COMPOUND WORDS FOUND ON ARTICLES IN THE OPINION COLUMN OF THE JAKARTA POST NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN JANUARY 2021

Aprilestari, Amelia Dwi. 2021. Compound Words Found on Articles in Opinion
Column of The Jakarta Post Newspaper Published in January 2021. Final project,
English Education Study Program, Faculty of Language and Arts Education,
Universitas PGRI Semarang. Advisor I: Dr. Jafar Sodiq, M.Pd., Advisor II: Siti
Nur‟aini, Ph.D.
Keywords: Compound Word, Type of Compound Word, Word Formation,
Newspaper.
This research studied the compound words found in the articles in the Opinion
column of The Jakarta Post Newspaper published in January 2021. The objectives
of this study were 1) to identify the compound words appeared on articles in The
Jakarta Post's opinion column, 2) to investigate the types of compound word used
on articles in The Jakarta Post's opinion column, and 3) to find out the most
dominant type of compound word found on articles in The Jakarta Post’s opinion
column.
To achieve the objectives of the research, relevant theories were referred to and
discussed. This study used the descriptive qualitative method. The researcher
collected all the data from the Opinion column of The Jakarta Post newspaper
published in 2021. The theory of McCarthy used to analyze and classify the data.
The results of the analysis showed that 1) compound words which were found
consisted of compound nouns, compound adjectives, and compound verbs, 2) the
types of compound words consisted of 142 compound nouns with the percentage
of 60%, 75 compound adjectives with the percentage of 32%, and 19 compound
verbs with the percentage of 8%, and 3) the most dominant type of compound
words was compound noun with 142 compound nouns with the percentage of
60%.