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The writer chooses the novel named Another Piece of My Heart because it contains a lot of adjective clauses. The writer wants to know what the dominant
of adjective clause found in the novel is.
1.2 Problem of the Study
The problem of this study can be defined as below: 1
How many adjective clauses found in the novel? 2
What is the dominant adjective clause found in the novel?
1.3 Scope of the Study
In English, there are many kinds of clauses, such as noun clause, adverbial clause and adjective clause. In this study, the writer limits the analysis on
adjective clauses.
1.4 Purpose of the Study
The purpose of the study can be defined as below: 1.
To find out the adjective clauses in the novel. 2.
To find out the number of the dominant adjective clauses in the novel.
1.5 Method of the Study
The writer uses library research in writing this paper. Library research is the technique of data collection by research to gather as much information
relevant to the topic. Source can be gotten from literature: scientific books, journals, and other sources of suitable like internet.
The writer will collect all the required data from Jane Green’s novel entitled Another Piece of My Heart. The data is sentences that contain adjective
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clauses. There are about 413 adjective clauses found in the novel as the data source.
The writer uses analysis method in analyzing the data. Analysis method of research is where the person doing the research presents it in an analysis
manner. The analysis research designs enable researchers to analyze or present the picture of a phenomenon or phenomena under investigation.
The steps or procedures in analyzing the data : 1.
Reading Another Piece of My Heart novel. 2.
Identifying the sentences contain adjective clause. 3.
Classifying the adjective clauses. 4.
Analyzing the data by counting the number of adjective clauses and the dominant adjective clause into percentages of their usage in the novel.
To get the percentage of adjective clauses used in the novel, the writer uses the Nawawi’s formula 1991:150 as the following:
X = Number of adjective clauses Y = Total number of all data
N = Percentage of the adjective clauses
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X
100 = N
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2. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
