If Conditional Sentence In Western Song

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ABSTRACT Solin, Syafiq Anshori. Reg: 062222810017. The Use of If Conditional Sentence in the Structure of English Song. A Thesis, English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Medan. 2009 The Objective of the study is to find out the types of if conditional sentences used in English song, the purpose and the role of if conditional sentences in the structure of the songs. The study was conducted under descriptive qualitative method. The data were collected by identifying clauses of the 10 songs which consist of If Conditional Sentences. The data were analyzed by describing the purpose of using if conditional sentences in the songs. The finding shows that there are four purposes of using conditional sentence in the song which are 1) to request, 2) to promise, 3) to express expectation and 4) to express supposition. Other finding shows that there are 3 roles of If Conditional Sentence in the Structure of English Songs. They are: a) as the verse which means to introduce the message, b) as the chorus which means to discuss the main message, and c) as the bridge which means to bridge the message from the verse to the chorus. CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1.1. Background of the Study In Indonesia, many institutions of Teacher Training and Education are now developing competence-based curricula which are suited to the needs of the institutions. These institutionbased curricula are locally called “Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan” and abbreviated as the KTSP. These curricula are aimed at equipping graduates with sufficient knowledge, skills in listening, speaking, reading, writing, and life skills, so that they can become competent English teachers (Agustien, 2007). The achievement of the aim of KTSP has been endorsed by the Indonesian Government‟s Decree No. 19/2005 (Depdiknas, 2005) which states that students graduating from English
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