Background of the Study

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of the Study

Siahaan 2008 says, “Languange is a unique human inheritance that plays the very important role in human’s life, such as in thinking, communicating ideas, and negotiating with the others.” It constitutes a set of principles into which its usage its native speakers are subject. The language show similarities in their principles. The similarities refer to the set of the rules that every language possesses, while the differences deals with the deviation of every language in its rules in its chronological development that is influenced by the different regions, times, cultures, religions, politics, etc. The similarities of the language can be identified structurally in the level of their linguistic aspects, such as in the phonemes, morphemes, phrases, clauses, and sentences. Stork 1982:9 says, “Language, however, is not a natural phenomenon; it is a creation of man’s social needs. Like all other living creatures we depend on the air, water and earth around us, and in the same way society depends upon language for its very existence.” Huddleston 2000:1 says, “The term ‘grammar’ is used in a number of different senses-the grammar of a language may be understood to be a full description of the form and meaning of the sentences of the language or else it may cover oly certain, variously delimited, parts of such a description.” There are many languages in the world. One of them is English, as International language. English has a complicated structure or grammar. Grammar describe the kinds of words in a language and the ways the word are fitted together into meaningful groups. In other, grammar is description of language. However, there are so many parts of grammar. One of them is gerund. A Gerund is the form of a verb when it acts as a noun ; a Gerund often known as an-ing word is a noun formed from a verb by adding-ing. Gerund is also find in written. For example letter, poem, novel, magazine, newspaper, etc. The writer’s object is the gerund on novel, the vampire diaries. In this paper will be analyzed what the meaning of gerund, the patterns of gerund ad the function of gerund in the vampire diaries. This paper discusses gerund in the Vampire Diaries because gerund is one of the grammatical cases. Which is difficult to study. Besides, in the novel there are many gerund used.

1.2 Problem of the Study