THE MULTI-WORD VERBS IN THE NOVEL A STUDY IN SCARLET BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
(Fina Ayu Khoirunisyah, 25 pages, 2016)
The main purpose of this final report is to analyze the categories of multi-word verbs in the novel A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle. The title of this study is “The Multi-word Verbs in the Novel A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle”. The writer wants to know more about multi-word verbs categories that are used in the novel and percentage of each categories of multi-word verbs. The writer used documentation as the way to collect the data. Then, the data were analyzed by doing some steps, namely 1) Reading the novel, 2) Jotting down all multi-word verbs found in the novel, 3) Classifying each multi-word verbs into three types based on the theory mentioned by Quirk (1895:1161). They are Phrasal verbs, Prepotisional verbs and phrasal-prepositional verbs and put them on a table, 4) Finding the meaning each multi-word verbs found in the novel, 5) Next, the writer makes a percentage for each classification of multi-word verbs using the formula on Thomas (2002:5) and put them into table. The result shows that phrasal verb is the common used in the novel a study in scarlet