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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
A. Object of the Study
The writer would like to focus on the noun phrases in a novel entitled
Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
by Cassandra Clare as the object of the study. The novel was published in 2007 and become one of the best seller fiction adventure
book according to nytimes.com,
The New York Times
Best Seller List. It is a famous and successful best-selling book lists in the United States.
Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
was first addressed for the young-adult readers but later teenage readers are the majority fan of this novel because of the main character that happens to be
teenagers.
Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
is the first book of other upcoming books series such as
City of Ashes
,
City of Glass
,
City of Fallen Angels
,
City of Lost Souls
, and
City of Heavenly Fire
. The title
Mortal Instruments
itself is the part of trilogy book by the author, Cassandra Clare. It is an adventurous story about a
demon hunter battling the evil force lurking in the world. Clarissa Fray, the main character, is not aware that she is actually the part of Shadowhunter World. It is a
parallel world with the angel and demon half-breed inhabitants live in this very earth. With the assistance of Jace Wayland, she is introduced to that brand new
world with some mysteries yet to be uncovered. The linguistic elements from the novel to be analyzed in this study are
noun phrases. Noun phrase can serve different functions in a sentence. This study PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
tries to identify the function of noun phrase distributions along with the analysis of its type. In order to make the analysis comprehensible to the readers, the writer
would like to limit the data of noun phrase found in the novel. The noun phrase that is going to be analyzed is taken from the complete sentences of one of the
character’s utterances throughout the story of the novel, in this case is Jace Wayland’s utterances. Noun phrase can only consist of one word in terms of
construction. However, in order to avoid ambiguity in the analysis, the writer only seeks the noun phrase that only consists of more than one word in this study.
B. Approach of the Study
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