A Syntactic Analysis of Noun Phrase in Pride and Prejudice Novel by Jane Austen
This study is about a phrase in English, especially the English noun phrase in the novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Noun phrase is a phrase which has a noun as a head and consists of a noun and all the words that modify it. The objectives of this research are: 1) to identify the modi...
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| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English English English English English |
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2007
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.ums.ac.id/10821/ |
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| Summary: | This study is about a phrase in English, especially the English noun phrase
in the novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Noun phrase is a phrase which
has a noun as a head and consists of a noun and all the words that modify it. The
objectives of this research are: 1) to identify the modifiers of English Noun Phrase
used in the Pride and Prejudice novel, and 2) To describe the distribution of the
modifiers of noun phrase in the Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
This research is descriptive qualitative research that describes the English
noun phrase modifier and its distribution in a sentence. This research is
concentrated on grammatical structure with applying the syntactic structure of
modification to analyze the data by using Chinese box. The data are English noun
phrases collected by using observation.
The results of the research are: 1) there are six modifiers of English noun
phrase. They are: a) adjective/adjective phrase, b) noun, c) prepositional phrase, d)
infinitive, e) adverb, f) clause. 2) Based on the position, there are three positions
of modifiers, those are, a) pre-position (before N), post-position (after N), and c)
before and after N. |
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