153 Okay, ladies and gentlemen, actually I have still more story but because the time and I hope that you ... enjoy my explanations ... F
68 154 And the distance from Hindus to Buddhist just about seven hundred
meters and it’s proved us because the temple it was built in the same
time during eight and nine century. I 14
Based on the data, the writer found that the respondents knew that they had to attach conjuction in their sentences when it was needed but they did not
have complete knowledge and further understanding about the meaning and the functions of each conjunction. This lack of knowledge lead to wrong usage of
conjunction. And as the result, several sentences had conjunction but contrary to expectation, the presence of those conjunctions lead to confusion and shifted the
meaning of the sentences. Respondent D in the sentence 152 put conjunction “because” in front of
the sentence although it was not required. The writer found that respondent D had in mind that when he combined one clause to the other, he had to attach a
conjunction, no matter where he put the coordinator and no matter a conjunction was required or not.
8. Misformation of Sentence Construction
While studying the language of the respondents, there was also other issue which was worth to be studied. It was the area of sentence construction. The
writer found that each respondent had their own ways and rules of forming sentences to enable them express their idea. Unfortunately, their own language to
express idea and meaning sometimes did not meet the syntax of English language and as the result, it lead to ungrammatical sentences and confusion to the listener.
Respondent A was one of the respondents who produced incorrect constructions. Below are the examples.
155 The relief we can found in the Brahma temple. A 60 156 Two hundred forty nine temples also aa... completely in ruins when
happens in the Central Java, earthquake in the sixteen century. A 97
157 And then in the sixteen century was happen the big earthquake and the ee... this place not safe, unsafe anymore to life, and they’re move
to East Java. A 101
The sentence pattern of sentence 155 is Object-Subject-Verb-Adverb of place. The second pattern was Object-Complement-Relative Adverb-Verb-Adverb
of place-Object-Adverb of time. And the last pattern of sentence 157 was Coordinator-Adverb
of time-Verb-Subject-Coordinator-Subject-Coordinator-
Subject-Verb. From the data, the writer concluded three ways of respondent A to form a
sentence. First, he put the object of a sentence before the subject and the noun “the relief we can found ...”. In fact, there was also other possibility concerning
this pattern, that the respondent wished to produced a passive sentence but he
failed, both in consctructing the sentence and also in forming the verb into the correct form of verb of passive voice. Second, the respondent put the verb before
its subject “... happens in the Central Java, earthquake...”. And the last one, the third, there was a tendency not to attach verb in a sentence. It could be seen from
the second sentence “Two hundred forty nine temples also aa... completely in ruins ...” and the third sentence “ ... this place not safe, unsafe ...”.
An interesting sentence construction was made by respondent D. He made not one, but several incorrect sentences with the same patterns.
158 Yoni is was as vagina symbolize. D 19
159 So, that’s a symbol that the sky and the earth as a father and mother
symbolize. D 80
This pattern could only be found in the transcription of respondent D. He put the verb at the end of the sentence. It was very interesting to know that the
only verb used in this pattern is “symbolize”. From the data, there were no other verbs treated this way. The writer found that the respondent wanted to say
“symbolization”, instead of “symbolize”. There were several reasons. First, the respondent used a preposition “as” most of the sentences. Second, the respondent
did not form the verb “symbolize” based on the rules of simple present tense in which he had to produce it with the addition of -s. Whether the subject was
singular “vagina” or plural “a father and mother” the word “symbolize” was still in the form of infinitive.
