Drawing conclusions of the study
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Table 4.1 . The Proportion of the Patterns of the Noun Phrase with Post-Noun
Modification.
No. Patterns Number of
Occurrence Percentage 1.
NP + Prepositional Phrase 180
72.87
A. NP + Prepositional Phrase 103
41.70 B.
NP + Prepositional Phrase modified by relative clause
4 1.62
C. NP + Prepositional Phrase modified by
relative clause with NP + Prepositional Phrase in it
D. NP + Prepositional Phrase more than one
60 24.29 E.
NP + Prepositional Phrase modified by Participial Phrase
13 5.26
2. NP + Relative Clause
31 12.56
A. NP + Relative Clause 18
7.29 B.
NP + Relative Clause with NP + Prepositional Phrase in it
10 4.05
C. NP + Relative clause with another NP +
relative clause in it
D. NP + Relative Clause modified by
Participial Phrase 3
1.21
3. NP + Participial Phrase
36 14.57
A. NP + Participial Phrase 24
9.72 B.
NP + Participial Phrase with NP + Prepositional Phrase in it
12 4.86
C. NP + Participial Phrase + Relative Clause +
Prepositional Phrase
D. NP + Participial Phrase modified by
Relative Clause
Total 247 100
Of those three main patterns of post-noun modification shown in table 4.1, the most frequent pattern to occur in three speech transcripts delivered by Marty
53 Natalegawa is the pattern of noun phrase post-modified by prepositional phrase.
From the findings, the researcher could find 180 noun phrases which have this pattern. Through this large proportion, the pattern of this noun phrase can be
interpreted as the most common patterns occurring in the transcripts instead of those two post-noun modifications. Similarly, Leech Svartvik delineate
prepositional phrase as the common type of post-modifier in English 1994, p.345.
Besides, participial phrase is the second frequent pattern to occur as post- modifier in the transcripts. It has 36 noun phrases which have this pattern. Based
Kolln Funk, the syntactic structures of participial phrase is usually after the prepositional phrase 2012, p.143. It can come after the noun phrase which post-
modified by prepositional phrase; or typically come after the headword. Literally, as a post-modifier, the participial phrase is known as a reduced relative clause
since it has similar form to relative clause. Moreover, either participial phrase or relative clause also share to function as phrase marker in which provides the
additional information about the headword modified. Furthermore, relative clause is the less common pattern to occur in the
transcripts. According to the findings, there are 31 noun phrases which have this pattern. As noted in chapter II, relative clause has a close embryo form as well as
a sentence with a subject and a predicate. The disparity between those two is the use of relative pronoun. The relative pronoun which, whose, that is a marker of
relative clause in which is functioned to mark the headword of the noun phrase in which it modified.