THE ANALYSIS OF ADJECTIVE PHRASE FOUND IN NARRATIVE TEXT IN ENGLISH TEXTBOOK ‘LOOK AHEAD 1: AN ENGLISH COURSE FOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS YEAR X’

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’.