1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of Study
Subordination is a way of combining sentences that makes one sentence more important than the other. “Subordinators are perhaps the most important
formal device of subordination. Like propositions, which they resemble in having a relating connecting function,” Randolph. et. al. 1972:155. Collins 1995: 92
states “subordinate conjunction that joins a clause to another on which in depends for its full meaning. Subordinating conjunction is used when we are adding a
clause in order to develop some aspect of what we are saying”. A subordinator introduces a clause that depends on a main or an
independent clause, Frank. 1972: 115. The subordinator grammatically constitutes part of the dependent clause. And it usually more at the beginning of
the dependent clause usually followed by comma or an between the clauses connected.
Subordination in a sentence makes your main idea stand out. By putting the less important information in subordinate phrases the writer alerts the reader to
the main idea that is most important. Carrol 1982: 91 states “The method of subordination allows the speaker or writer to ‘express a larger variety of
relationships between ideas’ and ‘show the relationships between facts or ideas more clearly and specifically”.
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Sentences with subordinate phrases are more sophisticated than simple sentences, and they are referred to as complex sentence. Sophistication in writing
means being able to deal with complex thoughts or the interrelationships of things in one thought, that is why you need subordination. Subordination displays the
relationship between the ideas and details in a sentence. Good writing requires a mixture of all four kinds of sentences: simple,
compound, complex, and compound-complex. A composition with only short simple sentences is boring and ineffective same as writing that uses too many
compound sentences. Writing with complex sentences and participial phrases, structure that use subordination, is generally considered more mature, interesting,
and effective in style. The using of subordination in To Kill a Mockingbird novel is too many, so
that the paragraph looks boring and ineffective. That is why this topic is chosen. So subordination is a very significant topic as the application of the linguistic
aspect will imply the maturity and perfect mastery of the language. The other reason why this topic was chosen because I am interested in a paper entitled
“Subordination in The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie” written by T. Rika Zulaika. 2007
Relating to the descriptions above, Subordination in To Kill A Mockingbird is taken as the title for this paper in which the forms as and the
functions of subordination in To Kill a Mockingbird are the main problems to
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analyzed. The forms and the functions of subordination were found in To Kill a Mockingbird novel at random.
1.2 Scope of the Study