Scripta-English Department Journal
Vol. 6 No. 1 (2019)

The Analysis of Prepositional Phrases Found in Song Lyrics of Fool’s Garden’s Album Dish of the Day and Its Application in Teaching Writing Recount Text

Edy Prasetyo (Universitas Muhammadiyah Purworejo, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 May 2019

Abstract

This study uses descriptive qualitative because the researcher would like todescribe about the structures and the function of prepositional phrases found in thesong lyrics of Fool’s Garden’s Album Dish of the Day and its application in teachingwriting recount text. The researcher used documentation method to collect the data.The researcher did some steps such as listening, searching, reading, finding, collectingdata and coding the data.The result of this study shows that there are three structures of prepositionalphrases. They are 96 Preposition + Noun / Noun Phrase (95. 5%), 4 Preposition + NounClause (3. 9 %), and 1 Preposition + ing Phrase (0. 9 %). Whereas, based on thefunctions, there are three functions of prepositional phrases. They are 17 post-modifierof a noun (20.4%), 5 post-modifier of an adjective (6.0%), and 61 adverbial (73.4 %). Inaddition, the prepositional phrases found in Song Lyrics of Fool’s Garden’s Album Dish ofthe Day can be applied in teaching writing at the tenth grade students of Senior HighSchool particularly in recount text.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

scripta

Publisher

Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Scripta-English Department Journal is Journal that publishes academic articles that recognize successful engaged learning depends on effective partnerships between students, faculty, community agencies, administrators, disciplines, and more. The journal invites submission of 1) Research that ...