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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelNowdays, people need actual and complete information about their
surroundings; therefore, there are several ways to get the information. Newspaper
is one way to get information. In reading the newspaper, it is important to get
what the newspaper intended to say. Therefore, newspaper should present the
information clearly. In order to present the information or event, the reporters or
editors cannot put word in any position or with any word but in a systematic
pattern. Thus, the writer wants to know the kinds of clause pattern that are
frequently used in the headlines of The April?s Issue of The Jakarta Post. From
this study, the writer wants to know the types of clause pattern and the fillers of
clause constituent and also the frequency of each type of clause pattern and the
fillers of clause constituent, that are mostly used in the headlines of The April?s
Issue of The Jakarta Post. The writer analyses the data by using tagmemic analysis
in term of clause pattern. This study takes 50 front pages headlines of The April?s
Issue of The Jakarta Post from 1 April to 30 April 2003, which have single clause.
The writer chooses April?s Issue as the data because there are many interesting
news at that time to be discussed. The writer analyzes what clause patterns and its
constituents are used in the headlines of The April?s Issue of The Jakarta Post.
Then, the writer also analyzes the frequency of type of clause pattern and the filler
of clause constituent that are mostly used in the headlines of The April?s Issue of
The Jakarta Post. Through the analysis, she found that the pattern S - P - O was
the pattern that was mostly used in the headlines of The April?s Issue of The
Jakarta Post. While, noun mostly filled the filler class of subject; transitive verb
mostly filled the filler class of predicate; prepositional phrase of purpose mostly
filled the filler class of adverbial, noun phrase mostly filled the filler class of
object, prepositional phrase of place and adjective mostly filled the filler class of
subjective complement, and noun phrase mostly filled the filler class of objective
complement. From the findings, we can see the different linguistic choices, which
include the choice of words and expression in term of the slot-class and linguistic
structure (the clause pattern) of the headlines of The April?s Issue of The Jakarta
Post.