Investigating the children story book title related to coronavirus or COVID-19 toward sentences structure and phrases choices

Abstract

This study is entitled "Investigating The Children Story Book Title related to Coronavirus toward Sentences Stucture and Phrases Choices". The data source used is taken from New York Book City School Library System. The objectives of this research are to (1) identify the sentence structure in children books’ title related to coronavirus or COVID-19 (2) identify the phrase types found in children boooks’ title related to coronavirus or COVID-19 . The method used in this research is a quantitative descriptive technique by classifying the title found in 143 books from interpreting the sentence structure and phrase type as the results. The theoretical basis of this research is the theory from Crystal (2003), Gelderen (2010), Gerot and Wignell (1994), Greenbaum and Nelson (2002), Halliday in Matthiessen (2004), Lynch-Brown (2005), Newsan and et al (2006) and Verspoor & Sauter (2002). The results of this study indicate that the highest number formed in sentences is declarative, and in phrases is noun phases, while not all the tile contains the word corona or covid. © 2021 Karadeniz Technical University. All rights reserved.