The Data of the Usage of English Pronouns in the Articles of the Jakarta Post Newspaper

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4. THE USAGE OF ENGLISH PRONOUNS IN THE ARTICLES OF THE JAKARTA POST NEWSPAPER

In completing this paper, I collect the data from the articles of The Jakarta Post Newspaper to support my paper or as the samples to make the discussion clearly and easy to understand.

4.1 The Data of the Usage of English Pronouns in the Articles of the Jakarta Post Newspaper

The articles are from The Jakarta Post Newspaper published on October 4, 2010; October 11, 2010; and October 20,2010 and the data is 705 sentences that use some kinds of pronouns found in the articles and consists of five articles which are chosen at random, the first article published on Monday, October 4, 2010 with the title of First lady’s music plans spark concerns, the second article published on Monday, October 4, 2010 with the title of Chinese leader promises support for euro and Greece , the third article published on Monday, October 11, 2010 with the title of Market offers used lingerie to branded clothing, the fourth article published on Monday, October 11, 2010 with the title of England enlists coaches to support 2018 W. Cup bid , and the fifth article published on Wednesday, October 20, 2010 with the title of Absent political reforms worry many foreigners, locals . The data are collected and list in the table 4.1 below according to the classification of the usage of pronouns from its kinds such as Personal Pronouns, Possessive Pronouns, Demonstrative Pronouns, Interrogative 34 Pronouns, Relative Pronouns, Indefinite Pronouns, Reflexive Pronouns, and Reciprocal Pronoun. Table 4.1: The identification of the total of kinds of English pronouns found in the articles of The Jakarta Post Newspaper Day, Date Title Kinds of Pronouns P I R D R R I P E N E E E E N O R T L M F C D S S E A O L I E S O R T N E P F E N R I S X R I S A O V T I O N S L G E R V C I I A A E A T V T T L E E I I V V E E Monday, October 4, 2010 First lady’s music plans spark concerns 14 - 4 2 - - 2 17 Monday, October 4, 2010 Chinese leader promises support for euro and Greece 15 - 5 - - - - 12 Monday, October 11, 2010 Market offers used lingerie to branded clothing 20 - 3 - - - 1 3 Monday, October 11, 2010 England enlists coaches to support 2018 W, cup bid 7 - 2 4 - - 3 9 Monday, October 20, 2010 Absent political reforms worry many foreigners, locals 10 - 6 - - - - 9 Total 66 - 20 6 - - 6 50 The total number of pronouns is 148. 35

4.2 The Analysis of the Usage of Pronouns in the Articles of the Jakarta Post Newspaper