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system. Consequently, negligence of semantics may result in appropriateness in teaching lexical and sentence meaning. On level of lexical meaning, igmorance of
semantics in TEFL may create false concept of synonym, antonyms, and ambiguity. On the level of sentence meaing, problem of grammaticality and
acceptability may appear. Related to the sentence meaning and some problems of grammar including
learning the agreed-upon meaning of certain strings of sounds and learning how to combine these meaning or practical. Semantics it also needed for those who want
to be a good speaker, writer, or communication better in their daily life activities. The description shows semantic as a branch of linguistics devoted to the study is
quite important not only for language teachers and for students but also for those who want to communicate better in the society.
2.3 Definition of Situation
Crossman 2013: 43 states that
situation as subject matter of sentences describes states of the society of affairs, events, actions.
W.I.Thomas 1923: 20 states that
situation is what people use to know what is expected of them and what is expected of others in a situation. Through the definition of the situation, people
obtain a sense of the statuses and roles of those involved in the situation so that they know how to behave. In semantics, situation is used as a cover term for
actions, processes and states. The concept ‘situation’ is so basic that it is very difficult to define it. In describing languages, a fundamental contrast is between
situations and participants. Situations are expressed by clauses and participants
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are generally expressed by noun phrases. Often the term situation is also used to refer the verb’s meaning which can more precisely be called situation core.
2.4 Situation Type
Situation Type is also known as lexical aspect or a action art of a verb is a part of the way in which that verb is structured in relation to time. Oshima, D.Y
2012: 45 states that situation type is distinguished from grammatical aspect : Situation type is an inherent property of a semantics eventuality, whereas
grammatical aspect is a property of a syntactic or morphological realization. Situation type is invariant, while grammatical aspect can be changed according to
the attitude of the speaker. Situation type is aspect that describes the situation that relates to time
which arises from its meaning. Situation type as subject matter of sentences is focused by their verbs and arguments. It concerns the internal temporal
constituency of a type of situation denoted by a given predicate. Vendler 1967:97-121 calssifies four situation types, they are : states,
activities, accomplishments and achievements. They will be discussed more under this section..
2.4.1 States
A State is type of situation or state of affairs. Binnick, R 1991 states that states are non-dynamic ,i.e. they are not associated with change in the
physical, tempolar etc. conditions. States are situations static unchanging, qualities of emotional and physical throughout their duration. Also, state are
