Abstract:
Phrase is a group of words without subject and predicate to arrange a
sentence. There are many kinds of phrase such as, noun phrase, verb phrase,
adjective phrase, adverbial phrase, and prepositional phrase. Adjective phrase is a
phrase function as an adjective to modify noun or pronoun. There are many text
types using phrase as a part to form sentence and one of them is narrative text.
The researcher finds that these types of text are frequently used in English
textbook ‘Look Ahead 1: An English Course for Senior High School Students
Year X’.
The objectives of this study are to explain the structures and functions of
adjective phrase found in the textbook entitled ‘Look Ahead 1: An English Course
for Senior High School Students Year X’. Source of the data used in this study is
the narrative text in English Textbook Look Ahead for Senior High School
Students Year X. The data she used are the text of narrative in that textbook. The
researcher used a qualitative research to conduct this study and the researcher
herself as the key instrument. The researcher used descriptive qualitative research
to explain each structures and functions of adjective phrase.
The result of this study shows that there are 42 adjective phrases from 35
sentences found in the textbook entitled ‘Look Ahead 1: An English Course for
Senior High School Students Year X’. There are 3 functions and 8 structures, such
as pre-modifier (intensifier + adjective), post-modifier (prepositional phrase,
infinitive and participle phrase), subject-complement (intensifier + adjective,
intensifier + adjective + prepositional phrase, and adjective + prepositional
phrase). The dominant structures of adjective phrase found in narrative text in
English Textbook ‘Look Ahead 1: An English Course for Senior High School
Students Year X’ is prepositional phrase (50%). The dominant functions of
adjective phrase found in narrative text in English Textbook ‘Look Ahead 1: An
English Course for Senior High School Students Year X’ is post modifier
(76.2%). While, object complement was not found in six narrative texts in English
Textbook ‘Look Ahead 1: An English Course for Senior High School Students
Year X’.
