A STUDY OF PARTS OF SPEECH USED IN ONLINE STUDENT WEEKLY MAGAZINE

The purpose of this study was to analyze the frequency of parts of speech from online Student Weekly Magazine. The setting and material of the study were 30 education news articles in seven levels from the website http://www.studentweekly.com from the 1st of October 2015 to the 30th of November 2015. The study focused on parts of speech; noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, determiner and conjunction. The data collection and analysis used frequency and percentage. The research findings showed that there were 7,800 words to analyze for parts of speech from the 30 news articles. It found that of the 7,800 words there were 3,112 nouns 3,112 equaling (40%), 1,347 verbs equaling (17%), 1,028 prepositions equaling (13%), 829 determiners equaling (11%), 708 adjectives equaling (9%), 338 pronouns equaling (4%), 232 adverbs equaling (3%), and 206 conjunctions equaling (3%). In conclusion, education news in an online Student Weekly Magazine used more nouns than other part of speech with 40%, and the lowest percentage was conjunctions for only 3%.