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1.6 Review of Related Literature
In designing this thesis, I refer to some information supplied in some books to support the idea of the analysis. Some of them can be mentioned as
follow : Azar 1989:238 says that clause is a word containing a subject and a verb.
She divides clause into independent clause and dependent clause. According to her independent clause is a complete sentence and it contains the main subject and
verb of a sentence. She further says that independent clause can be called as main clause because it can stand-alone as a sentence or as a clause, while dependent
clause is not a complete sentence because it can stand-alone and it must be connected to an independent clause.
Frank 1979:276 states that in adjective clause, subject and predicate is changed by means of special introductory word which has the same referent as the
preceding noun or pronoun. The form and position of this introductory word subordinates the adjective clause to a main clause.
The definition above means that an adjective clause or relative clause is introduced by a special introductory word which fixed to preceding noun or
pronoun and it attached the adjective clause to a main clause. Leech 1983:285 says, “ The term relative clause is used for various types
of sub clause by a back-pointing element, usually a relative pronoun.” From this definition, we clearly understand that relative clause is
categorized as a dependent clause because it can not stand-alone or it must be attached to the main clause by relative pronoun.
Alfian Fajri. An analysis of relative clause in george bernard shaw’s play “arms and the man”. 2007 USU e-Repository©2009
Oshima and Hogue 1999 : 209 said that a relative clause is a dependent clause that functions as an adjective ; that is, it modifies a noun or pronoun. For
this reason, relative clauses are also called adjective clause. I also relate this thesis with the thesis of Delima 2003 “ an analysis of the
adjective clauses in the Mayor of Casterbridge. ”. this thesis conclude that adjective clause in Mayor of Casterbridge are expressed in three types; personal
adjective clause, impersonal adjective clause, and adjective clause using adverbial relative.
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2. A DESCRIPTION OF RELATIVE CLAUSE
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