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Abstract:
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This study aimed to 1) survey the phrasal verbs occurrences from a movie script “Titanic” and 2)
analyze the structure of the phrasal verbs occurrences from the movie script “Titanic”. The research methods
were 1) studying the movie script online– Titanic (355 pages), 2) determining the data format, 3) classifying all
verbs into Form no. 1 Verbs from the movie script “Titanic”, 4) classifying phrasal verbs into Form no.2 Phrasal
verbs from the movie script “Titanic”, 5) analyzing the data with the phrasal verb structures and 6) concluding
summarizing and reporting the results. The results showed that 1) there were 470 heads of phrasal verbs in the
movie script “Titanic”. The most frequent verbs appeared in the movie were: Look, go, and come, (106, 65, and
61), while there were some verbs appearing only 1-3 times. For separable and inseparable phrasal verbs, there
were 42 separable phrasal verbs occurring; mostly were put on (22 times), put in (11 times). There were 69
inseparable phrasal verbs occurrences; most of them were come down (14), look out (12), and look up (11). 2)
For phrasal verbs classifications: they are- 1) VERB+PREPOSITION as in look after, 2) VERB+ADVERB as in
give up, and 3) VERB+ADVERB+PREPOSITION as in get down to. There are also phrasalverbs with variety of
prepositions: back down to, boil up around, bound over to, break out of, and burst out onto. Phrasalverbs with two
verbs as in get set up for the uplink, and phrasal verbs with pp-and-pp as in come up to look at. |