Corpus Linguistics Research: Analyse the Use of Article in Novel “The Body in The Library” by Agatha Christie
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The study aims to analyse the article in "The Body in The Library" written by Agatha Christie. "The Body in The Library" is a fiction crime about an old amateur detective, Miss Marple, even though she just an old ordinary single woman who lives alone in a rural area but have a great instinct to solve the mystery. An article used to define a definite or an indefinite noun also a countable and uncountable noun. It used to know references of the noun before in the story in a novel. The method used in this research is a descriptive qualitative method that includes the stages of data collection, analysing the data and then making a conclusion about it. The analysis "The Body in The Library" written by Agatha Christie used article the, a and an. The article function in "The Body in The Library" novel by Agatha Christie refers to define and indefinite noun.
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