An analysis of the use of gerund phrases in Time magazine

Prihastanto, Junaedi (2006) An analysis of the use of gerund phrases in Time magazine. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Katolik Widya Mandala Madiun.

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Abstract

The main problem in this research is the use of gerund phrases in sentences,including their functions, components and transformations. Gerund is a word derived from a verb that undergoes the suffixation process, so, the function changes.Gerund has characteristics to be used with other words to form a construction, called gerund phrase.The process to form gerund phrase from a sentence is called gerund transformation. Gerund phrase is composed of a gerund and the object of the gerund or any modifier related to the gerund. Gerund phrase may perform all the functions that nouns are capable of fulfilling. In nominal function, gerund phrase may act as subject of verb if it acts as the agent of the verb, or it is identified by complement, as object if it follows a verb or a preposition, as subjective complement when it completes predicate and refers to the subject, as appositive when it follows and further explains another noun phrase. This research belongs to library research, because the researcher uses magazine as source of data. The data of this research are taken from weekly magazine Time of June 2004 as the source of data. The researcher uses descriptive method to solve the problems, because this method is regarded more suitable with the problems of this research. This method is used with some steps: collecting, classifying and analyzing data. In this research, the researcher does not use any sample, because all of the data that is, 48 gerund phrases in 40 sentences are still possible to be analyzed. The result of the research is that one of the problems is not represented by the data,namely gerund phrase acts as appositive. Moreover, the percentage of the use of gerund phrases based on their functions are as follows: 32 (66%) gerund phrases act as object of prepositions, 8 (17%) gerund phrases act as object of verb, 7 (16%) gerund phrases act as subjective complement, 1 (1%) gerund phrases act as subjective complement, and 0(0%) gerund phrases act as appositive.

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