27 Knowing the nature of the articles is important in since one of the
attempts of the study is to know which articles appear the most in the English language newspapers. Looking at the nature of the indefinite article, the definite
article and also zero article, it is very possible that the definite article the will occur the most, due to its nature to identify entities and as a given information. It
will be proved through the analysis later.
b. The Demonstratives
The demonstratives are also one of the determiners. They belong to the identifiers. There are four demonstratives this, these, that and those. Those four
can refer to an object or objects, animate or inanimate. The differences between four of them are the plurality and the distance to the speaker. This and that are
used for singular object, whereas these and those are used for plural object. Furthermore, this and these are used when the object or objects are near to the
speaker. Meanwhile, that and those are used when the object or objects are farther away from the speaker. Close, 1971: 138
The interesting idea about this and that is noted by Yule 2004. According to Yule, indefinite demonstrative this seems to have developed in
contemporary English as an article to highlight a particular thing as the main focus of attention. It becomes an example of grammatical innovation that is
becoming extremely common in conversational English Yule, 2004: 43. Strauss 1993, in Yule 2004: 43 has done a research on the use of thisthese and
thatthose as determiners occurs 60 percent of the time. Strauss got the result after he conducted a study based on spoken data which used 37 different data sets and
28 over 40, 000 transcribed words. Knowing the status of demonstratives as one of
the determiners, the writer also will observe the number if their occurrences in the news articles.
c. Possessives
Possessives means own. It shows that a thing belongs to person or animal. It can take two forms. The first is the common possessives such as my,
your, his, her, our, their, its. The second is a noun with apostrophe s which can act as a premodifier or as an pro-form such as George’s camera, Taylor’s house
Close, 1971: 139.
d. Quantifiers
There are two kinds of quantifiers which Close explains related to determiners. The first is numeral, which can take either ordinal or cardinal
number. The second is indefinite quantifiers which take forms like many, much, few, little, a lot and many others.
Numeral may take two forms of number, cardinal and ordinal. The example of the numeral usage such as the first three boys, the first questions,
twelve bottles of milk, seven kilograms of rice. The first two sentences are ordinal numbers, while the last two examples are using cardinal numbers Close, 1971:
140. The examples of quantifiers which can be used as determiners are many,
much, a lot of, a little, a few and other quantifiers. These quantifiers can be used
29 with count plural nouns. Some of them can be used only with mass nouns and
some with either count or mass. Close, 1971: 140 Having known about kinds of determiners in English grammar is very
important because they have important role in constructing sentences. The different occurrences of determiners are easily observed in the written English,
especially the articles Yule, 2004: 29. Therefore, it becomes the main concern of this study. Later, the writer will attempt to seek the occurrences of these
determiners in the news articles. Finding the occurrences of the determiners will be very helpful to answer the first research question.
5. Ellipsis in Noun Phrase and Apposition Name Phrase
