An analysis of word class in the Jakarta Post article

Destiana, Tia (2022) An analysis of word class in the Jakarta Post article. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research discussed about an analysis of word class in the jakarta post entitled; contact tracing, a weapon to combat Covid-19 transmission. The problems of this research were common people have difficulties to analyze word class. Teacher in the researcher’s ppl field did not teach about word class, students asked to memorize the conversation, sudents asked to find the meaning and how to pronounce, the students also lacked of vocabulary. So, it made students difficult to identify word class or component of the sentence. The purpose of this research was to find out the kinds of mayor part and dominant mayor part used in the article. The researcher used library research as method of research as research design, qualitative data was applied as data, in data collecting method, in data analysis using John W Creswel theory which consisted three steps; understanding, identifying, classifying, describing. This study took an article as the source of data for analysis. The result of this research consist of 275 word class especially in mayor part (noun, verb, adjective, and adverb). There were 129 nouns, 94 verbs, 39 adjectives, and 13 adverbs that existed in the article had chosen. The most often found were noun in the article. So, it can be concluded that the most dominant form which found was noun.

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