Supriyadi. 2018. A Syntactic Analysis on Sahih International and Abdullah
Yusuf Ali’s English Translation of Verses of Al-Qur’an
Related to Skills in Language by Using Tree Diagrams. Thesis,
English Department, Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teachers
Training. Advisor: (1) Dr. Saifuddin Ahmad Husin, M.A, (II)
Puji Sri Rahayu, M.A
In this research, the researcher analyzed syntactic patterns and differences
of syntactic patterns of some verses (ayah) in the English translation of verses of
Al-Qur’an related to skills in language, which have 38 ayah, using tree diagrams
theory to be able drawing and seeing hierarchical syntax structure of the verses.
The researcher used the English translation of the verses by Sahih International
and Abdullah Yusuf Ali since the translations are the best translation in English.
Therefore, the researcher has interest to study the thesis entitled A Syntactic
Analysis on Sahih International and Abdullah Yusuf Ali’s English Translation of
Verses of Al-Qur’an Related to Skills in Language by Using Tree Diagrams.
According to the problem statement, the research problem proposed are “What
syntactic patterns are found in the English translation of verses of Al Qur’an
related to skills in language translated by Sahih International and Abdullah Yusuf
Ali? and What are the differences of syntactic patterns found in the English
translation of verses of Al Qur’an related to skills in language translated by Sahih
International and Abdullah Yusuf Ali?”
This research is categorized as descriptive qualitative method because it
analyzes data descriptively related to the tree diagrams. Furthermore, the data in
this research tends to be on the forms of words than series of number.
After analyzing the data, the researcher finally found forty syntactic
patterns in the translations of verses of Al-Qur’an related to skills in language as
follows: there are five syntactic patterns of sentence, nine syntactic pattern of
noun phrase, thirteen syntactic patterns of verb phrase, one syntactic pattern of
adjective phrase, five syntactic patterns preposition phrase, and seven syntactic
patterns of complement phrase. Furthermore, the researcher found eleven
differences of syntactic patters from the thirty eight verses of Al-Qur’an related to
skills in language translated by Sahih International and Abdullah Yusuf Ali. They
are; the strategy of the translation, the forms of sentences, the forms of phrase, the
forms of word classes, the forms of tense, the styles of grammar, the positions of
the phrases, the selections of words, the additions of phrase, the additions of word
classes, and the number of word classes.