The use of English participles in the Jakarta Post

Palupi, Ruliana Tiyas (2005) The use of English participles in the Jakarta Post. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Katolik Widya Mandala Madiun.

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Abstract

The main problem in this research is the use of English participles in sentences, including their usages and characteristics. Participle is a word derived from a verb that undergoes the process of suffixation, so that its function changes.Participle is classified into two kinds: present and past participle. Past participle is a verb whose functions changes after the process of suffixation, that is, the addition of ending-ed. The past participle can function as adjective, noun, causative sentence former, passive sentence former, perfect tense former and a word replacing the subject + passive verb. Present participle is a verb ending in suffix -ing. The result of the suffixation process is the creation of a new word in other functions, such as adjective, adverb, progressive tense former, a word replacing a relative pronoun +verb, a word introducing a statement in indirect speech, a word following verb of perception,a word following catch/find/leave + object, a word following verb of physical activity and a word replacing the subject + verb in another main or subordinate clause. In this research, the researcher uses descriptive method because this method is regarded more suitable with the problems of the research.This method is used with some steps: collecting, classifying and analyzing the data. While, the data of this research are the two kinds of participles found in the English daily newspaper The Jakarta Post of March 8th-12th, 2004 especially in the column Headline. In doing the research, the researcher does not use any sample because all of the data, that is, 123 words in 70 sentences are still possible to be analyzed one by one. The result of the research is that some of the problems are not found in the data past participles, there is one problem that is not represented by the data,that is, the use of past participle as causative sentence former. Moreover, the percentage of the use of past participles is as follows: 29 (23,6%) past participles are used as adjective, 7 (5,7%) as noun, 32 (26%) as passive sentence former,19(15,4%) as perfect tense former and 2 (1,6%) replacing the subject + passive verb. The result of the analysis of the use of present participles shows that 3(2,4%) present participles are used as adjective, 9 (7,3%) as progressive tense former, 0 (0%) following have + object, 4 (3,3%) introducing the statement in indirect speech, 8 (6,5%) replacing the relative pronoun + verb, 0 (0%) present participle following verbs of perception, 0 (0%) following the verb catch/find/leave + object, 1 (0,8%) following verb of physical activity, 9 (7,3%)replacing the subject + verb in another main or subordinate clause and 0 (0%)used as adverb.

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