TYPES OF ENGLISH SENTENCE USED IN "BRIEFING" COLUMN OF TIME MAGAZINE

TYPES OF ENGLISH SENTENCE USED IN "BRIEFING" COLUMN OF TIME MAGAZINE

By
Lisman Miranda
04026061


ABSTRACT

The research entitled Types of English Sentence Used in "Briefing" Column of Time Magazine is intended to explain English sentences in Time magazine. The discussion involves types of sentence, patterns of sentence and types of sentence which is frequently used in Time magazine.

The research is qualitative research because the data are in the form of word. The number of data which is taken by the writer from Time magazine consists of 290 data. Besides, noting techniques is chosen as a method of collecting data. Furthermore, to analyze the data.

The results of the study shows that there are four types of sentence used in Time magazine, they are: simple sentence, compound sentence, complex sentence and compound-complex sentence. In addition, the sentence patterns that are used in Time magazine include SV, SVC, SVO, SVA, SVOC, SVOA, and SVOO. For the last, the analysis prove that the simple sentence becomes the most frequently type of sentence that is used in Time magazine, which takes place 175 out of 290 or 60.34 % of sentence. It means that simple sentence becomes the most alternative choices of sentence of Time magazine. It is understood that it is very simple and easy to be understood; so, it will make the reader easy to get information in a great quantity presenting in Time magazine. On the contrary, SVO is the most frequently of sentence pattern used in Time magazine