The Analysis of Sentences Structure of Students Compositions at Grade VI of Elementary Schools in Bali Province

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10.2991/iclle-18.2018.13How to use a DOI?

Keywords

syntactic analysis; unity; structure; essay

Abstract

In conveying their ideas in writing, students often found some difficulties in composing sentences. The sentences composed, are not clear in terms of the structures, so that the ideas conveyed could not be understood well. Based on this situation, the main purpose of this study was to describe sentence structure used in the composition of grade VI students in Bali Province. The data were collected through document recording method of 120 compositions, each consisting of 3 paragraphs. The collected data were analyzed through Burton-Roberts analysis model. The results showed that there are 1.035 sentences. The structures of sentences, both simple or compounds contained in the essay of grade VI students in Bali province were quite varied. Based on the results obtained, it was suggested to the students to keep on paying attention on sentence structure in writing essay for the effectiveness of the ideas delivered.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Ida Bagus Putrayasa
AU  - Dewa Putu Ramendra
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TI  - The Analysis of Sentences Structure of Students Compositions at Grade VI of Elementary Schools in Bali Province
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PB  - Atlantis Press
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