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The aims of this research are English to describe the dominant words which
collocate with prepositions at, for, in and on, to describe the types of grammatical
collocations in English, to describe the most frequent combinations of grammatical
collocation, to describe the meaning of grammatical collocations in English. The source
of the data is Oxford collocation dictionary, Agatha Christies novel The Man in the
Brown Suit and internet provider. This research uses descriptive qualitative method.
The results show that there are 4 main categories and 6 sub-categories. The
categories are; 1) noun + preposition (countable noun + preposition and uncountable
noun + preposition), 2) preposition + noun (preposition + abstract noun and preposition +
concrete noun), 3) adjective + noun (descriptive adjective + preposition and derivational
adjective + preposition) and 4) verb + preposition. The most frequent combination of
English grammatical collocation is preposition + noun (G4) with 67 (33, 5%) of the
whole data, meanwhile, 62 (31 %) data is in the pattern of noun + preposition (G1) then,
adjective+ preposition (G5) with 51 (25,5%) and the last is verb + preposition (G8) with
20 data (10%) data. All of the collocations in this research have grammatical meaning.
Chapter I
Introduction
1
1.2
Chapter IV
Result of the Research
4.1
Introduction
verb+prep
10%
adj+prep
25,5%
noun+prep
31%
prep+noun
33,5%
noun+prep
prep+noun
adj+prep
verb+prep
Data
62
27
35
67
26
41
51
26
25
20
200
Percentage
31%
13,5%
17,5%
33,5%
13%
20,5%
25,5%
13%
12,5%
10%
100%
4.2
Happiness
Frustration
Fury
Preposition for
Fervour
for
Hunger
~
Headache
Hate
Compassion
Preposition in
Conservatism in
Growth
~
Interest
comfort
Preposition on
Guidance
on
Hold
~
Knock
Slander
Slant
4.3
Preposition + Noun (G4)
The total data of preposition + noun (G4) is 67 (33,5%), with the types of noun as
follows;
4.3.1
peace
guess
liberty
infinity
Preposition for
For
fear
~
pleasure
fun
flavour
ease
Preposition in
In love
~ public
democracy
depression
danger
Preposition on
On mind
~ throne
4.3.2 Preposition + concrete noun
Preposition at
at Academy
~ playgroup
school
embassy
funeral
Preposition for
For
fee
~
homework
hire
money
Preposition in
In
handcuffs
~
handwriting
luggage
magazine
diary
Preposition on
On
television
~
internet
agenda
a ship
Adjective + Preposition (G5)
The total data of Adjective + Preposition (G5) is 51 (25,5%), with the types of
adjective as follows;
4.4.1 Descriptive adjective + preposition
Preposition at
Good
at
Mad
~
Strong
Quick
Weak
Preposition for
Fit
for
Fine
~
Important
Glad
Popular
Preposition in
Top
in
Alike
~
Narrow
Correct
Bilingual
Preposition on
Up to-date on
Gentle
~
Tough
Feed on
Insist
Impose
Chapter V
Conclusions and Suggestions
5.1
Conclusion
The research problems are: What dominant words collocate with prepositions at,
for, in and on?, what types of grammatical collocations are in English?, what
combinations are the most frequent in grammatical collocation?, what is the meaning of
grammatical collocation in English?. The subjects of the analysis are grammatical
collocation of prepositions at, for, in, and on. The data are taken from Oxford collocation
dictionary, Agatha Christies novel The Man in the Brown Suit and the internet
provider.
The findings of the skripsi are as follows: after finding 200 data, the data are
classified into four main categories; firstly noun + preposition (G1) with its subcategories there are countable noun + preposition and uncountable noun + preposition.
Secondly, preposition + noun (G4) with its sub-categories there are preposition +
abstract noun and preposition + concrete noun. Thirdly, adjective + noun (G5) with its
sub-categories there are descriptive adjective + preposition and derivational adjective +
preposition. And the last is verb + preposition (G8). The most frequent combination is
Preposition + noun (G4) with 67 (33,5%) of the whole data, meanwhile, 62 (31 %) data
is in the pattern of noun + preposition (G1), then adjective + preposition (G5) with
51(25,5%), and the last is verb + preposition (G8) with 20 (10%). The collocation which
is discussed in this research has grammatical meaning.
The writer realized this skripsi has its weaknesses, such as this research does not
discuss the entire pattern in grammatical collocation like adjective + that-clause,
adjective + to-infinitives, noun + to-infinitive, noun + that-clause, etc. this research
focused on prepositions at, for, in, and on only, and not included other common
prepositions like by, from, before, off, as etc.
5.2
Suggestion
The writer would like to suggest the next researcher to analyze common
preposition such as at, for, in, and on only. She wishes the next writer wants to make
research about prepositional collocation in other kinds of common preposition such as by,
as, of, off, before, etc. Secondly, this research not discussed another pattern of
grammatical collocation such as adjective + that-clause, adjective + to-infinitives, noun
+ to-infinitive, noun + that-clause, etc
For students of Gunadarma University especially from Faculty of Letters, this
research may be used as a primary step to apply the theories of grammatical collocation
in order to make our speech and writing much more natural and more native like.
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