AN ANALYSIS OF PREPOSITION PHRASE FOUND IN THE SOCIAL ECONOMIC ARTICLES OF THE JAKARTA POST

AN ANALYSIS OF PREPOSITION PHRASE FOUND
IN THE SOCIAL ECONOMIC ARTICLES
OF THE JAKARTA POST

By
BAGAS LOKANOV TEJA
NIM 200932190

ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTEMENT
TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION FACULTY
MURIA KUDUS UNIVERSITY
2015

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AN ANALYSIS OF PREPOSITION PHRASE FOUND
IN THE SOCIAL ECONOMIC ARTICLES
OF THE JAKARTA POST


SKRIPSI
Presented to the University of Muria Kudus
in Partial Fulfillment of Requirements for Completing the Sarjana Progam
in English Education

By
BAGAS LOKANOV TEJA
NIM 200932190

ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTEMENT
TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION FACULTY

MURIA KUDUS UNIVERSITY
2015

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MOTTO AND DEDICATION

Motto:



“Better a patient man that a warrior, a man who controls his
temper than one who takes the city” Proverbs 16:32



“If helplessness is our system, we were better off upside down” by
As i Lay Dying



“Never give in never back down” by Black Veil Brides
Dedication:
This skripsi is dedicated to:
 His Lord, Jesus Christ
 His beloved parents (Mr. Cornelius
Sutedjo and Mrs. Lidia Mulyani)
 His beloved one Octavia Silvy Indiana
 His bestfriends “kopingism” (Arfanny,

Adhitya, Syolikhul, Handi, Arif, Agung,
Nova), and “ Ngisor Sawo Custom”
 His friends in UMK KUDUS who can’t
be mentioned one by one.
 Anybody who support him.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
First of all, the writer would like to praise and thank to Jesus Christ for
throughout his life, who has given blessing and strength to finish this thesis
entitled “An analysis of prepositional phrase found in the social economic articles
of the Jakarta Post”
The writer would like to express his deepest gratitude to those who are
directly or indirectly involved in completing this skripsi, they are:
1. Dr. Slamet Utomo, M. Pd, the Dean of Teacher Training and Education

Faculty of Muria Kudus University and also as second advisor.
2. Diah Kurniati, S. Pd, M. Pd, the Head of English Education Department.
3. Titis Sulistyowati, S.Pd, M.Pd as the first advisor, who have accurately
guided his during the writing of skripsi.
4. All lecturers of English Education Department of Teacher Training and
Education Faculty of Muria Kudus University for valuable knowledge,
guidance, and advices during the years of his study.
5. The writer’s beloved parents, big thanks for their loves and supports in
finishing his skripsi.
6. The writer’s speacial one, thanks for gives unlimited support, from the
beginning until the end.
7. The writer bestfriends “kopingism” (Arfanny, Adhitya, Syolikhul, Handi, Arif,
Agung, Nova), and “ Ngisor Sawo Custom” we have an amazing story to
remember for life.
8. All his friends in Muria Kudus University.
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The writer would like to express his sincerest gratitude to the readers for
some critics and suggestions. Hopefully this skripsi will be useful for everyone.


Kudus, 1st June 2015

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ABSTRACT
Teja, Bagas Lokanov. 2015. The analysis of English Prepositional Phrase Found
in the Social economic Articles of the Jakarta Post. Skripsi. English
Education Department, Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Muria
Kudus University. Advisors: (1) Titis Sulistyowati, S.Pd, M.Pd (2) Dr.
Slamet Utomo, M.Pd.
Key words: Prepositional phrase, social economic articles
Phrases are the basic patterns to build sentence. There are several types
of phrase and each type has an important point to build a sentence. One of them is
prepositional phrase. Prepositional phrase is a group of related words that begin
with preposition and end with the object of a preposition. Although it is very
simple phrase, the learners still have difficulties to learn this phrase.
The objectives of the research are to find out the types, to find out the
elements and to describe the function of prepositional phrase found in the Social

Economic articles of the Jakarta Post.
In this research, the writer used descriptive qualitative research. The data
of the research was prepositional phrases in the social economics articles and the
data source of the research was the Social Economic articles of the Jakarta Post.
The result of this research shows that from 13 types of prepositional
phrases the writer only found 12 types in the social economic articles, they are
possession or origin (103), place-position-direction (77), time (36), purpose (33),
manner (15) accompaniment (10), source (10), addition (9), comparison (8),
agency (4), cause or reason (3), condition (2), instrument (0). Beside that, the
writer concluded that there are two word class of prepositional phrase. There are
the main (prepostion and pronoun or noun) and the optional word class of
prepositional phrase (determiner, adjective, adverb and conjuction). Then, the
functions of prepositional phrase found in the social economic articles of the
Jakarta post are adjectival function (206), adverbial function (72) and nominal
function (32).
Thus, the writer suggests for the students, especially, the students of
English Education Department of Muria Kudus University who has lack in the
prepositional phrases to improve their ability. One of the ways is by reading this
research. For the next researcher, they can use article as a media to analysis
prepositional phrase. They also must look for an article that there are many

prepositional phrases. So, they can develop their knowledge about prepositional
phrase. For the teacher, they can use the article as the media to teach their
students, especially in teaching prepositional phrase. Beside that, the teacher

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should pay attention when they teach about functions of prepositional phrases
because there is a little difference between the nominal function and adverbial
function.

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ABSTRAK
Teja, Bagas Lokanov. 2015. Analisis Preposisional Frase pada Artikel Sosial
Ekonomi pada Jakarta Post. Skripsi. Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris Fakultas
Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan Universitas Muria Kudus. Pembimbing:
(1)
Kata Kunci: Preposisional frase, artikel sosial ekonomi
Frase merupakan pola dasar dalam membentuk suatu kalimat. Ada
bermacam-macam frase di dalam kalimat dan setiap frase memiliki peran penting.

Salah satu frase tersebut adalah preposisional frase. Prepositional frase adalah
gabungan kata yang dimulai dengan preposisi dan diakhiri dengan objek dari
preposisi tersebut. Meskipun frase ini terbilang sangat sederhana, namun masih
banyak pelajar yang mengalami kesulitan dalam mempelajarinya.
Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mencari tahu tipe-tipe, element
serta untuk mendiskripsikan fungsi dari preposisional frase yang ada dalam artikel
sosial ekonomi pada Jakarta Post.
Dalam penelitian ini, penulis menggunakan penelitian deskriptif
kualitatif. Data dari penelitian ini dalam bentuk preposisional frase pada artikel
sosial ekonomi dan sumber data penelitian adalah teks artikel sosial ekonomi pada
Jakarta Post.
Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa dari 13 tipe preposisional frase,
penulis hanya menemukan 12 tipe pada artikel sosial ekonomi, yaitu: possession
or origin (103), place-position-direction (77), time (36), purpose (33), manner (15)
accompaniment (10), source (10), addition (9), comparison (8), agency (4), cause
or reason (3), condition (2), instrument (0). Selain itu, penulis juga menyimpulkan
bahwa ada dua komponen dalam prepositional frase. Pertama, komponen inti yang
terdiri dari preposisi dan kata ganti atau kata benda. Kedua, komponen pilihan
yang meliputi determiner, kata sifat, kata keterangan dan kata sambung.
Kemudian, penulis juga menemukan ketiga fungsi preposisi dalam penelitian ini,

yaitu adjectival fungsi (206), adverbial fungsi(72) and nominal fungsi (32).
Oleh karena itu, penulis menyarankan kepada pelajar, khususnya
mahasiswa Fakultas Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris Universitas Muria Kudus yang
mempunyai kelemahan dalam preposisional frase untuk meningkatkan
kemampuannya, salah satu caranya yaitu dengan membaca hasil penelitian ini.
Kepada si peneliti selanjutnya untuk menggunakan artikel sebagai media untuk
menganalis preposisional frase. Namun, mereka juga harus mencari artikel yang
banyak terdapat preposisional frasenya. Dengan begitu si peneliti dapat
mengembangkan pengetahuan mereka tentang prepositional frase. Selain itu,
kepada para guru, mereka juga dapat menggunakan artikel sebagai media
pembelajaran, khusunya pelajaran menulis preposisional frase. Kemudian, para

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guru juga harus lebih berhati-hati dalam mengajarkan fungsi preposisional frase
karena sedikit perbedaan antara nominal fungsi dan adverbial fungsi.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS


COVER…................................................................................................
LOGO……..............................................................................................
TITLE…..................................................................................................
MOTTO AND DEDICATION…..........................................................
ADVISORS’ APPROVAL….................................................................
EXAMINERS’ APPROVAL….............................................................
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT…................................................................
ABSTRACT…........................................................................................
ABSTRAKS…........................................................................................
TABLE OF CONTENTS…...................................................................
LIST OF TABLES…..............................................................................
LIST OF APPENDIC….........................................................................

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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Research….............................................................

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1.2 Statements of the Problem…................................................................

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1.3 Objectives of the Research…...............................................................

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1.4 Significances of the Research…...........................................................

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1.5 Scope of the Research….......................................................................

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1.6 Operational Definition…......................................................................

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REVIEW

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RELATED

LITERATURE

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HYPOTHESIS
2.1 Syntax………......................................................................................

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2.2 Phrase...................................................................................................

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2.2.1 Type of Phrase...................................................................................

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2.3. English for Prepositional Phrase..........................................................

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2.3.1 Types of Prepositional Phrase............................................................

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2.3.2 Word Classes of Preposition Phrase….............................................

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2.3.3 Function of Prepositional Phrase......................................................

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2.3.4 Pattern of Prepositional Phrase............….........................................

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2.4 Social Economic Articles.....................................................................

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2.5 History Of the Jakarta Post..................................................................

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2.6 Review to The Previous Research.......................................................

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2.7 Theoretical Framework........................................................................

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CHAPTER III METHOD OF THE RESEARCH
3.1 Design of the Research….....................................................................

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3.2 Data and Data Sources…......................................................................

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3.3 Data Collecting.....................................................................................

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3.4 Data Analysis…....................................................................................

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CHAPTER IV FINDING OF THE RESEARCH
4.1 Types of Prepositional Phrase Found in the Social Economic

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Articles of the Jakarta Post…………………………………………..
4.1.1 Types of Prepositional Phrase Found in the First Social Economic

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Articles of the Jakarta Post entitled The Social Agenda in 2014, in
Monday, January 06 2014…………………………………………...
4.1.2 Types of Prepositional Phrase Found in the Second Social

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Economic Articles of the Jakarta Post entitled Economic interests of
investors in RI : Convergence and divergence, Tuesday, January 28
2014………………………………………………………………….
4.1.3 Types of Prepositional Phrase Found in the Third Social Economic
Articles of the Jakarta Post entitled Blue economy for marine

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resource development, Thursday, March 20 2014…………….......
4.2 The Word Class of Prepositional Phrase in the Social Economic
Articles of the Jakarta Post……………………………….………..

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4.2.1 Word Class of Prepositional Phrase Found in the First Social
Economic Articles of the Jakarta Post entitled The Social Agenda

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in 2014, in Monday, January 06 2014 …………………………….
4.2.1 Word Class of Prepositional Phrase Found in the Second Social
Economic Articles of the Jakarta Post entitled Economic interests 145
of investors in RI : Convergence and divergence, Tuesday,
January 28 2014……………………………………………………
4.2.3 Word Class of Prepositional Phrase Found in the Third Social 159
Economic Articles of the Jakarta Post entitled Blue economy for
marine resource development, Thursday, March 20 2014………...
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Functions of Prepositional Phrase Found in the Social Economic
Articles of the Jakarta Post………………………………………...

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Functions of Prepositional Phrase Found in the First Social
Economic Articles of the Jakarta Post entitled Social Agenda in

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2014, in Monday, January 06 2014………………………………..
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Functions of Prepositional Phrase Found in the Second Social
Economic Articles Economic interests of investors in RI : 196
Convergence and divergence, Tuesday, January 28 2014………..

4.3.3

Functions of Prepositional Phrase Found in the Third Social
Economic

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Blue

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marine

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development, Thursday, March 20 2014…………………………..

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CHAPTER V DISCUSSION
5.1 The Types of Prepositional Phrase Found in the Social Economic

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Articles of the Jakarta Post…………………………………………..
5.2 The Word Class of Prepositional Phrase Found in the Social

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Economic Articles of the Jakarta Post……………………………….
5.3 The Functions of Prepositional Phrase Found in the Social Economic 242
Articles of the Jakarta Post…………………………………………..

CHAPTER VI CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
6.1 Conclusion…........................................................................................

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6.2 Suggestion...........................................................................................

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BIBLIOGRAPHY…..................................................................................
APPENDIXS…..........................................................................................
STATEMENT.............................................................................................
CURRICULUM VITAE…........................................................................

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LIST OF TABLES

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3.1 The example of analyzing type Prepositional Phrase Found in the

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Social Economic Articles……………………………………………….
3.2 The Example of analyzing Prepositional Phrase Functions Found
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in the Entertainment Articles……………………………………………
4.1.1 Types of Prepositional Phrase Found in the First Social
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Economic Articles of the Jakarta Post entitled The Social Agenda in
2014, in Monday, January 06 2014……………………....……………..
4.1.2 Types of Prepositional Phrase Found in the Second Social
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Economic Articles of the Jakarta Post entitled Economic interests of
investors in RI : Convergence and divergence Tuesday, January 28
2014…………………………………………………………………….
4.1.3 Types of Prepositional Phrase Found in the Third Social

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Economic Articles of the Jakarta Post entitled Blue economy for
marine resource development, Thursday, March 20 2014……………..
4.3.1 Functions of Prepositional Phrase Found in the First Social
Economic Articles of the Jakarta Post entitled Social Agenda in 2014,
in Monday, January 06 2014……………………...…………………….

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4.3.2 Functions of Prepositional Phrase Found in the Second Social

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Economic Articles Economic interests of investors in RI: Convergence
and divergence, Tuesday, January 28 2014…………………………...
4.3.3 Functions of Prepositional Phrase Found in the Third Social
Economic Articles Blue economy for marine resource development,
Thursday, March 20 2014…………………………...............................

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LIST OF APPENDIX

Appendix

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1. Articles of the Jakarta Post “The social agenda in 2014, in Monday, 250
January 06 2014”, “Blue economy for marine resource development,
Tuesday, January 28 2014”, “Economic interests of investors in RI:
Convergence and divergence, Thursday, March 20 2014 “...………...

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