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that … to occupied the place of the object of the preposition arts in sentence b. We can also see that the preposition to was put at the end of
the relative clause. Therefore the function of that … to here was as the
preposition relative. In other words, it seems as if the object of the preposition arts in sentence b was lost after being combined by the relative pronoun, but actually
the object was there, but replaced by the relative pronoun that … to. Therefore,
the relative pronoun that … to was considered as the object of the preposition
within the relative clause.
4. Relative Pronouns Function as Possessive in Relative Clauses
Close 1975 mentions in this research that the possessive relatives consist of two relative pronouns namely whose and of which. Close 1975 adds that the
relative pronoun whose will refer to personal and non-personal antecedents in defining and non-defining while the relative pronoun of which refers to non-
personal antecedents in both kinds of the relative clauses. After analyzing the collected data, I found 16 sentences using those possessive relatives, which were
divided into 9 sentences using relative pronouns whose and 7 sentences using relative pronouns of which, within the relative clauses. The points below are the
explanation for each of the relative pronoun based on the findings.
a Whose
As stated earlier, in this research, I collected 9 relative pronouns whose which occupied the possessive’s position within the relative clauses Appendix
17, page 233. The table below shows how whose functions as the relative possessive within the relative clause.
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Table 4.16: Relative Pronoun whose Functions as the Possessive
No. Relative clause
Antecedent Kinds of the
Relative Clause
Relative pronoun’s
Function
24 “Perhaps soap making is
rather complicated for them as it requires accuracy; any
slight mistake will end in
failure,” said Vero, whose small groups enable her to
give participants personal attention.
Vero Non-defining
Possessive
Example 24 above was produced by combining two sentences with the help of a relative pronoun whose
. The sentences were: a “Perhaps soap making is rather complicated for them as it requires accuracy; any slight mistake will end
in failure,” said Vero and b Vero’s small groups enable her to give participants personal attention. From the example we can see that relative pronoun, whose,
took the place of the possessive pronoun Vero’s in sentence b. Therefore, the
relative pronoun whose here functioned as the possessive relative in the relative
clause, whose small groups enable her to give participants personal attention. b
Of which
Related to the relative pronoun of which, there were 7 relative clauses in the collected data using this relative pronoun Appendix 18, page 235. The table
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Table 4.17: Relative Pronoun of which Functions as the Possessive No.
Relative clause Antecedent
Kinds of the Relative
Clause Relative
pronoun’s Function
25 Three days ahead of the
opening, artists
were preparing their installations
inside the
spacious
warehouse, the front wall of which is painted in hot
pink. Warehouse
Non-defining Possessive
In Table 4.17, we can see that the relative pronoun of which combined the sentences: a three days ahead of the opening, artists were preparing their
installations inside the spacious warehouse and b The spacious warehouse’s
front wall is painted in hot pink into one complex sentence. Now, it is obviously seen that the relative pronoun of which occupied the position of the possessive
pronoun the spacious warehouse’s its in sentence b. Therefore, it’s obvious
that the relative pronoun of which functioned as the possessive in the relative clause construction.
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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
This chapter consists of two parts, namely conclusions and recommendations. I conclude the major findings in the first part while in the
second part I provide the recommendations for English learners, English teachers, future researchers, and the journalists.
A. Conclusions
In this section, I will divide the conclusions into three parts, namely differentiating the defining and non-
defining relative clauses, relative clauses’ syntactic functions in the features columns in the JP, and
relative pronouns’ syntactic functions in the features columns in the JP.
1 Differentiating the Defining and Non-defining Relative Clauses
In order to answer the first research problem, I collected all relative clauses and categorized them into defining and non-defining relative clauses. In
this research, I found that to differentiate between the defining and non-defining relative clauses in the features columns in the JP, the readers could employ the
defining and non-defining criteria from Yule 2004, as stated in chapter four of this research on page 49 and page 52. After analyzing the findings, I also found
179 defining relative clauses and 111 non-defining relative clauses. All relative clauses were appropriate to the defining and non-defining criteria which I
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