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PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI FUNCTIONS AND STRUCTURES OF ADJECTIVE PHRASES IN TRAVEL SECTION ARTICLES OF NOW! JAKARTA MAGAZINE AN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Sarjana Sastra in English Letters By IRINE SIH YUWANTI Student Number: 134214151 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LETTERS FACULTY OF LETTERS UNIVERSITAS SANATA DHARMA YOGYAKARTA 2021 PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI FUNCTIONS AND STRUCTURES OF ADJECTIVE PHRASES IN TRAVEL SECTION ARTICLES OF NOW! JAKARTA MAGAZINE AN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Sarjana Sastra in English Letters By IRINE SIH YUWANTI Student Number: 134214151 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LETTERS FACULTY OF LETTERS UNIVERSITAS SANATA DHARMA YOGYAKARTA 2021 ii PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First of all, I would like to express my praises and gratitude to God for giving me an endless blessing. I am so grateful to be given the health and the opportunity to finish this thesis. Second, I would like to express my special thank of gratitude to my thesis advisor Fransisca Kristanti S.Pd. M.Hum who provides guidance, ideas, and suggestion in helping me to complete this undergraduate thesis. I also feel grateful to my co-advisor Harris Hermansyah Setiajid, M.Hum. for detailed corrections to my thesis and suggestions to make this thesis better. I would also show my gratitude to Sanata Dharma’s staff who help me. Third, I would like to thank my parents and brothers who give me unconditional support and motivation to finish this undergraduate thesis. My appreciation also goes to my friends who willing to help in finishing this task. Irine Sih Yuwanti vii PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI TABLE OF CONTENTS TITLE PAGE………………………………………………………………... ii APPROVAL PAGE…………………………………………………………. iii ACCEPTANCE PAGE……………………………………………………... iv STATEMENT OF ORIGINALITY……………………………………….. v LEMBAR PERNYATAAN PERSETUJUAN PUBLIKASI KARYA ILMIAH…………………………………………………….………………... vi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS…………………………………………………… vii TABLE OF CONTENTS…………………………………………………… viii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS………………………………………………... x ABSTRACT…………………………………………………………………. xi ABSTRAK……………………………………………………………………. xii CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION………………………………………….. 1 A. Background of the Study………………………………………………. 1 B. Problem Formulation…………………………………………………... 3 C. Objectives of the Study………………………………………………… 3 D. Definition of Terms……………………………………………………. 4 CHAPTER II: REVIEW OF LITERATURE…………………………... 5 A. Review of Related Studies……………………………………………... 5 B. Review of Related Theories……………………………………………. 7 1. Syntax……………………………………………………………... 7 2. Adjective Phrase…………………………………………………... 10 a. Adjective Phrase’s Function………………………………….. 10 i. Attributive………………………………………………... 10 ii. Subject Complement……………………………………... 11 iii. Object Complement……………………………………… 12 iv. Postpositive………………………………………………. 12 b. Adjective Phrase’s Structure………………………………….. 13 i. Adjective Phrase with No Modifier……………………… 13 ii. Adjective Phrase with a Specifier………………………... 13 iii. Adjective Phrase with Adjunct…………………………... 14 iv. Adjective Phrase with Complement …………………….. 16 v. Adjective Phrase with Different Types of Elements…….. 17 C. Theoretical Framework………………………………………………… 18 CHAPTER III: METHODOLOGY……………………………………….. 20 A. Object of the Study…………………………………………………….. 20 B. Approach of the Study…………………………………………………. 20 C. Method of the Study…………………………………………………… 21 viii PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 1. Data Collection……………………………………………………. 21 2. Data Analysis……………………………………………………… 22 CHAPTER IV: ANALYSIS RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS…………... 24 A. The Adjective Phrases’ Function in the Magazine Articles…………… 24 1. Adjective Phrases as Attributive…………………………………... 26 2. Adjective Phrases as Subject Complement………………………... 30 3. Adjective Phrases as Object Complement………………………… 32 4. Adjective Phrases as Postpositive…………………………………. 33 B. Adjective Phrases’ Structure in the Magazine Articles………………... 34 1. Structure of Adjective Phrases as Attributive……………………... 34 a. Adjective……………………………………………………… 35 b. Adverb Phrase + Adjective…………………………………… 35 2. Structure of Adjective Phrases as Subject Complement…………... 36 a. Adjective……………………………………………………… 37 b. Adverb Phrase + Adjective…………………………………… 38 c. Adjective + Verb Phrase……………………………………… 39 d. Adjective + Prepositional Phrase……………………………... 40 e. Adjective + Clause……………………………………………. 41 f. Adverb Phrase + Adjective + Prepositional Phrase…………... 42 g. Adverb Phrase + Adjective + Prepositional Phrase + Verb Phrase…………………………………………………………. 44 3. Structure of Adjective Phrases as Object Complement…………… 45 a. Adjective……………………………………………………… 45 4. Structure of Adjective Phrases as Postpositive……………………. 46 a. Adjective + Verb Phrase……………………………………… 46 b. Adjective + Prepositional Phrase……………………………... 47 CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION…………………………………………….. 49 REFERENCES……………………………………………………………… 51 APPENDICES………………………………………………………………. 52 Appendix 1: The Functions and Structures of Adjective Phrases Found in Beauty Unfolds in North Lombok by Stephanie Brookes……………….. 52 Appendix 2: The Functions and Structures of Adjective Phrases Found in A Road Trip to the West Coast of Java by Rintang Azhar………………. 59 ix PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS Adj : Adjective AdjP : Adjective Phrase AdvP : Adverb Phrase C : Clause D : Determiner NP : Noun Phrase PP : Prepositional Phrase VP : Verb Phrase x PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI ABSTRACT YUWANTI, IRINE SIH. (2021). Functions and Structures of Adjective Phrases in Travel Section Articles of Now! Jakarta Magazine. Yogyakarta: Department of English Letters, Faculty of Letters, Universitas Sanata Dharma. An adjective phrase is applied to describe a characteristic or give opinions related to certain people or things. An adjective phrase can be found inside a structure of a clause or a phrase. It is applied in different structural patterns to communicate the idea of a writer or a speaker. This study analyzes adjective phrases from NOW! Jakarta magazine on Travel section’s articles because is it contains most adjective phrases compared to other section and the magazine is an Indonesian magazine written ing English which describes places in Indonesia. There are two objectives of this study. First, this study aims to identify the syntactic functions of adjective phrases taken from NOW! Jakarta magazine on Travel section’s articles. The second objective is to know the elements that form adjective phrases and the relation between the elements in each syntactic function of adjective phrases from the articles. The object of this study is adjective phrases. The data are taken from two selected articles of NOW! Jakarta magazine on travel section, entitled Beauty Unfolds in North Lombok by Stephanie Brookes and A Road Trip to the West Coast of Java by Rintang Azhar. This study applies syntactic approach to be able to identify how adjective phrases are applied in phrases or clauses and the structures of adjective phrases. The result shows that there are 217 adjective phrases found in the two selected articles. The functions of adjective phrases that are found in the articles are 189 adjective phrases as attributive with two structures (Adjective, Adverb Phrase + Adjective), 24 adjective phrases as subject complement with seven structures (Adjective, Adverb Phrase + Adjective, Adjective + Verb Phrase, Adjective + Prepositional Phrase, Adjective + Clause, Adverb Phrase + Adjective + Prepositional Phrase, Adverb Phrase + Adjective + Prepositional Phrase + Verb Phrase), 1 adjective phrase as object complement with one structure (Adjective), and 3 adjective phrases as postpositive with two structures (Adjective + Verb Phrase, Adjective + Prepositional Phrase). Keywords: adjective phrase, adjective phrase’s function, adjective phrase’s structure xi PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI ABSTRAK YUWANTI, IRINE SIH. (2021). Functions and Structures of Adjective Phrases in Travel Section Articles of Now! Jakarta Magazine. Yogyakarta: Program Studi Sastra Inggris, Fakultas Sastra, Universitas Sanata Dharma. Frasa adjektival digunakan untuk mendeskripsikan karakteristik atau memberikan opini tentang orang atau benda. Frasa adjektival dapat ditemukan di dalam struktur klausa atau frasa. Frasa adjektival ini diterapkan dalam pola struktural yang berbeda untuk mengkomunikasikan gagasan penulis atau pembicara. Penelitian ini menganalisa frasa adjektival dalam artikel majalah NOW! Jakarta pada bagian Travel karena mengandung frasa adjektival paling banyak dibanding bagian lain dalam majalah tersebut dan majalah tersebut juga merupakan majalah terbitan Indonesia berbahasa Inggris yang mendeskripsikan berbagai tempat di Indonesia. Terdapat dua tujuan dari penelitian ini. Pertama, penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengidentifikasi fungsi sintaksis dari frasa adjektival yang diambil dari artikel majalah NOW! Jakarta pada bagian Travel. Tujuan kedua adalah untuk mengetahui unsur-unsur pembentuk frasa adjektival dan keterkaitan antar unsur- unsur tersebut pada masing-masing fungsi sintaksis frasa adjektival dari artikel tersebut. Objek penelitian ini adalah frasa adjektival. Data diambil dari dua artikel majalah NOW! Jakarta bagian Travel berjudul “Beauty Unfolds in North Lombok” yang ditulis oleh Stephanie Brookes dan “A Road Trip to the West Coast of Java” yang ditulis oleh Rintang Azhar. Penelitian ini menerapkan pendekatan sintaksis untuk mengidentifikasi penggunaan frasa adjektival dalam frasa lain atau klausa