The Background of Study The Scope of Study

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 The Background of Study

Language is very important for human being. It is used as tool of communication and interaction by members of society one to another, such as getting and giving information, expressing their ideas and doing other activities. Learning a language means learning how to communicate in that language to convey information to someone, message to somebody else from either speaker or writer to listeners or readers. So, if someone wants to study a language, he may not be passive but he ought to be active because the most important in learning language is able to communicate with another people. English is an International language because many countries use English as their second language and English is very important to be known. Nowadays, USA has become the center of civilization. They have succeeded to dominate politic, economy, culture, and entertainment in the worlds. It makes English socialized and spread out all over the world. Crystal, 1997:71. Nowadays English has to be the most necessary language to be mastered. It is reasonable because the world communication and business are through media of English, and in education, book, and article are available in English and sometimes we get the difficulties to understand the meaning of the article that we read. Another difficulty that sometimes we faced is how to apply a good structure in sentence. For example: the use of tenses in English. .He wants to tell about the story in the past, but the verb which is used Universitas Sumatera Utara to show the situation in the present. So, based on this situation the writer is interested to choose this topic because she want to explain about tenses especially future tense.

1.2 The Scope of Study

In this paper, the writer try to limit the discussion of the problem as specific as possible on the title, the scope of writing in this paper is about future tense. As we know commonly, tenses consist of present tense, past tense ands future tense. But, this paper will only discuss about tense especially about future tense

1.3 The Objective of Study