Majalah Ilmiah UNIKOM
Vol.9, No. 2
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H a l a m a n
THE USE OF ADJECTIVE CLAUSE IN ENGLISH SENTENCES
ASIH PRIHANDINI
Program Studi Sastra Inggris
Fakultas Sastra
Adjective clause is a dependent clause that functions like an adjective. Descriptive
method is used by describing adjective clause based on the functions, types, introduc-
tory words and form. The results of analysis show that the function of adjective clause in
this article mostly modify a noun; the type of adjective clause mostly are essential and
the most common introductory words of adjective clause are who, which, and that.
A.
Definition of Sentence
In grammar, students learn how to
construct sentence. A sentence is the
largest grammatical unit consisting of
phrases and / or clause, used to ex-
press a statement, question, command,
etc (Hornby, 1987 : 1071). According to
house and Harman in Husain, a sen-
tence is a group of words that states a
complete thought (Husain, 1993 : 94).
While according to Syah, a sentence is
a group of words which has minimally
one subject and one predicate and it
has a complete meaning (1977 : 91).
From some definitions above, we can
conclude that a sentence is a largest
grammatical unit consisting of phrases
and / or clauses used to express a
statement, question, command, etc
which has minimally one subject and
one predicate and state a complete
thought and meaning.
Basically there are three kinds of
sentence, those are simple, compound
and complex sentence. A simple sen-
tence is a sentence that only consists of
main clause without any subordinate
clause (Syah, 1997 : 93). A compound
sentence is a sentence that consists of
two or more main clauses without any
subordinate clause (Husain, 1993 :
102). Whereas a complex sentence is a
sentence that consists of an independ-
ent clause and one or more dependent
clause, the dependent clause can be
adverb, adjective or noun clause
(Farmer, 1985 : 341).
B.
Definition of Clause
A clause is component of a
(complex) sentence, with its own and
predicate, especially on doing the work
of a noun, adjective or adverb (Hornby,
1987 : 204). Another definition of clause
is a group of words which has its own
subject and predicate (Syah, 1977 : 88).
There are two basic types of clause,
those are :
1. Independent /principal /main clause
Main clause is a clause which con-
tains a complex idea and it can stand by
itself as a complete simple sentence
(Husain, 1977 : 88). While according to
Farmer, an independent clause is a
group of word containing a subject and a
predicate that can stand as a sentence
by itself, the clauses in color are inde-
pendent (1985 :324).
The moonis shining
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bidang
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