Background of the Study

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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of the Study

Language is very important for human beings because by using the language, one can interact and having communication. Language is primary an instrument of communication among human beings in a community. A community that speaks the same language is a speech community. By using language people can convey information, express their ideas,feel what they need and desire. Any human beings must deals with language on an activity he or she wants to take. Surely, we really want to know what a language is. Definition of language are not difficult to find. Let us look at some examples. Each of the following statements about language, wether it was intended as a definition or not, makes one or more points that we will take up later. The statement all come from classic works by well- known linguist.Taken together they will serve to give some preliminary indication of the properties that linguist at least tend to think of as being essential to language. Pei 1986:141 says that language is a system of communication by sound, operating through the organ of speech and hearing, among the members of a given community, and using vocal symbols possessing arbitrary conventional meanings. Sapir 1921:8 states that language is purely human and non- instinctive method communicating, ideas, emotions and desire by means of voluntarily produced symbols. ”This definition suffers from several defects. 2 In comunication people use language both in oral and written form. Many students are studying language in order to have good comunication. Particularly from English Departemen, we have tried to master English as fluently as possible. One way to master English is by studying grammar. Studying grammar make students know about structure of words and sentences because it has rule. Comprehension on parts of speech is a basic knowledge to English grammar proficiency. Words are the necessary tools to express an idea in speaking and writing. Therefore, learning a language, in this case English must started from the understanding of the function and the proper position of each word in constructing ideas to communicate in a sentence. English grammar recognizes ten parts of speech. Every English word, in a particular use, belongs to one of the parts of speech. Grouping is based on the function of a word when it is used to formulate a sentence. In studying English language we can more easy to understand by grouping them into parts of speech. Sihombing 2007: 2 says that ten parts of speech are : noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, conjunction, preposition, interjection, modal auxiliary, article. He says a conjunction is one of the parts of speech comprising words such as; and, but, because, that connect a word, a phrase, a clause, or a sentence to another word, phrase, clause, or sentence.means of voluntarily produced symbols.”this definition suffers from several defects. In communication people use conjunction as one of important part of speech. Most English language are related to conjunction. Conjunction are used both in spoken language and written language.In written languge, for example,the writer use conjunctionin expressing thought,feeling, emotion,thinks, ideas, or a certain purpose 3 to another people. The function of conjunction in communication is to tie or to combine the certain words to other words,or certain sentence to another sentences. So it will help readers understand the connection of the sentences or paragraph in a certain book or novel. The solid of the text can be achieved by using conjunction, it will make the readers easy to interpret the content through the relationship of each element of the sentences.

1.2 Problem of the Study