@thesis{thesis, author={Priadi Yoga}, title ={The use of English homonymous suffixes in Oracle magazine}, year={2006}, url={http://repository.widyamandala.ac.id/2951/}, abstract={There are 5 homonymous suffixes to discuss in this research. They are suffixes-ed,-en,-er,-ing, and -ly. Besides, it is also discussed about the meaning, the types, and the features which characterizethose homonymous suffixes. In this research, the researcher uses descriptive method because it is considered as the most appropriate method in relation with the problems of this research. This method uses some steps: collecting, classifying, and analyzing the data. Meanwhile, the data of this research is words which contain English homonymous suffixes found in Oracle magazine. In fact, the population of this research is only 100 data used in 74 sentences which is not too large in number to analyze. That is why, this study applies total sampling. It means that all of the data are analyzed one by one. The result of this research is that there is a problem which is not found in the dlata, namely suffix -er meaning gender. Moreover, the percentages on the using of those homonymous suffixes are as the following: suffix -ed 40 words (40%o), suffix -en 8 words (8%), suffix -er 8 words (8%), suffix-ing 34 words (34%), and suffix-ly 10 words (10%).} }