1.2 Problem of Study
The writer would like to formulate the problems: 1.
Most of people who want to communication in English do not understand about the compound sentence and when we must use the compound sentence.
2. It is very often of the non-native speakers of English misinterpreted the
compound sentence. So they can not catch the idea of compound sentence. 3.
To find out the types of sentence used in Jakarta Post Newspaper.
1.3 The Scope of Study
When we want to discuss about the compound sentence there will be a problem of things to be discussed. As we know there are many kind of sentences
which are very important to study, but it is certainly impossible to explain them one by one in this paper. Therefore on this occasion the writer wants to be limited
this discussion just focused in the compound sentence.
1.4 The Purpose of Study
The purpose of the study is to show the readers the pattern of the compound sentence, to find out any types of the compound sentence used in the
Jakarta Post Newspaper and make the learners understand the usage of simple, compound, complex and the compound-complex sentences. The writer also
wishes that the readers will know and understand about the kind of sentences and when we must use them. And the writer really hopes that the learners can use
them correctly based on the English structure in the studies or in the daily conversation.
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1.5 The Significance of Study
By writing this paper, the writer hopes that the learners can improve their knowledge about English especially about the sentence and they can control it or
make it better when they connect to the others. In addition, the writer believes that this paper can enrich the knowledge to the person who wishes to study about
English and it can be one of the literature materials for the knowledge’s development.
1.6 The Method of Study
The method was applied for this writing is the library research. To complete this paper, the writer will collect all the required data from the Jakarta
post Newspaper was published on Monday, November 15, 2010 at page 1, page 2 and Page 3. So it means that data are written in the Jakarta Post Newspaper.
In order to get the percentage of compound sentences that mostly occur in the Jakarta Post Newspaper, the following formula from Nawawi 1991; 150 will
be used: X x 100 = N
Y N = Number of compound sentences
Y = Total number of all data N = Percentage of the compound sentences
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2. A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF SENTENCES 2.1 Definition of sentence
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