“VIDEO GAMES ... ARE GOOD FOR YOU?” BY GABRIEL J. ADAMS

Understanding the text is one of the objectives of English study. Before understanding the complex sentence the basic skill that student need to master is to understand the phrases of each sentence. This article objectives are to give more understanding about noun phrases in magazine article to help student easy to understand the basic of English especially phrase. The reason writer choose noun phrase is the most commonly used phrase in the sentence is the noun phrase and the writer want to make the reader familiar with noun phrase. This article will analyze the magazine article with 22 sentences and also contains 66 noun phrases in it. Which the writer will determine the modifier every noun phrase in it. Therefore, mastering phrases is a key to become a fluent speaker of English.


INTRODUCTION
Magazine articles nowadays are mass media that milenials are interested in. One from many reasons is because it is easy to acquired and commonly gives the reader some hot news that currently happens in society. There are many types of magazine article based on the category that the article discusses. There is healthcare, technology, culinary, education, entertainment etc. the article magazines nowadays usually aren't in printed version, but also in electronic version.
Reading is a complex process that involves generation and getting information, analyzing meaning, and making any decision about content (Parmawati & Yugafiati, 2017). Reading article activities will be less when readers do not understand the language used. Readers will have some difficulties to understand what the writer expressed in the message. Because of that readers should learn not only their national language but also the international language. The currently international language is English, which many countries used this language as their second language, but in Indonesia it is consider as the foreign language. English become more important in globalization era. It has been believed as one of the crucial aspects that are needed in providing a quality of human resources. Many books about education and other specific major are now written in this language. Therefore, it has been an important aspect especially in education. And one factor to become fluent in speaking English is understanding the concept of phrases because it is the small part of English and become a basic study to understand English.
In this article, the writer objective is to analyze the magazine article titled video games … are god for you? By Gabriel J. Adams with noun phrase. The reason writer chose noun phrase to analyze the magazine article because the noun phrase is phrase that usually people used in their sentence. the writer also wanted to know how many noun phrases are there in the article.

Noun Phrases
According to Crystal (1992) in (Sharhan, 2018) a phrase is an element of structure typically containing more than one word, but lacking the subject-predicate structure usually found in a clause. Which means phrase is a combination of words. in addition is a combination of words which has no subject (Rini, 2019). The function of a phrase depends upon its construction that place in a sentence. depending to its function in a sentence phrases are form in several types: noun phrase, verb phrase, adjective phrase, adverb phrase, gerund phrase, infinitive phrase, and absolute phrase. (a) The noun phrase contains a noun and other associated words (usually determiners & modifiers) which modify the noun. (b) The prepositional phrase comprising a preposition and object preposition. (c) Adjective phrase acts like an adjective in a sentence. (d) Adverb phrase acts like an adverb in a sentence. (e) Verb phrase is the group of main verbs and auxiliaries in a sentence. (f) Infinitive phrase contains an infinitive (to plus base form of verb). It acts like a noun, adjective or adverb in a sentence. (g) gerund phrase is Verb + ing, modifiers and other word related to gerund, it acts like noun in sentence. (h) particle phrase is group of present-participle (v + ing) or past-particle verb. And (i) absolute phrase it contains of a noun or pronoun, a particle and modifiers.

METHOD
This research used qualitative descriptive method as the research methodology. The data would be presented descriptively and the result was in explanation of words form which would be following by data presented in form of tables. Related previous statement (Nurmalasari & Apsari, 2019) stated that qualitative descriptive method are the least "theoritical" of all of the qualitative approaches to research. In addition, qualitative descriptive studies are the least encumbered studies, compared to other qualitative approaches, by a pre-existing theoritical or philosophical commitment.. It also supported by Sugiono (2013) that also states that qualitative is a natural object focused method. That was the main instrument of this research, the result focused on the meaning specifically rather than generalization.
The data of this research are several sentence that contain noun phrases from the magazine article titled "video games … are god for you?" By Gabriel J. Adams. The steps of data analysis in this research conduct codding, and explaining the each noun phrases. The step can be seen as follow: 1. Codding of sentences that related noun phrases.
Firstly, the writer gave a mark with bolding the noun phrases from each sentence that contain noun phrases in the magazine article titled "video games … are god for you?" By Gabriel J. Adams. 2. Explaining the noun phrases of each Sentences that contain noun phrases Last step, the writer explained each noun phrases from sentence that contain noun phrases in the magazine article titled "video games … are god for you?" By Gabriel J. Adams.

Results
After analyzing the magazine article titled "video games … are god for you?" By Gabriel J. Adams., the writer found 22 sentences that contains noun phrases . The data is in form of Your is pronoun (modifier), brain is noun

Discussion
From the table above, the analysis result shows us in every single sentence in the magazine article titled "video games … are god for you?" By Gabriel J. Adams are contain the noun phrases. The result also shows us that from 22 sentences there are 66 noun phrases, which means the mean of it is same like in every single sentence on the article contain 3 noun phrases. It also shows us that in 66 noun phrases there are 23 adjectives modifiers, 3 adverbs modifiers, 3 numbers modifier, 23 determiners modifiers, 9 prepositions modifiers, 21 pronouns modifiers.

CONCLUSION
After the writer analyzed the data from the magazine article titled "video games … are god for you?" By Gabriel J. Adams. There are some conclusions which decided the writer from the research, they are: 1) Noun phrase is any phrase which modifies adjective, adverb, numbers, determiner, preposition, and pronoun. 2) The writer found the 66 noun phrases in 22 sentences, which means the mean is 3) From all of the sentences in the articles, most of the noun phrases in the articles use the determiners and adjective modifiers which appear 23 each.