An Analysis of Prepositional Phrase Used in Thesis at Graduate Program of Universitas Negeri Padang

The principal purpose of this article was to present the types of prepositional phrase structure are mostly found on students' Thesis in Graduate Program at Universitas Negeri Padang. The method used in this research was descriptive. The source of the data for this research was the review of related literature of thesis written by English Education students. The researcher used sampling technique, the researcher was taken 10 Thesis as a sample in this research. The data were collected through coding sheet. The findings indicate that (1) the writers have used prepositional phrase in Thesis writing, (2) the writers have used several structure of prepositional phrases, however in the thesis writing, they still tend to use one of the prepositional phrase' structure, meanwhile there are other types of prepositional phrase structure.