An Analysis of English Sentence Structures Used in Lead News in Thai Educational News in Online Bangkok Post
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The objectives of this study were to study and analyze English sentence structures and find out the frequencies of kinds of English sentences consisted of simple sentence, compound sentence, complex sentence, and compound complex sentence used in lead news in Thai educational news in online Bangkok Post during 1st August 2017- 31st August 2018. The samples used for this study were 202 pieces of lead news in Thai educational news in online Bangkok Post classified into 214 sentences. The instruments for this study consisted of pattern structures of simple sentence, compound sentence, complex sentence, and compound-complex sentence based on the theories and concepts given by the English Writing Contextual Book Unit 1-5 of Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University (2004:109) and Samran Khamying (2009: 409-435). The research statistics for data analysis was per-centage. The result of the study found that the most used English sentence structures in lead news in Thai educational news in online Bangkok Post were complex sentences, 151 sentences (70.56 %), followed by simple sentences, 45 sentences (23.36%), compound sentences, 11 sentences (5.14%), and compound-complex sentence, 7 sentences (3.27%), respectively.
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