Structural Decription of Bindu N. Lohani on The Jakarta Post Newspaper

ABSTRACT
In order to write this paper, the writer applied descriptive linguistics technique
with the required data which are taken from written text, that was found in the
newspaper of Jakarta Post which was published on Saturday March 14th, 2015. In
the paper the writing of Bindu N. Lohani the vice-president sustainable
development and knowledge management, Asian Development Bank. The whole
data will be given the descriptions dealing with the form of sentences used and so
the tenses he applied. The title of his writing is entitled Sendai Meeting is Key
Chance to Build Asia’s Disaster Resilience. So as the descriptions showing to the
writer of this paper that he uses two forms of sentences, they are affirmative and
negative out of thirty-three sentences. There are six different tenses he applied,
they are Present Tense, Present Perfect Tense, Present Continuous Tense, Future
Tense, Past Tense, dan Past Future Tense.

ABSTRAK
Kertas karya tulis ini membicarakan tentang pola-pola kalimat yang digunakan
oleh Bindu N. Lohani, the vice-president sustainable development and knowledge
management, Asian Development Bank beserta dengan tenses dalam bahasa
Inggris. Untuk mendeskripsikan tulisan tersebut penulis menggunakan teknik
linguistik deskriptif dengan menggunakan data dari bahan tertulis. Setelah seluruh
kalimat didiskripsikan maka dapatlah ditemukan bahwa Lohani hanya

menggunakan dua bentuk kalimat, yaitu kalimat berita dan kalimat menidakkan
dalam pola kalimat Subjek—Predicate—Complement. Tenses yang digunakan
ada sebanyak enam tenses, yaitu Present Tense, Present Perfect Tense, Present
Continuous Tense, Future Tense, Past Tense, dan Past Future Tense.