A Syntactical Analysis of Noun Clauses in the Script of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Film

Syntax is the relationship of words in the sentence and the relationship between sentence and sentence structure. The correlation between the word and another word will form phrase, clause, and sentence. One of kinds of clauses, especially noun clauses can found in film script or screenplay. This research is aimed at knowing (i) the classifications of noun clauses used in the script of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, (ii) syntactical rules of noun clauses used in the script of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. This is a qualitative descriptive research. The writer took film script of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as data source to be analyzed and got some noun clauses in it. The data were collected by searching noun clauses in the script of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo film uses Teknik Simak Bebas Libat Cakap (Uninvolved Conversation Observation Technique) which combined with Teknik Catat (Taking Note Technique) to get authentic data sources. The result of the analysis of classifications of noun clauses in the script of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo film shows that there are 25 that clauses, 3 if clauses, and 22 question clauses. Almost noun clauses used in the script of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo film are that clauses. Meanwhile, there are three syntactical rules of noun clauses which found by the writer. The first, syntactical rule of that clause is: that + Sentence (NP + VP); the second, syntactical rule of if clauses is: if + Sentence (NP + VP); and the last, syntactical rule of question clauses is: NPϱ (WH-Questions) + Sentence (NP + VP). Due to the fact that syntax is a point that is discussed in the grammar, the writer suggest to the students of English Education Department should learn more about the classifications and syntactical rules of noun clauses in many source to get many information or knowledge about it. The English teacher should teach the classifications and syntactical rules of noun clauses. So, the students will not only know classifications of noun clauses but also they will know the rules of each classification of noun clauses because every kind of noun clauses has different rule in it.