1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 The Background of Study
Language is very important for human being. It is used as tool of communication and interaction by members of society one to another, such as getting and giving
information, expressing their ideas and doing other activities. Learning a language means how to communicate in that language to convey information to some one, message to
somebody else from either speaker or writer to listeners or readers. So, if some one wants to study a language, he may not be passive he ought be active because the most important
in learning language is able to communicate with another people. English an international language because many countries use English as their
second language and English is very important to be known. Nowadays, USA has become the center of civilization. They have succeeded to dominate politic, economy, culture, and
entertainment in the world. Crystal, 1997:71 Nowadays English has to be the most necessary language to be mastered. It is
reasonsble because the world communication and business are trough media of English, and in education, book, and article are available in English and sometimes we get the
difficulties to understand the meaning of the article that we read. In English, we know Nouns, Pronouns, Adjectives, Verbs, Adverbs, Prepositions, Conjunctions, Interjections,
Articles. Many of people or students feels very hard to makes it in sentences. For example: the use of an adverb in English: He wants to explain about a place, but the word
which is used to show the place does not agree with the rules of a structure in English. So, based on this situation the writer is interested to choose this topic because he wants to
explain about parts of speech especially adverbs.
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1.2 The Scope of Study
In this paper the writer try to limit the dicussion of the problem as specific as possible on the title, the scope of writing in this paper is about adverbs. As we know
commonly, parts of speech consists of: Nouns, Pronouns, Adverbs, Verbs, Prepositions, Conjunctions, Interjections, Articles.But this paper will only discuss about adverbs.
1.3 The Objective of Study