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AN ANALYSIS OF ADJECTIVAL CONSTRUCTION ON MICHAEL BUBLE’S ALBUM “TO BE LOVED 2013”
RESEARCH PAPER
Submitted as a Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Getting the bachelor Degree of Education
in English Department
By
BEKTI SUNYOTO A320110061
SCHOOL OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF SURAKARTA
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“Reach your world by having a language”
(capailah duniamu dengan sebuah bahasa)
“be teacher of the world”
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DEDICATION
This research paper is dedicated to: His beloved father and mother
(Mr.Gito and Mrs. Sularni) His greatful grandmother (Pawiro Diyono) His old brother in law and his old sister (Mas Mul and Mbak Lastri) His two young brothers (Budi and Rischa) His little niece
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Praise to Allah SWT, who has been giving the researcher guidance and
blessing so the researcher is able to finish his research entitled “An Analysis of
Adjectival Construction on Michael Buble’s Album “tobe Loved 2013”.
The researcher also thanks a lot for many people who has supported,
advised, accompanied the researcher to finish this research. The researcher
realizes that this reseach will not be done without all of you. In this opportunity he
would like to express his deepest gratitude and appreiation to:
1. Prof. Dr. Harun Joko Prayitno, M. Hum., as the Dean of the School of
Teacher Training and Education of Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta.
2. Mauly Halwat Hikmat, Ph.D., as the Head of English Department, who has
permitted to write this research paper.
3. Dra. Malikatul Laila, M. Hum., as the first consultant who has guided and
advised him patiently.
4. Dra. Siti Zuhriah Ariatmi, M. Hum., as the second consultant who has given
much valuable suggestion for the correction this research.
5. All lectures in English Education Department of UMS
6. His beloved father and mother that always pray for his success and give
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7. For all his brothes and sister (mas mul, mbak lastri, Budi and Rischa) that
always accompany him to share and make a joke.
8. His little niece (Zulfa/upa) for joking him
9. His beloved friends during in EDSO (Fahmi, Sari, Dina, Ary, Sumardi,
Ardika, Yamma, Ariyan, Panggih, Yunita, Heru, Julian, Kun-kun, Devy, Ida,
Randy, Nisa, Okta. Etc.) of being a second great family for him.
10. All his friends in English Department especially B- class, thanks for your
friendship.
11. His close friends (Amir, Ikhwan, Priya, Abil, Yusuf, Fachrudin, Jhon, Arif,
Gani and Gendhon), when will we play together again?
12. All of the mamber of Bil-Bil boarding house, thanks for giving good
impression.
Nevertheless, the researcher realizes that this research is far from being
perfect. In order to make this research paper better, the researcher welcome to
accept the positive criticism. Finally, the researcher hopes that this research
paper can be useful for the readers.
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TABLE OF CONTENT
TITLE ... i
APPROVAL ... ii
ACCEPTANCE ... iii
TESTIMONY ... iv
MOTTO ... v
DEDICATION ... vi
ACKNOWLEDGMENT ... vii
TABLE OF CONTENT ... ix
SUMMARY ... xi
Chapter I : INTRODUCTION ... 1
A. Background of the study ... 1
B. Previous Study ... 4
C. Problem of the Study ... 10
D. Objective of the Study ... 10
E. Benefit of the Study ... 10
F. Research Paper Organization ... 11
Chapter II : UNDERLYING THEORY ... 12
A. Notion of Syntax ... 12
B. Categories of word ... 13
C. Categories of Phrase ... 15
D. Construction of Adjectival ... 18
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F. Album of Michael Buble ... 22
Chapter III : RESEARCH METHOD ... 23
A. Type of Research ... 23
B. Object of Research ... 23
C. Data and Data Source ... 23
D. Technique of Collecting Data ... 24
E. Technique of Analyzing Data ... 24
Chapter IV : RESEARCH FINDING AND DISCUSSION ... 25
A. Research Finding ... 25
B. Discussion of Research Finding ... 49
Chapter IV : CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION ... 59
A. Conclusion ... 59
B. Suggestion ... 59
BIBLIOGRAPHY ... 61
VIRTUAL REFERENCES ... 62 APPENDIX
Appendix 1: Data Sources
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SUMMARY
Bekti Sunyoto, A320110061. “An Analysis of Adje
ctival construction on
Mic
hael Buble’s
Album (tobe Loved 2013)”. Muhammadiyah University of
Surakarta. Reasearch Paper. 2015.
This study aims at explaining and describing the forms and the
distributions of adjectival construction on Mic
hael Buble’s album (to be loved
2013). The techniques of data collection are: reading the album of Michael Buble,
underlying for the adjectival construction in the album, rewriting the data and
coding the data.
This research method used is descriptive qualitative as the type of
research.The object of this study is adjectival construction analysis of data found
in Mic
hael Buble’s album. The whole data whi
ch are found by the researcher are
68 sentences containing AdjP construction.
The result shows that there are two forms: simple and complex AdjP
Construction. Simple AdjP Constructionsare subdivided into four subdivisions:
noun, verb, adjective and adverb. Complex AdjP Constructionsare subdivided into
six subdivisions: Noun Phrase (NP), Adjective Phrase (AP), Verb Phrase (VP),
Adverb Phrase (AdvP), Preposition Phrase (PP) and Adjective Clause (AC). There
are 3 distributions of English AdjPconstruction: (1) pre modifier, (2) post
modifier, and (3) pre and post modifier. There are many songs are in Michael
Buble’s album. So, this research can hel
p the listener or the reader to understand
the content of the songs.
