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Abstract
This research aims to describe the sentence structure through tree diagram and to
find the sentence structure appears in two Adele’s song, especially in writing
descriptive text. This research employs descriptive qualitative method. Two kinds
of data collection were used to collect the data, those are observation and
documentation. In observation researcher do something such as listening to the
songs “Someone Like You” and “Don’t You Remember” and listening to the songs
again focusing on the lyrics. In documentation, analyzing the lyrics from each song
and writing down all the lyrics of two songs to be analyzed use tree diagram.
Having analyzed the data, then, finally found sixty forms of the structure of the
two Adele’s songs. From the two of Adele’s songs used as the samples in this
thesis, gramatical sentence mostly appears rather than ungrammatical sentence.
Through the discussion, the researcher also found the substandard English words,
such as Ain’t, you’d, I’ll, you’re, didn’t, couldn’t, isn’t.
Keywords:
Syntax, Sentence Structure, Adele’s Songs.
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Andrew Radford, An Introduction Robert D. Borsley, Syntactic Theory
to English Sentence Structure (New York: A Unified Approach Second Edition, (London:
Cambridge University Press, 2004), 405. Arnold, 2003), 1.
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2) Abstract noun
b. Verb
Abstract noun refer to
ideas or qualities. Such as: A verb is used to show an
sad, happy, tired, hungry, action or a state of being. According
handsome, etc. to the object they are requiring,
verbs can be classified:
3) Pronoun
A pronoun is a word that 1) Transitive verbs, verbs which
replaces or stand for a noun. have direct objects (no
Examples: he, she, it. It can prepositions are needed to
be divided into six types. They connect verb and object); He
are: sees the house, we believe in
you.
a) Personal pronouns these
2) Intransitive verbs, verbs which do
show whether a person is
not have a direct object. There
represented is speaking,
are three types of verbs, namely:
being spoken to, or spoken
Regular verbs end in –ed or –d.
of; I, me, you, he, him, she,
3) Irregular verbs change forms,
her, it, we, us, they, them.
such as write- wrote.
b) Possessive pronouns these
4) Linking verbs express a state of
show possessive; mine,
being, such as shows and
yours, him, hers, its, ours,
appear.
theirs.
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c. Adjective e. Preposition
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a. Observation
The researcher observes
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only two songs. They are Donald Ary, Lucy Cheser Jacobs,
Asghar Razevieh, Introduction to Research in
someone like you and don’t you Education. BookFi.org., .530.
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