SYNTACTIC STRUCTURES IN THE JAKARTA POST NEWS ARTICLES

ABSTRACT Faisal. Registered Number Student. 17203163157. 2020. Syntactic Structures in The Jakarta Post News Articles. Thesis. English Education Program. Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Learning. State of Islamic Institute of Tulungagung. Advisor: Dr. Erna Iftanti, S.S,M.Pd Keywords: Syntactic structures, The Jakarta Post, News Articles, sentence Nowadays, English is the most popular language in the world. Many mass media publishing use English in reporting news or information to readers or listeners. Such news can be reported in the spoken language or written form. The Jakarta Post is one of media publishing that publish news and articles in written form in English. It is not only publish news in paper edition but also electronic one which can be accessed online. One of the advantages accessing The Jakarta Post online is the reader can read the most actual information around the world which can’t be found in paper edition. In order to be meaningful information, the reader have to understand its content. One way to understand such information, the reader need to know its sentence structure. Therefore, Syntax is a suitable study to discuss the sentence structure. Through this study, the readers may find information on the syntactic strudtures of English in The Jakarta Post News Articles. The formulation of research problems are: 1) what types of syntactic structures in The Jakarta Post news sentences? 2) What componential variety forms the syntactic structures are employed in The Jakarta news sentences? 3) How is the frequency of components forming each syntactic structure in The Jakarta Post news? While the objectives of this study are: 1) To find out the types of syntactic structures used in The Jakarta Post news sentences. 2) To find out the componential variety forming syntactic structures employed in The Jakarta Post news sentences, and 3) To find out the frequency of component forming each syntactic structure in The Jakarta Post news sentences. The research design of this study is library research. the data in this study were taken from the printed materials that were the News articles from The Jakarta Post website. The researcher analyzed the sentences by reading a lot to find the types of syntactic structure and its componential variety occurred. Data verification of this study was using triangulation The result of data analysis, 1) there are four syntactic structures which constructed the topic sentence of The Jakarta News: Structure of predication, structure of modification, structure of complementation and structure of coordination. 2) The componential variety forming syntactic structure in The Jakarta Post sentences are: Simple Component: Structure of Predication (Single word as subject); Structure of Modification (verb as head, adverb as modifier, noun as modifier, and adjective as modifier); Structure of Complementation (verb as verbal element), Complex Component: Structure of Predication (noun phrase as subject, structure of coordination as subject, structure of modification as subject, structure of modification as predicate, and structure of complementation as predicate); Structure of Modification (verb phrase as head and prepositional phrase as modifier); Structure of Complementation (verb phrase as verbal element, structure of modification as verbal element, structure of predication as complement, structure of modification as complement, and structure of coordination as complement); Structure of Coordination (Structure of predication). 3) The frequency of component forming each syntactic structure are: Structure of Predication (simple component occur 42 times with percentage 17%; complex component occur 198 times with percentage 82.5%); Structure of Modification (simple component occur 32 times with percentage 42%; complex component occur 44 times with percentage 58%); Structure of Complementation (simple component occur 31 times with percentage 29%; complex component occur 77 times with percentage 71%); Structure of Coordination (complex component occur 15 times with percentage 100%)