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“A SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS OF ADVERBIAL PHRASES FOUND IN BBC NEWS, 16 TH SEPTEMBER 2013 ENTITLED “PAKISTAN BATTLES GROWING ALCOHOL ADDICTION”

AMIRULLAH, M. REZA (2014) “A SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS OF ADVERBIAL PHRASES FOUND IN BBC NEWS, 16 TH SEPTEMBER 2013 ENTITLED “PAKISTAN BATTLES GROWING ALCOHOL ADDICTION”. Undergraduate thesis, UNIVERSITY OF STIKUBANK SEMARANG.

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Abstract

The thesis entitled A Syntactic Analysis of Adverbial Phrases Found In BBC news, 16 th September 2013 entitled “Pakistan Battles Growing Alcohol Addiction” has two objectives. First is to describe what types of adverbial phrases are used In BBC news, 16 th September 2013 entitled “Pakistan Battles Growing Alcohol Addiction” The second is to describe what are the functions of adverb used in BBC news, 16 th September 2013 entitled “Pakistan Battles Growing Alcohol Addiction”. The study attempts to analyze and indentify the adverbial phrase used in BBC news, 16 th September 2013 entitled “Pakistan Battles Growing Alcohol Addiction”. Adverb phrases are phrases that function as adverbs. Since they are dependent phrases, they must have a subordinating conjunction to connect them to the other phrase. An adverb phrase tells when, where, why,how, to what extent, or how much about the word it modifies. There are two common ways to analyze a sentence syntactically namely bracketing and tree diagram. Bracketing shows the constituent structure but omits information about type of constituent. Therefore to represent the kinds of constituent structure we can do it by labeling each bracket with a suitable subscript. Another way to analyze in syntactical way is using tree diagram. Almost all people prefer to use these methods namely bracketing and labeling because it is easier. The research design of this study is descriptive qualitative research because this study describes the characteristics of BBC news, 16 th September 2013 entitled “Pakistan Battles Growing Alcohol Addiction”. Most of the characteristic of adverbial phrase found in BBC news, 16 th September 2013 entitled “Pakistan Battles Growing Alcohol Addiction”. Namely 31 adverbial phrase, There are: 17 adverb phrase of time, 12 adverb phrase of place, 14 adverb phrase of manner, 2 adverbial phrases of frequency, 1 adverbial phrases of certainty, and 2 adverbial phrases of degree. The function of adverbial phrase applied found in BBC news, 16 th September 2013 entitled “Pakistan Battles Growing Alcohol Addiction” are 29 to modify verb (60.41 %), 19 to modify adjective (39.59 %).

Item Type: Thesis (Undergraduate)
Additional Information: nim : 10.03.52.0044
Uncontrolled Keywords: Syntax, Adverbial Phrase, BBC News
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Depositing User: Hary Iskandar
Date Deposited: 03 Nov 2014 02:08
Last Modified: 03 Nov 2014 02:08
URI: https://eprints.unisbank.ac.id/id/eprint/2146

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