Degree of Predicate Analysis on the Texts in “The English Learning Materials for Senior High School Grade X

The essential of semantic is how the listeners or the readers acquire a sense of meaning from the speaker or the writer. In semantic analysis, a simple declarative sentence can be analyzed into predicator and arguments.For indicating the quantity of arguments, it can be seen in degree of predicate.The degree of a predicate is a number indicating the number of arguments it is normally understood to have in simple sentences. We found a lot of declarative sentence in a text. The texts can be found in “The English Learning Materials for Senior High School Grade X”. It is a students’ worksheet that is used by teachers to teach their students in Kudus because it is compiled by English MGMP team for senior high school in Kudus.That students’ worksheet is used as important material sources for both teachers and students in teaching learning activity because all English materials that is taught by the teacher taken from that students’ worksheet. The first purpose of this research is to find out the types of degree of predicateon the texts in “The English Learning Materials for Senior High School Grade X”. The second purpose is to find out the dominant type of degree of predicateon the texts in “The English Learning Materials for Senior High School Grade X”. For conducting the research, the writer used descriptive qualitative method. The data of the research is degree of predicate that is analyzed in simple declarative sentence while the data source is the texts in “The English Learning Materials for Senior High School Grade X”. The writer found the types of degree of predicate in 7 different texts provided in percentage and the dominant types of degree of predicate. The percentage of one-place predicate is 36, 36%, the percentage of two-place predicate is 37, 67% and the percentage of three-place predicate is 25, 97%. So, the dominant type of degree of predicate is two-place predicate. It means that the texts in “The English Learning Materials for Senior High School Grade X” have medium level of difficulties. Related to the finding, the writer suggests to the English teacher to consider about the texts that is taught based on the students’ ability. To the students, they can get knowledge from this research. The last, this research can be reference for the other researchers