CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Reasoning
As
a students who learn English, we often find difficulties in understanding sentences,
especially one which deals with tense. We know that there are many differences
between English Structure or Grammar.
Past
Continuous Tense is one of the tenses in English Grammar which is necessary to
learn because this “ing Verb form” is very complicated. It can be participle or
verb in continuous form or even a noun (Gerund). In this term paper, we try to
analyze the function of past continuous tense from the novel entitled The Devil on Lammas Night written by
Susan Howatch.
We can know more about tenses
especially past continuous. Besides that we can know the differences between
past continuous and gerund.
B. Background
Susan
Howatch is one of popular novelist in The United State. She was born in Connecticut. She written
several books since 1967.The Devil on
Lammas Night is one of her best known novels. Her big success as a novelist
began in 1970 and gas continued through the present.
The Devil on Lammas Night tells us the main character, Tristan Poole
to those who did not know him, she was merely a pleasant fellow, but to others,
especially to woman he was the Devil. Tristan was a tall man with a face people
found hard to remember because it was capable of so many different expressions.
He had dark eyes, deep set and brilliant. His hands were beautiful, his voice hypnotic.
Once a mounth, he and his society celebrated a great festival of Lammas, to worship,
to honor, and to obey lords of Darkness. For many years, he succeeded in Lammas
rites. However, his celebration ended when he tried to sacrifice Nicola, a
young beautiful girl whom he loved.
C. Problem :
For
most students who learn English as a foreign language, it is very difficult to
understand the English tense, because there is no tense in Indonesian while
English has sixteen tenses.
Past
continuous tense as a part of tenses is very functional in English. It is
widely used both in written and oral English.
They are the problem of past continuous
tense:
1. How do the writer find the
sentences are using past continuous?
2. How many categories are there?
3. What is the function of past continuous?
D. Research Objective
In composing the thesis, writer
specifically expose several research objective as bellow:
1. To find the sentences are using past continuous tense, the writer
reads a novel entitled the Devil on Lammas night.
2. After reading a novel and finding the sentences are using past continuous, the writer categorizes
them into 6 categories.
3. The function of past continuous are :
a. To express duration of an event at one point in the past
b. To express a past action in continuous which is suddenly or
unexpectedly interrupted by another past actions.
c. To express
two past that were in continuous simultaneously.
d. To express time indicating gradual development
e. To express time indicating descriptions.
f. To indicate indirect speech
E. Research Benefits
In this research the researcher wants
to described to the next researcher the function of past continuous. Besides
that from this research we can know the differences past continuous “ing” and
Gerund.
We
know that there are many differences between English structure and Indonesian
Structure. And past continuous tense is one of the tenses in English Grammar
which is necessary to learn.
F. These Organization
Systematically
the research is arrange as follow: Chapter 1 is Introduction. It consists of
reasoning, Background, Problem, Research objective, Research benefits, These
organization of thesis. Chapter II is Underlying Theory. It consists of tenses and
The function of past Continuous Tense. Chapter III is Research methodology, it
consists of, Type of research, the subject of research, the object of research,
the method of collecting data and the method of analyzing data. Chapter IV is
Data Analyzing. In it consists of, The Description of Data and the analyze Data.
Chapter V Conclusion and recommendation.
It consists of some conclusion and recommendation that relate to this research.
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