Syntactic Analysis of Noun Phrases in Analytical Exposition Text “How Does Education Important to Children?”

Abstract

Language is a bridge over the science of communication that can produce relationships to transfer messages. We can learn it how to use language through Analytical Exposition Text. Analytical Exposition Text is a sort of analytical text that investigates the meaning of literature from the perspective of the researcher. This text describes the phenomena that exist in the form of strong opinions. The researcher analyzed the noun which is one of the parts that are most often found in the parts of speech. Noun analyses uses syntax where nouns must be related to other words and are called noun phrases. The researchers chose an Analytical Exposition Text with the entitle “How Does Education Important to Children” as the data document analysis. This study used descriptive qualitative method. In Analytical Exposition Text, noun phrases are found in all paragraphs in the text. The domination of using NP was seen in the syntactic forms, they were NP = Det + N. The rest was NP = Det + Adj + N, NP = Adj + N, NP = DP + N’, NP = N’ + N’, and NP = N(Num). It could be concluded that the using of NP (Det + N) in was dominated in all sentences in this text of Analytical Exposition Text.