INTRODUCTION
1.1 The Background of the Study Language is the most important thing in
human life. By using language, people can communicate and interact with other
people. There are many languages in the world. As we all know, English is the
international language. This language is very important as a means of communication
with other languages in the world, so the
language should be under our control. By
mastering the English language, everyone
can master the knowledge in
any field. To gets language skills,
everyone required to be able to master
grammar properly. Mastery of grammar is good and right, it easier for someone to apply language
skills in oral and written form. By itself we have a broad view of our future
events, nations, and countries.
Grammar in English language is
considered hard to master by the Indonesian people because it contains many items. One of
the items is Conjunctions. In “Modern English,
A Practical Reference Guide” by Marcella Frank in 1972 said : “Most
conjunctions are historically derived from other parts of speech, particularly from prepositions. The conjunctions are
members of a small class that have no characteristic
form. ( page 206 )”.
English language dominates the
exchange of news around the world, such as news article in a magazine. For instance in
Indonesia, Tempo magazine uses English.
We can find that there are
conjunctions used.
Here the writer analyzes the use of
conjunctions in the articles of Tempo magazine.
Besides that, she wants to know how often the kinds of conjunctions are used in the Tempo.
1.2 The Problem of the Study The writer founds
problem to know about the extent to which journalists from the magazine using
the conjunctions in writings they produce and also to know the conjunctions which are the
most frequently used and most rarely used
in the article. In addition, it also allows the students for using the use of conjunctions in making an article.
1.3 The Scope of the Study Learning English
grammar is not an easy thing because English language is not the second language of Indonesian people.
In order to make the learners not to be confused
in learning this paper, the writer limits the study on conjunctions in the articles of Tempo Magazine published on March
29, 2011; April 12, 2011; April 19, 2011;
and April 26, 2011. This study explains the definition, usage and
classification of using of conjunctions.
1.4 The Purpose of the Study The purposes of the
study are: 1. To find out and classify
the kinds of conjunctions in the articles of Tempo Magazine.
2. To find out the most dominant use of
conjunctions in the articles of Tempo Magazine.
1.5 The
Significance of the Study The significances of the study are: 1. To enrich knowledge about kinds of
conjunctions.
2. To guide the learner in
studying conjunctions.
3. To be a references for the next researcher in
analyze the grammar.
1.6 The Method of Research In writing this paper,
the writer uses a method of research, that is, library research. She collects and reads some kind of
English grammar books as her references.
The writer also takes some articles from Tempo Magazine and internet as the sources of data. The data, the
conjunctions, found in the articles are then identified and categorized. Finally, the
writer combines and tabulates the conjunctions
based on their type in order to find out which type is used the most often in those articles.
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