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AN ANALYSIS OF PREPOSITION PHRASE FOUND

IN THE SOCIAL ECONOMIC ARTICLES

OF THE JAKARTA POST

By

BAGAS LOKANOV TEJA

NIM 200932190

ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTEMENT

TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION FACULTY

MURIA KUDUS UNIVERSITY

2015

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AN ANALYSIS OF PREPOSITION PHRASE FOUND

IN THE SOCIAL ECONOMIC ARTICLES

OF THE JAKARTA POST

SKRIPSI

Presented to the University of Muria Kudus

in Partial Fulfillment of Requirements for Completing the Sarjana Progam

in English Education

By

BAGAS LOKANOV TEJA

NIM 200932190

ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTEMENT

TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION FACULTY

MURIA KUDUS UNIVERSITY

2015

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MOTTO AND DEDICATION

Motto:

“Better a patient man that a warrior, a man who controls his

temper than one who takes the city” Proverbs 16:32

“If helplessness is our system, we were better off upside down” by

As i Lay Dying

“Never give in never back down” by Black Veil Brides

Dedication:

This skripsi is dedicated to:

His Lord, Jesus Christ

His beloved parents (Mr. Cornelius

Sutedjo and Mrs. Lidia Mulyani)

His beloved one Octavia Silvy Indiana

His bestfriends “kopingism” (Arfanny,

Adhitya, Syolikhul, Handi, Arif, Agung,

Nova), and “ Ngisor Sawo Custom”

His friends in UMK KUDUS who can’t

be mentioned one by one.

Anybody who support him.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

First of all, the writer would like to praise and thank to Jesus Christ for

throughout his life, who has given blessing and strength to finish this thesis

entitled “An analysis of prepositional phrase found in the social economic articles

of the Jakarta Post”

The writer would like to express his deepest gratitude to those who are

directly or indirectly involved in completing this skripsi, they are:

1. Dr. Slamet Utomo, M. Pd, the Dean of Teacher Training and Education

Faculty of Muria Kudus University and also as second advisor.

2. Diah Kurniati, S. Pd, M. Pd, the Head of English Education Department.

3. Titis Sulistyowati, S.Pd, M.Pd as the first advisor, who have accurately

guided his during the writing of skripsi.

4. All lecturers of English Education Department of Teacher Training and

Education Faculty of Muria Kudus University for valuable knowledge,

guidance, and advices during the years of his study.

5. The writer’s beloved parents, big thanks for their loves and supports in

finishing his skripsi.

6. The writer’s speacial one, thanks for gives unlimited support, from the

beginning until the end.

7. The writer bestfriends “kopingism” (Arfanny, Adhitya, Syolikhul, Handi, Arif,

Agung, Nova), and “ Ngisor Sawo Custom” we have an amazing story to

remember for life.

8. All his friends in Muria Kudus University.

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The writer would like to express his sincerest gratitude to the readers for

some critics and suggestions. Hopefully this skripsi will be useful for everyone.

Kudus, 1st June 2015

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ABSTRACT

Teja, Bagas Lokanov. 2015. The analysis of English Prepositional Phrase Found

in the Social economic Articles of the Jakarta Post. Skripsi. English

Education Department, Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Muria

Kudus University. Advisors: (1) Titis Sulistyowati, S.Pd, M.Pd (2) Dr.

Slamet Utomo, M.Pd.

Key words: Prepositional phrase, social economic articles

Phrases are the basic patterns to build sentence. There are several types

of phrase and each type has an important point to build a sentence. One of them is

prepositional phrase. Prepositional phrase is a group of related words that begin

with preposition and end with the object of a preposition. Although it is very

simple phrase, the learners still have difficulties to learn this phrase.

The objectives of the research are to find out the types, to find out the

elements and to describe the function of prepositional phrase found in the Social

Economic articles of the Jakarta Post.

In this research, the writer used descriptive qualitative research. The data

of the research was prepositional phrases in the social economics articles and the

data source of the research was the Social Economic articles of the Jakarta Post.

The result of this research shows that from 13 types of prepositional

phrases the writer only found 12 types in the social economic articles, they are

possession or origin (103), place-position-direction (77), time (36), purpose (33),

manner (15) accompaniment (10), source (10), addition (9), comparison (8),

agency (4), cause or reason (3), condition (2), instrument (0). Beside that, the

writer concluded that there are two word class of prepositional phrase. There are

the main (prepostion and pronoun or noun) and the optional word class of

prepositional phrase (determiner, adjective, adverb and conjuction). Then, the

functions of prepositional phrase found in the social economic articles of the

Jakarta post are adjectival function (206), adverbial function (72) and nominal

function (32).

Thus, the writer suggests for the students, especially, the students of

English Education Department of Muria Kudus University who has lack in the

prepositional phrases to improve their ability. One of the ways is by reading this

research. For the next researcher, they can use article as a media to analysis

prepositional phrase. They also must look for an article that there are many

prepositional phrases. So, they can develop their knowledge about prepositional

phrase. For the teacher, they can use the article as the media to teach their

students, especially in teaching prepositional phrase. Beside that, the teacher

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should pay attention when they teach about functions of prepositional phrases

because there is a little difference between the nominal function and adverbial

function.

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ABSTRAK

Teja, Bagas Lokanov. 2015. Analisis Preposisional Frase pada Artikel Sosial

Ekonomi pada Jakarta Post. Skripsi. Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris Fakultas

Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan Universitas Muria Kudus. Pembimbing:

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Kata Kunci: Preposisional frase, artikel sosial ekonomi

Frase merupakan pola dasar dalam membentuk suatu kalimat. Ada

bermacam-macam frase di dalam kalimat dan setiap frase memiliki peran penting.

Salah satu frase tersebut adalah preposisional frase. Prepositional frase adalah

gabungan kata yang dimulai dengan preposisi dan diakhiri dengan objek dari

preposisi tersebut. Meskipun frase ini terbilang sangat sederhana, namun masih

banyak pelajar yang mengalami kesulitan dalam mempelajarinya.

Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mencari tahu tipe-tipe, element

serta untuk mendiskripsikan fungsi dari preposisional frase yang ada dalam artikel

sosial ekonomi pada Jakarta Post.

Dalam penelitian ini, penulis menggunakan penelitian deskriptif

kualitatif. Data dari penelitian ini dalam bentuk preposisional frase pada artikel

sosial ekonomi dan sumber data penelitian adalah teks artikel sosial ekonomi pada

Jakarta Post.

Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa dari 13 tipe preposisional frase,

penulis hanya menemukan 12 tipe pada artikel sosial ekonomi, yaitu: possession

or origin (103), place-position-direction (77), time (36), purpose (33), manner (15)

accompaniment (10), source (10), addition (9), comparison (8), agency (4), cause

or reason (3), condition (2), instrument (0). Selain itu, penulis juga menyimpulkan

bahwa ada dua komponen dalam prepositional frase. Pertama, komponen inti yang

terdiri dari preposisi dan kata ganti atau kata benda. Kedua, komponen pilihan

yang meliputi determiner, kata sifat, kata keterangan dan kata sambung.

Kemudian, penulis juga menemukan ketiga fungsi preposisi dalam penelitian ini,

yaitu adjectival fungsi (206), adverbial fungsi(72) and nominal fungsi (32).

Oleh karena itu, penulis menyarankan kepada pelajar, khususnya

mahasiswa Fakultas Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris Universitas Muria Kudus yang

mempunyai kelemahan dalam preposisional frase untuk meningkatkan

kemampuannya, salah satu caranya yaitu dengan membaca hasil penelitian ini.

Kepada si peneliti selanjutnya untuk menggunakan artikel sebagai media untuk

menganalis preposisional frase. Namun, mereka juga harus mencari artikel yang

banyak terdapat preposisional frasenya. Dengan begitu si peneliti dapat

mengembangkan pengetahuan mereka tentang prepositional frase. Selain itu,

kepada para guru, mereka juga dapat menggunakan artikel sebagai media

pembelajaran, khusunya pelajaran menulis preposisional frase. Kemudian, para

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guru juga harus lebih berhati-hati dalam mengajarkan fungsi preposisional frase

karena sedikit perbedaan antara nominal fungsi dan adverbial fungsi.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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COVER…................................................................................................ I

LOGO…….............................................................................................. Ii

TITLE….................................................................................................. Iii

MOTTO AND DEDICATION….......................................................... Iv

ADVISORS’ APPROVAL…................................................................. V

EXAMINERS’ APPROVAL…............................................................. Vi

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT…................................................................ Vii

ABSTRACT…........................................................................................ Ix

ABSTRAKS…........................................................................................ Xi

TABLE OF CONTENTS…................................................................... Xii

LIST OF TABLES….............................................................................. Xiv

LIST OF APPENDIC…......................................................................... Xv

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of the Research…............................................................. 1

1.2 Statements of the Problem…................................................................ 3

1.3 Objectives of the Research…............................................................... 4

1.4 Significances of the Research…........................................................... 4

1.5 Scope of the Research…....................................................................... 5

1.6 Operational Definition…...................................................................... 6

CHAPTER II REVIEW TO RELATED LITERATURE AND

HYPOTHESIS

2.1 Syntax………...................................................................................... 7

2.2 Phrase................................................................................................... 7

2.2.1 Type of Phrase................................................................................... 8

2.3. English for Prepositional Phrase.......................................................... 10

2.3.1 Types of Prepositional Phrase............................................................ 11

2.3.2 Word Classes of Preposition Phrase…............................................. 16

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2.3.3 Function of Prepositional Phrase...................................................... 17

2.3.4 Pattern of Prepositional Phrase............…......................................... 20

2.4 Social Economic Articles..................................................................... 21

2.5 History Of the Jakarta Post.................................................................. 20

2.6 Review to The Previous Research.......................................................

2.7 Theoretical Framework........................................................................

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CHAPTER III METHOD OF THE RESEARCH

3.1 Design of the Research…..................................................................... 25

3.2 Data and Data Sources…...................................................................... 26

3.3 Data Collecting..................................................................................... 26

3.4 Data Analysis….................................................................................... 27

CHAPTER IV FINDING OF THE RESEARCH

4.1 Types of Prepositional Phrase Found in the Social Economic

Articles of the Jakarta Post…………………………………………..

4.1.1 Types of Prepositional Phrase Found in the First Social Economic

Articles of the Jakarta Post entitled The Social Agenda in 2014, in

Monday, January 06 2014…………………………………………...

4.1.2 Types of Prepositional Phrase Found in the Second Social

Economic Articles of the Jakarta Post entitled Economic interests of

investors in RI : Convergence and divergence, Tuesday, January 28

2014………………………………………………………………….

4.1.3 Types of Prepositional Phrase Found in the Third Social Economic

Articles of the Jakarta Post entitled Blue economy for marine

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resource development, Thursday, March 20 2014…………….......

4.2 The Word Class of Prepositional Phrase in the Social Economic

Articles of the Jakarta Post……………………………….………..

4.2.1 Word Class of Prepositional Phrase Found in the First Social

Economic Articles of the Jakarta Post entitled The Social Agenda

in 2014, in Monday, January 06 2014 …………………………….

4.2.1 Word Class of Prepositional Phrase Found in the Second Social

Economic Articles of the Jakarta Post entitled Economic interests

of investors in RI : Convergence and divergence, Tuesday,

January 28 2014……………………………………………………

4.2.3 Word Class of Prepositional Phrase Found in the Third Social

Economic Articles of the Jakarta Post entitled Blue economy for

marine resource development, Thursday, March 20 2014………...

4.3 Functions of Prepositional Phrase Found in the Social Economic

Articles of the Jakarta Post………………………………………...

4.3.1 Functions of Prepositional Phrase Found in the First Social

Economic Articles of the Jakarta Post entitled Social Agenda in

2014, in Monday, January 06 2014………………………………..

4.3.2 Functions of Prepositional Phrase Found in the Second Social

Economic Articles Economic interests of investors in RI :

Convergence and divergence, Tuesday, January 28 2014………..

4.3.3 Functions of Prepositional Phrase Found in the Third Social

Economic Articles Blue economy for marine resource

development, Thursday, March 20 2014…………………………..

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CHAPTER V DISCUSSION

5.1 The Types of Prepositional Phrase Found in the Social Economic

Articles of the Jakarta Post…………………………………………..

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5.2 The Word Class of Prepositional Phrase Found in the Social

Economic Articles of the Jakarta Post……………………………….

5.3 The Functions of Prepositional Phrase Found in the Social Economic

Articles of the Jakarta Post…………………………………………..

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CHAPTER VI CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION

6.1 Conclusion…........................................................................................ 245

6.2 Suggestion........................................................................................... 246

BIBLIOGRAPHY….................................................................................. 248

APPENDIXS….......................................................................................... 250

STATEMENT............................................................................................. 259

CURRICULUM VITAE…........................................................................ 262

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LIST OF TABLES

Table

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3.1 The example of analyzing type Prepositional Phrase Found in the

Social Economic Articles……………………………………………….

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3.2 The Example of analyzing Prepositional Phrase Functions Found

in the Entertainment Articles……………………………………………

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4.1.1 Types of Prepositional Phrase Found in the First Social

Economic Articles of the Jakarta Post entitled The Social Agenda in

2014, in Monday, January 06 2014……………………....……………..

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4.1.2 Types of Prepositional Phrase Found in the Second Social

Economic Articles of the Jakarta Post entitled Economic interests of

investors in RI : Convergence and divergence Tuesday, January 28

2014…………………………………………………………………….

4.1.3 Types of Prepositional Phrase Found in the Third Social

Economic Articles of the Jakarta Post entitled Blue economy for

marine resource development, Thursday, March 20 2014……………..

4.3.1 Functions of Prepositional Phrase Found in the First Social

Economic Articles of the Jakarta Post entitled Social Agenda in 2014,

in Monday, January 06 2014……………………...…………………….

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4.3.2 Functions of Prepositional Phrase Found in the Second Social

Economic Articles Economic interests of investors in RI: Convergence

and divergence, Tuesday, January 28 2014…………………………...

4.3.3 Functions of Prepositional Phrase Found in the Third Social

Economic Articles Blue economy for marine resource development,

Thursday, March 20 2014…………………………...............................

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LIST OF APPENDIX

Appendix

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1. Articles of the Jakarta Post “The social agenda in 2014, in Monday,

January 06 2014”, “Blue economy for marine resource development,

Tuesday, January 28 2014”, “Economic interests of investors in RI:

Convergence and divergence, Thursday, March 20 2014 “...………...

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