INTRODUCTION 1 The Background of the Study

1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 The Background of the Study Language is a tool of communication. It is one important thing in human life. Without language, the human can not communicate to each other. But sometimes, they can not communicate the other people especially with the people in other countries. Therefore, the whole world chooses some languages, one of them is English. It is to be the one of international language where all countries should to learn it. Learning English is not easy. There are many words in English which have the same word but have different meaning. Besides English has also a complicated structure or grammar. Hancock 2005:6 says, “Grammar is the natural, inherent, meaning- making system of the language, a system that governs the way words come together to form meanings; grammar is also the study of that system, the various theories or perspectives that attempt to understand and describe it.” Grammar describes the kinds or words in a language and the ways the word are fitted together into meaningful groups. In other words, grammar is the description of language. It describes the kinds of words in a language nouns, verbs, adverbs, and so on and how the users of the language put single words together into meaning groups. However, there are so many parts of grammar. one of them is conjunction. Conjunction is the connector of one sentence or clausephrase to another sentence or clausephrase. Not only tenses, verbs, or adverbs, but conjunction is Universitas sumatera utara also important to be learned. Conjunction is almost always used in newspaper, magazine and novel. Like in Julia Quinn’s novel Ten Things I Love about You, there are so many conjunctions. This paper analyses the kinds, the use and the function of the conjunction from that novel.

1.2 The Problem of the Study

The problems in this paper are : 1 What kinds of conjunction are found in the novel? 2 How are the conjunction used? 3 What are the functions of conjunction?

1.3 The Scope of the Study

The scope of the study in Julia Quinn’s novel Ten Things I Love about You is the conjunction. This paper analyses the kinds, funtions, and uses of conjunctions. 1.4 The Purpose of the Study The purposes of the study are : 1 To find out and to classify the kinds of conjunction in Julia Quinn’s novel Ten Things I Love about You . 2 To describe the functions of conjunction. 3 To describe the uses of conjunction. Universitas sumatera utara

1.5 The Reasons for Choosing the Topic

The reason for choosing the conjunction is because conjunction has many items, functions, and the uses which confuses the learners to learn.

1.6 The Method of Research

In writing this paper, the library method of research is used. As the sources of data, the writer takes from the novel. Finally, the writer combines and tabulates the conjunctions based on their type in order to find out which type is used the most often in that novel. Universitas sumatera utara

2. THEORITICAL FRAME WORK