ADDITIVE CONJUNCTION CHOICE IN ENGLISH CHILDREN SHORT STORIES: A SYNTACTIC AND SEMANTIC ANALYSIS

The main problem that English as a foreign language (EFL) learners face in reading is to understand the text. To improve this situation, the present writer aims to investigate one of the linguistic devices that is, additive conjunction choice since it can help to understand a unity of the text. Furthermore, this study aims to (1) find kinds of additive conjunctions, (2) describe their semantic functions, and (3) describe the unit of additive conjunction that constructed in sentences in Four English Children Short stories which were written by Enid Blyton. A collection of four short stories was obtained from his works in order to be investigated in terms of Halliday and Hasan’s (1976) taxonomy of conjunction. In order to reach the goal, the present writer drawn implications for Syntactic and Semantics study which were offered by Morley (2000), Lyons (1977), Quirk et.al (1992) and Borsley (1992). In addition, the descriptive qualitative method was applied. The Result of this study showed that the simple additive relation was identified, namely; and (additive). Furthermore, the unit of additive conjunction which is constructed in the sentences was noun phrases, verb phrases, adjective phases and sentences. Finally, the results of this study are expected to gain understanding of texts.