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struggle in joining several merchant ships that tried to go to Bangkok from England. Within the journey, Marlow became the second mate in the ship. The
ship was called Judea. In his journey, the ship got terrible accidents. In the middle of the way, leakage had attacked the old Judea so that all crew had to pump the
water out of the ship. Besides that, near the end of the journey, the ship was burnt and finally all crew have managed to save their life by moving on several small
emergency boats. Then in few days after, they were helped by merchant ship from Singapore to take them to land.
B. Approach of the Study
As a linguistics study, the writer uses certain approaches on linguistic survey in this analysis. Since the study analyzes syntactic structures, the study of
syntax is properly used in the way to get the understanding of the data. Nominal clauses, as syntactic elements, are studied in how they perform as clauses with
certain type, function and condition. All of those are a part study of syntax. Syntax, as a study of external structure of word, gives us basic knowledge, terms
and theories in seeing and examining a written text. Based on theories of syntax, the data were collected from the corpus. The reason of choosing syntax as the
approach of the study to analyze the data was because in this thesis, to answer problem number one, the writer deals a lot with syntactic structure of sentence and
clause especially. In syntax, theories and rules of the application of syntactic elements to form the nominal clauses are found. Therefore, the aspects of syntax
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had taken big roles in the way the writer understand what is called as nominal clauses and has helped the writer to analyze those data from the corpus.
In answering problem number 2 there is a different approach used by the writer. A stylistic approach is used to analyze the data. Stylistics, as a study of
style in language Verdonk 2002: 3, had a scope on how one writing work reflecting the author writing style. Stylistics took the major role in the
understanding because basically stylistics went through to examine the grammar then related it to the author tendency and readers’ effect. To identify the writing
style of the author, basic principles of stylistics especially on speeches and thought representations were a sole of the analysis about how and what function
and purpose of using certain pattern, in this case were nominal clauses. Both approaches are used because in concluding the problem, there are two different
focuses to be answered. There are on syntactic elements and stylistic elements.
C. Method of the Study
