CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
1.1 The Background of Study Language is a means
of communication. Communication can only take place successfully if the means of communication is
agreed upon by its users. As human beings,
we rely upon language in carrying out almost all of our activities. We know that society could not exist without language.
Language is a human activity performed
in time and space, and in almost constant interaction of one human being with other. Sapir (1949 : 8) cites “language
is purely human and non instinctive method
of communicating ideas, emotions, desires by means of systems of voluntary produced symbols. “It means language is a
systematical means of communicating ideas
or feeling by the used of signs, gestures, or marks having understood meaning and it is used when we interact with other
people in social group or society.
Language is not only a means we
use, it is also a reflection of our thought, our hopes and our values. As we play our
various roles – as student, as son or daughter, and soon – observe how people
in various occupations and situations use English in somewhat different ways. Observe
too, that language varies according to the
purpose for which it is being used. The users of language are constantly uttering
new sentences that they have never
uttered before and interpreting utterances that they have never heard before, either in spoken
or written language.
In English, we recognize two
kinds of sentences, those are active and passive voice sentences. In this thesis, the writer
wants to analyze about the passive voice 8 because
sheconsiders that the problem in passive voice still need to be explained and moreover, the passive voice is often used in a
daily conversation either in formal or informal
language. The passive voice is used more frequently in written than spoken English. It is ally found in text books,
scientific, business, technical report, government
report and in magazines. However, in spoken language, it is used quite frequently in television and radio news report
and in commercials. In a passive voice sentences,
we want to emphasize the action, what happened rather than who and what performs the action.
As we know, passive voice is ally
used in form all languages. One of the formal
languages that we can find in our daily life is the language which is used in magazines. In addition, magazines show
economic and social phenomenon of our society.
They are major forces in forming public opinion of the world and this mightily affects national and international
efforts toward economic progress and global
understanding.
There are many magazines both
English and Indonesian magazines that we can find in Indonesia. One of them is “The
Inside sumatera”. It is a well known magazine
which is published every month in Indonesia as the alternative English magazine. It contains the news about Tourism
in Sumatra.
1.2 The Problems of Study The
problems of study are : a. The classification of the passive voice
sentences found on the magazine of The Inside Sumatra magazine.
9 b. The use of the passive voice sentences found
the magazine.
c. The dominant passive sentences that are used
in the magazine.
1.3 The Objective of Study This
thesis has three objectives based on the problems, they are : a. To classify the passive voice sentences used
in the magazine “Inside Sumatra”.
b. To describe the uses of passive voice found
on the magazine.
c. To find out the dominant passive voice
sentences which are in used in the magazine
of : The Inside Sumatra”.
1.4 The Scope of Study In this
thesis, the writer limits the discussion of the problems as specific as possible on the title. Thus, it will be better
by making limitation to analyze the passive
voice. Passive voice is one of the most important parts of grammar. Passive voice is classified into two parts, they are:
agentive passive and non-agentive passive.
Therefore, the scope of writing in this thesis is about passive voice are found
in Inside Sumatera Magazine.
1.5 The Significance of Study To make this thesis useful for others,
some significance could be drawn as follow
: a. To develop the writer’s knowledge
on grammar especially about passive voice
.
b. To make the non – native speaker of English
understand passive voice especially in this regard.
c. To be a reference for the readers who want to
learn about English grammar especially
about passive voice.
d. To improve
the way to study English grammar.
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