CORPUS ANALYSIS OF NOUN CLAUSE FOUND IN 15 CORONA VIRUS ARTICLES

Abstract

Language is a central aspect in society life. A sentence has one or more main clause. Clauses are groups of words that have a subject and a predicate. A noun clause is a clause that can be used in roughly the same way as a noun could be used. That is as a subject, object, indirect object, after a proposition, et cetera. A corpus is a collection of texts, written or spoken, usually stored in a computer database. One of the software that can help to develop corpus is AntConc software. Noun clauses may be classified according to the kinds of sentences from which they are derived -statements, questions, requests and exclamation. The method that used in this research was descriptive method and quantitative method. The data that used in this research used 15 article which talked about Corona virus. The articles came from different topic from the topic of health, economic analysis, school, until how corona pandemic in Indonesia. From 4 types of noun clause stated by Frank in this research, the research found 3 types of noun clause. From the first types of noun clause which noun clause from statement was found 27 data. From the second types of noun clause divided into two first noun clause from auxiliary verb question was found 4 data and second noun clause from question beginning with interrogative words was found 2 data. From the third types of noun clause, in this research found 2 data that categorized as noun clause from request.