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CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS AND FINDING
4.1. Data Description
The data used in this thesis are all noun clauses taken from three selected info articles of Hello Magazine, those are Article 1 Prejudices and Stereotypes from Vol.
301 January 2011, Article 2 Learn More About OCD from Vol. 302 February 2011 and Article 3 Don’t Be Fat from Vol. 303 March 2011. I get 68 noun clauses of the
three selected info articles. I classify the 68 noun clauses into its type and function to make the analysis organized well. The following table will illustrate it.
Table 4.1.1 The Number of Type of Noun Clauses
Data Source Type of Noun Clauses
Articles Title of Article
Statement Question Request
Exclamation YesNo Interrogative
word Articles
1 Prejudices
and Stereotypes
20 -
- -
-
Articles 2
Learn More
About OCD
14 -
2 -
4
Articles 3
Don’t Be Fat
22 -
4 -
2 Total
56 -
6 -
6
The 68 noun clauses are divided into four types of noun clause; those are statement, questions yesno and interrogative words, request and exclamation.
There are 20 noun clauses from statements in Article 1 Prejudices and Stereotypes. It
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is also found that there are 14 noun clauses from statements, 2 noun clauses from question beginning with interrogative words and 4 noun clauses from exclamation in
Article 2 Learn More About OCD. Besides that, it is also found that there are 22 noun clauses from statements, 4 noun clauses from question beginning with
interrogative words and 2 noun clauses from exclamation in Article 3 Don’t Be Fat.
Table 4.1.2 The Number of Function of Noun Clauses
Data Source Function of Noun Clauses
Articles Title of
Article Subject Subjective
Comp. Object
of Verb Object
of Prep.
Appositive Subject after
“It” Articles
1 Pre-
judices and
Stereo- types
- 1
18 -
- 1
Articles 2
Learn More
About OCD
- -
19 1
- -
Articles 3
Don’t Be Fat
- 8
10 5
4 1
Total - 9 47
6 4 2
The 68 noun clauses then classified into its six function, those are as subject, subjective complement, object of verb, object of preposition, appositive and subject
after “It”. It can be seen that there is no noun clause found that functions as subject from the three selected info articles. It is found that there are 1 noun clause functions
as subjective complement, 18 noun clauses functions as object of verb and 1 noun clause functions as subject after “It” in Article 1 Prejudices and Stereotypes. It is
also found that there are 19 noun clauses functions as object of verb and 1 noun
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clause functions as object of preposition in Article 2 Learn More About OCD. Besides that, it is also found there are 8 noun clauses function as subjective
complement, 10 noun clauses functions as object of verb, 5 noun clauses function as object of preposition, 4 noun clauses function as appositive and 1 noun clause
functions as subject after “It” in Article 3 Don’t Be Fat. It is also can be seen that the noun clause function as the object of verb can be found in the three selected info
articles.
4.2. Elements of Noun Clauses