Journal MELT (Medium for English Language Teaching)
Vol 7, No 1 (2022): MELT June 2022

The Analysis of Prepositional Phrases in Analytical Exposition Texts “Why is Social Distancing Important during Corona Pandemic?” and “The Importance of Wearing Mask during COVID-19 Pandemic Era”

Yenita Uswar (English Language Education Universias Potensi Utama)
Ikhawanul Mubarrak Lubis (Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris, Fakultas Ilmu Sosial dan Kependidikan, Universitas Potensi Utama)



Article Info

Publish Date
23 Aug 2022

Abstract

Language is a communication tool to express human feelings and thoughts. Learning one of texts that is Analytical Exposition Texts in important in English Lesson. Analytical Exposition text is basically an opinion writing about a phenomenon or event. This paper is one type of Argumentation Text which explains the thoughts of the author. The researcher analysed one of parts of speech that was in the Analytical Exposition, was preposition, and the analysis of preposition is using syntactic form in where preposition had to related to other words and it called Prepositional Phrases. The researcher chosen two texts of Analytical Exposition Text “Why is Social Distancing Important during Corona Pandemic?" and “The Importance of Wearing Mask during COVID-19 Pandemic Era” as the data analysis. This research was using descriptive qualitative research method. In the two analytical Exposition Texts, PP was found in almost sentences in the two texts. The domination of using PP was seen in the syntactic forms, they were PP = P + NP (det + N) and PP = P + NP (N). The rest was PP = P + NP (N-num + N), PP = P + NP (det + A + N), PP = P + NP (N + N) and PP = P + NP (A + N). It could be concluded that the using of NP (det + N) in PP was dominated in all sentences in the two texts of Analytical Exposition Text.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

MELT

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Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Journal MELT (Medium for English Language Teaching) is a scientific journal which published by English Education Study Program, University of Potensi Utama Medan. MELT Journal published twice a year in June and December. This journal is the forum for academics and researchers to share the ...