Simple Sentence Structure on The Fault in Our Stars Novel by John Green: A Syntactical Analysis

Abstract

The study aimed at analyzing types of simple sentence patterns and the constituent structure of simple sentence structures discovered in the novel entitled The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. Data Source of this study is The Fault in Our Stars novel, it was written by John Green and published on January 10,2012. The collected data in this study were analyzed by using some following theories related to the syntactic field. First, the types of simple sentences are categorized through the theory proposed by Greenbaum and Nelson (2002). Second, constituent structure of the sentence was discussed by Brown and Miller (1991). In addition, the sentence structure was constructed into a tree diagram based on Fabb’s theory (1994). The method of data collection in this study was library research. Then, data analysis were two steps, namely Categorizing all selected data by using Greenbaum and Nelson’s theory (2002) to categorize the types of simple sentence pattern, and analyzing the constituent structure of simple sentence found in the novel entitled The Fault in Our Stars by using tree diagram based on Brown and Miller (1991) and combined with Fabb’s theory (1994). This study used formal and informal method by Sudaryanto (1993) in presenting the result. The formal method involved presenting the data in a table, while informal method means using ordinary words to explain the result of the study.