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12 the analysis on the post-noun modification occurred in the novels. Those analyses
were conducted by English Letter of Sanata Dharma University students. The first study was conducted by Siegfrieda Alberti Shinta Mursita Putri
2007. In her study, Prepositional Phrases and Relative Clauses as Noun Post- modifiers in Doyle’s Silver Blaze and The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire: Their
Patterns and Effects , she discovered there are 505 noun phrases with post-noun
modification. The modifications are categorized into two main types of post-noun modification, which are prepositional phrase and relative clause. She found that
the prepositional phrase as post-modifiers took 68.91 of the findings. Then, the relative clause as post-modifiers took 31.09 of the findings. Based on her
findings, she concluded that the modification of prepositional phrase and the finite relative clause are the dominant patterns occurring in those Doyle’s works.
The other study was conducted by Brahma Putra Pratama 2012. In his study, An Analysis of Noun Phrases with Prepositional Phrases and Relative
Clauses as Noun Post-Modifiers in Poe’s The Purloined Letter , he established 1
the patterns of post-noun modification employed in the Poe’s work “The Purloined Letter
”; and 2 the significant occurrence of the functions of the prepositional phrases and relative clauses in the pattern of action since the novel
dealt with the detective stories. Based on his analysis, he found that there are 325 noun phrases with post-noun modification. The distributions of the modifications
are classified into three types, namely prepositional phrase, relative clause, and both the embedding of prepositional phrase and relative clause. Of those noun
phrases found, there are 210 noun phrases post-modified by prepositional phrase,
13 94 noun phrases post-modified by relative clause, and 21 noun phrases post-
modified by both prepositional phrase and relative clause. Those three patterns are categorized based on the syntactically function. Here, he obtained that the noun
phrase post-modified by prepositional phrase functioning as adjuncts was the most frequent patterns occurring in Poe’s work. In addition, he concluded that the
prepositional phrase and relative clause as post-modifiers help the author fulfill the rules in writing the short detective stories which must avoid the overwriting.
This research is also conducted in order to establish the patterns of post- noun modification. However, it has different object analysis from those two
previous studies. When those two previous studies used classic novels, this research employs a formal speech as the object of the study. Through these
researches, the readers might compare the noun phrase modification used either in the verbal or non-verbal terms. By conducting this research, there are three main
patterns of post-noun modification classified. They are prepositional phrases PP, participial phrases Part.P, and relative clauses RC
. The detail explanations of those theories are to be presented in the review of related theories.