A Description of Complex Sentence With Adverbial Clauses Used in Elizabeth Gilbert’s Novel “Eat, Pray, Love”

Abstract

This paper dealed with complex sentences used in Elizabeth Gilbert’s novel “Eat, Pray, Love”. The objective was to find out the complex sentences with Adverbial Clauses and their types used in the novel. In order to get the needed result, the data were taken from the story of the novel. The data, then, were described based on its kinds and their types. From the description, it is found that the complex sentences with adverbial clauses in this novel had adverb adverbial clause of time (6 sentences) 28,5%, adverbial clause of cause (2 sentences) 9,5%, adverbial clause of condition (2 sentences) 9,5%, adverbial clause of manner (2 sentences) 9,5%, adverbial clause of concessive (2 sentences) 9,5%, adverbial clause of condition (1 sentence) 4,7%

Kertas karya ini membahas tentang kalimat komplek yang digunakan dalam novel Elizabeth Gilbert “ Eat, Pray, Love”. Tujuannya dalah untuk menemukan kalimat komplek dalam bentuk klausa adverbia dan jenis-jenis yang digunakan dalam novel tersebut. Kesimpulannya adalah daita novel tersebut. Data kemudian di deskripsikan berdasarkan jenis-jenisnya. Dari deskripsi tersebut ditemukan bahwa kalimat majemuk bertingkat dalam bentuk klausa adverbia waktu (6 kalimat) dengan 28,5%, klausa adverbia sebab (2 kalimat) 9,5%, klausa adverbia perbandingan (2 kalimat) 9,5%, klausa adverbia sikap (2 kalimat) 9,5%, klausa adverbia kondisi (1 kalimat) 4,7%.