The Analysis of Adjective Clauses Found in The Hillary Clinton’s Speech on 28th Of July 2016 at the Democratic Convention and Its Application to Teach Reading

Abstract

English Language is international language in this world. Many countries use and learn the language. Language works in some parts of our life as the media of communication. One of the use of language as media of communication is to deliver a speech. In delivering a speech, the speaker should use good sentences. One of the elements of a sentence is clauses. Adjective clause is one of the type of clauses. Adjective clause is a clause which functions as an adjective of a noun or a noun phrase as its antecedent modified by the relative clause and it is usually introduced by a relative pronoun such as who, which, that, whom, when, where, and whose. This study uses descriptive qualitative because the researcher would like to describe about the types of adjective clauses based on its functions and based on the structure of the main clause and the adjective relative clauses found in the Hillary Clinton’s speech on 28th of July 2016 at the democratic convention and its application in teaching reading. The researcher used documentation method to collect the data. The researcher did some steps such as watching, reading, finding, collecting data and coding the data. The result of this study shows that there are two types of adjective clauses based on its functions. They are 66 restrictive relative clauses (91.3%) and 6 nonrestrictive relative clauses (8.7%). Whereas, based on the structure of the main clauses and the relative clauses, there are five types of adjective clauses found. The types are Subject – subject (SS) relative clauses, Object – subject (OS) relative clauses, Subject – object relative clauses, Object – object (OO) relative clauses, and possessive relative clauses. The most dominant type is OS relative clauses 37 relative clauses (53.6%). After that, there are 18 OO relative clauses (26.1%), 10 SO relative clauses (14.5%), 3 SS relative clauses (4.3%), and 1 possessive relative clause (1.5%). The application of this analysis in teaching reading is to make students be able to understand a reading text more comprehensively. Since there are a lot of adjective clauses found in the speech, it can be used as examples in explaining about adjective clauses and comprehending reading text.