The Analysis of Prepositional Phrases Found in Song Lyrics of Fool’s Garden’s Album Dish of the Day and Its Application in Teaching Writing Recount Text

Abstract

This study uses descriptive qualitative because the researcher would like to
describe about the structures and the function of prepositional phrases found in the
song lyrics of Fool’s Garden’s Album Dish of the Day and its application in teaching
writing recount text. The researcher used documentation method to collect the data.
The researcher did some steps such as listening, searching, reading, finding, collecting
data and coding the data.
The result of this study shows that there are three structures of prepositional
phrases. They are 96 Preposition + Noun / Noun Phrase (95. 5%), 4 Preposition + Noun
Clause (3. 9 %), and 1 Preposition + ing Phrase (0. 9 %). Whereas, based on the
functions, there are three functions of prepositional phrases. They are 17 post-modifier
of a noun (20.4%), 5 post-modifier of an adjective (6.0%), and 61 adverbial (73.4 %). In
addition, the prepositional phrases found in Song Lyrics of Fool’s Garden’s Album Dish of
the Day can be applied in teaching writing at the tenth grade students of Senior High
School particularly in recount text.