV (27 or 16.66%), SVC (22 or 13.58%), SVA (21 or 13%), SVCA (11 or 6.79%), then SVAA (4 or 2.45%), SVOC (3 or 1.85%) and the lowest frequency is SVOO (1 or 0.61%). Therefore, the most frequent occurrence of the usage of the types is adverbial clause of time and the highest frequency of the clause pattern is SVO.

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