1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
Language is one of the most important things
in human being, because it plays a great
role in human life for making interaction. By using language someone could make statements, convey facts
and knowledge, explain or report something,
and keep social relations among the language users. These indicate that by means of language, people can express
their ideas, feeling, information, and
messages through communication.
Grammar is a body of rules
specifying how meanings are created in English.
Veit (1986:6) states that grammar is a person’s subconscious language knowledge. To be good in English we have to
know the grammar because it is one of
the basic elements in English. Some terms that included in grammar are parts of speech. According to Frank (1972:1) traditionally,
words can be classified into eight parts
of speech such as noun, pronoun, adjective, verb, adverb, conjunction, preposition, and interjection.
Ehrilch (2004:126) states that
conjunctions are words, which join words, phrases, or clauses. It is divided into two
types: theyare coordinating conjunction and
subordinating conjunction. Conjunction is a universal aspect of language, all languages have conjunction. Without it, every
sentence will be short and unrelated to
its neighbors and it will take a long time to say everything.
In
communication people use conjunction, both in spoken language and written language such as in magazineand
newspaper. The function of using conjunction
in communication is to tie a word with another word and a clause with another clause. So it will help us to
understand the connection of the sentences
or the paragraphs. International magazine extends the news from the events all over the world by using English. Thus,
people who want to know more information
have to learn English. Among so many languages in the world, there is one language which is used more widely by
people in the different countries such
as Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, America, Canada, India, Pakistan, New Zealand, Philippines, and Sri Lanka, that is
English. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ List_of_countries_where_English_is_an_official_language).
Time Magazine is one of the
English magazines in Indonesia which is published
weekly. Time Magazine containes of various articles, such as advertisement, commentary, global
business,arts and global adviser. In this magazine, the writer finds out there are a lot
of coordinators used, for examples: 1.
The Prime Minister said afterthe votethat he would seek a new, more democratric constitution if he is re-elected
in 2011.
2. The home team lost
64-81,butmost Turks celebrated the factthat their side evengot to the final.
3. But neither Washingtonnor
Seoul is prepared to rush into an early resumption of the talks untilthey have a sensethat they
will deliver anything morethan bragging
rights in Pyongyang thatit has forced the U.S. back to the table.
4. Because of its wealth
andgeography,only China is in a position to generate solar energy on a massive scale.
5. They
have ammased that hoard of cash, andare now growing on a average 20% a year, at a timewhen the economies of
Europe, the U.S. and Japan are flat.
From the sentences above, the coordinating
conjunctions are “and” to link the ideas
in sentence 1 and 5 , “but” to show the contrast ideas in sentence 3, “only” to express opposition or contrast
between two statements in sentence 4, “neither…nor”
to express a choice between two alternatives in sentence 3. The subordinating conjunctions are “that” as an
introductory word to the other sentences
in sentence 1,2,3, and 5, “after”, “until”,and “when”to show the time in sentence 1, 3, and 5, “if”to show condition
in sentence 1, “even”to show the contrast
in sentence 2, “than”to show the comparison in sentence 3, and “because of”to show the cause in sentence 4.
Based on the previous
explanation, the writer is interested in analyzing the conjunction used in Time Magazine articles.
She took six articles in the Time Magazine,
they are three articles that are published in nd August 2010 and three articles that are published th September 2010 as the data source in this
study.
Besides that, there are some
functions of conjunctions in writing articles, they are relate the ideas in the following text
logically to each other and relate the sentences
in paragraphs of the articles.So that the readers can understand it and get information easily
(http://www.nzenterprise.com/writer/creative.htm).
1.2
Problem of the Study The problems of the study are: 1. What are the types of conjunctions used in
the six articles of Time Magazine published
in nd August 2010 and th September 2010? 2. What are the dominant types of conjunctions
used in the six articles of Time Magazine
published in nd August 2010 and th September 2010? 1.3 Purpose of the Study The purposes of the study are: 1. To find out the types of conjunctions used
in the six articles of Time Magazine
published in nd August 2010 and th September 2010.
2. To find out the dominant types
of conjunctions used in the six articles of Time Magazine published in nd August 2010 and th September.
1.4 Scope of the Study This study
is focused on conjunctions, coordinating conjunctions and subordinating conjunctions found in the the
six articles of Time Magazine published
in nd August 2010 and th September 2010.
1.5 Significance of the Study There
are some significances of the study, they are theoretically to enrich knowledge in analyzing the grammar, especially
the conjunctions and practically to be a
reference for the next researcher in analyzing the conjunctions.
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