An analysis of grammatical collocation in the Jakarta Post Online Newspaper

Ray, Siti Kholijah (2022) An analysis of grammatical collocation in the Jakarta Post Online Newspaper. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Syekh Ali Hasan Ahmad Addary Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research discussed about grammatical collocation in the Jakarta post online newspaper which included 8 types they were: noun+ preposition, noun+ to-infinitive, noun+ that-clause, preposition+ noun, and adjective + preposition, adjective+ to-infinitive, adjective+ that-clause, and 19 verb pattern. Grammatical collocation is very important to students. By knowing it they will get easier to understand about how to combine the word and also to make the sentence more variety. There were two formulations of the problem in this research. The first is what types of grammatical collocation in the Jakarta post online newspaper. The second is what is the most dominant types of grammatical collocation in the Jakarta post online newspaper. The objectives of this research were to know and find grammatical collocation and dominant one in the Jakarta post online newspaper. This research was library research. The data sources were taken from Jakarta post newspaper. The research instruments were the document articles and the researcher because the researcher was the one who was able to observe the object of analysis. The data was analyzed by the researcher is the words of articles. To analyzed types of grammatical collocation, the researcher used theory by Benson and Ilson. From the results of data analysis in the articles, there are five kinds of grammatical collocation found in the articles. They are noun+ preposition, noun+ to-infinitive, noun+ that-clause, preposition+ noun, and adjective+ preposition. The results from all the types are 117 items of grammatical collocation. Noun+ preposition has 4 items. Noun+ to-infinitive has 16 items. Noun+ that-clause has 6 items. Preposition+ noun has 88 items. The last adjective+ preposition has 3 items. The most dominant of grammatical collocation that found in the articles from the Jakarta post online newspaper is preposition+ noun with 88 items of collocation. The researcher has analyzed all of the types but when do investigate, the researcher not found three of types they are: adjective+ to-infinitive, adjective+ that-clause, and 19 verb pattern.

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