Grammatical Cohesion of Conjunctions in Short Story Collection Kompas March 2014 Edition

Abstract

Writing short stories is very concerned about the relevance of the content so that the stories made can be understood and liked by the reader. This will be seen in the relationship between lines, sentences, and paragraphs which can be realized in one form of cohesion. The linkage of content in the short story is the basis of the researchers to conduct research on the grammatical cohesion of conjunctions. This study aims to describe grammatical cohesion of conjunctions in short stories collection Kompas March 2014 edition. This research method uses descriptive methods. The results of this study were found to be coordinative conjunctions, subordinative conjunctions, correlative conjunctions, intersentences conjunctions, and between paragraphs conjunctions. However, from these findings, there were several improper conjunctions, namely intersentences conjunctions, and between paragraphs conjunctions.