BAB I INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study Nowadays, there are many novels written
variously such as horror, drama, comedy
and mystery. The novels are also written in difference styles of writing which are adjusted to the readers’ interest.
The differences of writing styles can be seen through the way of pouring out the
author’s mind and feeling. In addition, the style can be seen through the dictions that
used in every sentence in the novels.
These styles are purposed by made
to attractthe readers and to help them easily to figure out the ideas contained in every
sentence.
Sidney Sheldon is very popular for his best
selling novels. One of his interesting
and thriller novels is ‘If Tomorrow Comes. If Tomorrow Comes is the fourth novel of Sheldon which was published in
1985. This novel could grasp the top best
seller in America. The setting of the novel is in 1980s which discusses about
the story of a perfect woman, Tracy
Whitney. She is beautiful and undergoing a good career in popular bank. She also has a
veryhandsome and rich fiancé. Simply, she has a perfect life. Yet the condition
immediately changes asher mother dies. She is betrayed and accused for doing crime, which
she actually never commits. She has no defender
to set her free from the accusation. She is put into jail and finally left by
her fiancé, whom she really loves very
much. Furthermore, when she leaves the prison for freedom, she plans to revenge and succeeds
with the help of her friend.
The story flows smoothly and nicely. Sheldon
really helps the readers to figure out
what Sheldon expects the readers to. She uses every sentence well and attractively. Sheldon also arranges a very
detail of setting and place along the plot 2 which
takes place in several countries. Thistechnique makes the readers fell as if they are involved in the place too.
In a novel, there are many sentences which can
be discussed orused to be the object of
a research. The research can be done on the structure of sentences and the meaning as well. One of them is by discussing
about the intransitive sentences in the novel.
The kinds of sentence can be easily found in a novel as they are intended to explain several situations and action which
are done by the subjects in the novel.
Intransitive sentence cannot be
changed into passive sentence as it has no object.
Based on the theory Downing and Locke,the
transitive sentence classifies in to
four intransitive patterns, namely: Subject – Predicate, Subject – Predicate – Locative Complement, Subject – Predicate –
Adjunct, And Subject – Predicate – Complement
of the Subject. But the simplest pattern is Subject and Predicate, Veit (1986:26) in his book Discovering English
Grammar gives some example of intransitive
sentences as: the monkey wheezed. This intransitive sentence contains subject (the monkey) and predicate (wheezed).
Another example of intransitive sentence
can be seen in the sentence: she runs. Beside Veit. Downing and Locke (1992:85) give some examples which consist of
more complete patterns as follows: - We walked home (Subject-Predicate-Locative
Complement) - Her latest novel has become a best-seller.
(Subject-Predicate-Complement of the
subject) Based on the explanation above, the writer
finally comes to conclusion that intransitive
sentence have several patterns. So, many things can explain in the intransitive sentence, and that is why the
writer is interested in analyzing the intransitive
sentence found in Sidney Sheldon’s If Tomorrow Comes.So, the writer 3 determines
to do further research about thiscase in order to enrich both the writer and readers knowledge.
1.2 Problem of the Study The problem that the writer wants to analyze
in this thesis are formulated in to two
sentences as follows: 1. What are the pattern of intransitive
sentences found in Sheldon’s If Tomorrow
Comes? 2. What are the kinds of verbs used in every
intransitive sentence in Sheldon’s If
Tomorrow Comes? 1.3 Objective of the
Study In relation of the statement of problem above,
the objective study of this analysis can
be formulated as follows: 1. To find out the pattern intransitive
sentences in Sheldon’s If Tomorrow Comes.
2. To find out the kinds of verbs in the
intransitive sentences found in Sheldon’s If Tomorrow Comes.
1.4 Scope of the Study A
research without a scope will emergevagueness. So, the scope of the study is talking about: -
Intransitive sentence in Sheldon’s If Tomorrow Comes.
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Sentence structure in Sheldon’s If Tomorrow Comes.
4 1.5 Significance of the Study The
significance of the study are expected to be useful for: 1. The
writer to understand more about intransitive sentence.
2. The reader who wants to get knowledge about
intransitive sentence theory. It would
provide better and clearer understanding at the types of intransitive sentence in a text novel.
3. The student especially the student of English
Department to enlarge their knowledge
about intransitive sentence.
4. The other researchers provide some valuable
information particularly to another
researcher who would like to conduct a much deeper of intransitive sentence.
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