This research aimed to describe how the students use verbs in their writing descriptive paragraph. The sample uses are the students of semester 1 class B with the total number of students are 21 students. The instrument uses in this research are test and interview. After analyzing, the results shown that in test 1 students score average are 84.2. in test 2 the average of students score is 88.47. in writing descriptive paragraph, the result shown that there are still some students made mistakes in using to be present and past, I joining to be and verbs, in diction, to infinitive, tenses and missing verb. Based on interview, shown that writing is a difficult subject for some the students. Also, They ignore about grammatical rule when they are writing.
Background: This research studies about profanity types made by professional players in the documentaries video True Sight by Valve on YouTube. Purpose: The aims of this study are to recognize the applications of each profanity types, to explain the types of profanity word the utterances that used, and to find out the most frequent types of profanity types of the utterances that used by the professional players in documentaries video True Sight on YouTube. Design and methods: To achieve the aims of the study, the writer uses Steven Pinker’s theory of profanity types to analyzing the data. This study is a qualitative which the writer interprets of utterances that contain the types of profanity words in this documentaries series. Results: The result of study showed that 30 utterances of profanity word were successfully identified that made by the professional players. In this study, the writer found that the professional player uses all the types of profanity, such as, abusive swearing, idiomatic swearing, dysphemistic swearing, cathartic swearing and emphatic swearing. There are 32 types that identified out of 30 utterances uttered by the professional player which conclude 9 emphatic swearing or 28.1%, 7 cathartic and idiomatic swearing or 21.9% , 5 abusive swearing or 15.6%, and 4 dysphemistic swearing or 12.5%. So it can be concluded that the dominant profanity types is emphatic swearing, because this documentaries video contained many profanities of the professional player as a gamer in the gaming community who has a culture of not to speak in a formal conversation.
This study aims to analyze the translation strategy of the Phrasal Verb in the novel The Devil All the Time. The theory used in this study is the kinds of phrasal verb from Wyatt and theory of Baker for the translation strategy. This study used qualitative descriptive method. The result of the study showed that: there are five phrasal verb found in this novel, namely, 15 intransitive phrasal verb(48,38%), 9 transitive phrasal verb where the object can come in one of two positions (29,03%), 2 transitive phrasal verbs where the object must come between the verb and the particle (6,45%), 3 transitive phrasal verbs where the object must come after the verb and the particle (9,67%), 2 transitive phrasal verbs with two object, one object is between verb and particle and the other one after the particle (6,45%);there are 4 types of translation strategies used by the translators of this novel, namely, data 9 translation by a more general word (29,03%), 14 translations by a more neutral/less expressive word (45,17%), 6 translations by paraphrase using a related word (19,35%), 2 translations by paraphrase using unrelated words (6,45%).
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