Abstract :
The research attemptsto analyze the rank scale of the declarative
sentences in a short story. The thesis entitled ?An Analysis of Rank Scale Used
in the Declarative Sentences found in ?The Ghost? Short Story: Syntactical
Perspectives??has aresearch questions. It is What syntactical patterns are used in
the declarative sentences of ?The GhostShort story??
An article written by William D. O?Connorwas downloaded from
www.gutenberg.org . It was analyzedused rank scaletheory proposed by Aarts
(1997).
The goals of this study are to find out types of rank scale and to explain
the declarative sentence found in The Ghost short story using bracketing system to
analyzeit. To reach the goals the writer used a descriptive qualitative research as
the method of data analysis in this thesis, because the data are descriptively
analyzed. The writer used library and documentation study because it is very
useful to obtain the data accurately. From the theory there are four levelsin the
rank scale formation, (1) The Word- level, (2) The Phrase- level, (3) The Clause-level and (4) The sentence- level.
From the analysis, the writer found 53declarative sentences ruled applied
in The Ghostshort story. The data would be explained theoretically and process of
Rank Scale would be described by means of bracketing
The sentence structure rules found in The Ghost short story such asin
sentence ?He reach the door? isS? NP. VP, NP is constructed from Pronoun
(He). VP is constructed from Verb(reach) and PP (reach the door). PP is
constructed from Preposition(the) and Noun (door).