A STUDY OF PARTS OF SPEECH USED IN SELECTED NEWS ONLINE: A CASE STUDY OF SELECTED NEWS FROM BANGKOK POST ONLINE
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https://doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v5.i3.2017.1769Keywords:
Parts of Speech, Part-of-Speech Tagger, Online NewsAbstract [English]
The purpose of this study was to analyze parts of speech used from selected news online entitled “Thailand's anti-smoking YouTube hit”. This study analyzed only words existed in selected news online from Bangkok Post, a Thai newspaper online. It focused on parts of speech used; noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, determination, conjunction and number. The researchers use only a website “parts-of-speech.info” to analyze and collect data. Selected news from Bangkok Post online entitled “Thailand's anti-smoking YouTube hit” was main material for this independent study. Parts-of-speech.info are a website used to collect and analyze data from the selected news. Parts-of-speech.info were used to analyze each sentence from the selected news. The results showed total of; adjective, adverb, conjunction, determiner, noun, number, preposition, pronoun and verb that existed in each sentence. The findings may be useful for English teachers who would like to teach all skills using online news as their teaching resources.
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