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CHAPTER III METHOD OF RESEARCH
3.1 The Source of Data
The main source of the data is Sheldon’s If Tomorrow Comes. The secondary sources of the data are some books from other discipline of knowledge that are
related to the topic of the analysis. The data that are taken from the main resource are the intransitive sentence in the novel. While the data that are taken from the
secondary source are the theories which are going to be used in analyze the topic discussion of this thesis.
3.2 The Data Colleting Procedure
The data colleting procedure is begun by reading the novel Sydney Sheldon’s If Tomorrow Comes.
While reading the novel, the writer marks the sentences which are interpreted as intransitive sentences. Then, the writer writes down, on a note
book, all the intransitive sentence which have been marked before. After all the data from the novel have been collected, the writer continues to select the data. The next
collecting data is done by reading several books which are related to the topic discussion. The, the writer collects all the data or theories to be selected.
3.3 The Data Selecting Procedure
Not all the data, which have been collected before, will be used in the analysis. Therefore, the writer selects some data which really relate to the topic
discussion or which are strongly used in the analysis. The data taken from the novel contain the intransitive verbs, while the data that we take from other books relate to
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the theory of intransitive sentence structure. This step is done in order to choose the most appropriate data which are going to be analyze.
3.4 The Data Analyzing Procedure
. After all the data have been selected, the writer commits the next step as to
analyze the data. This step is done by relating the data from the novel and theories from other book. This step is clearly described in chapter four, data analysis. This
step is very important due to answer the three statements of problem in the previous chapter. The procedure is done by analyzing the intransitive sentence one by one,
then the data will be analyzed by some theories.
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CHAPTER IV DATA, DATA ANALYSIS AND FINDINGS