Compound Words Found on Articles in The Opinion Column of The Jakarta Post Newspaper Published in January 2021

Abstract

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. Relevant theories were referred to and discussed to achieve the objectives of the research. 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%.