Annas Adjie PUTRA Pengarang Dr. Bahrani, M.Pd Dosen Pembimbing 1 Dini Irawati, M.Pd. Dosen Pembimbing 2 Rostanti Toba, M.Pd. Ketua Penguji Dr. Bahrani, M.Pd Penguji 1 Dini Irawati, M.Pd. Penguji 2

Annas Adjie Putra, 2021. An Analysis Of Morphology and Syntax in Edgar Allan Poe’s Short Story Entitled “The Tell-Tale Heart”. Thesis, English Education Department, Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Stated Islamic University of Sultan Aji Muhammad Idris Samarinda. Advisor: (1) Mr. Dr. Bahrani, M. Pd. (2) Mrs. Dini Irawati M. Pd. Morphology and Syntax are two important branches of Linguistic that focus on analyzing the structure of language. Morphology and Syntax have their own urgency which makes them very important to learn. Morphology and syntax can increase students‟ communication skills both in reading and language because this is closely related to grammar and part of speech. The 1843 work entitled The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe was chosen to be the data and source of data because this work is included in the category of works that are in great demand in Indonesia. This objectives of the research are: (1) to describe what are types of morpheme, and (2) to describe what are type of sentence used in Edgar Allan Poe‟s Short Story entitled The Tell-Tale Heart. Descriptive qualitative method, which according to Denscombe is one of the research about analyzing the word used as the design for this research. According to Lincoln and Guba, qualitative research should have two instruments, primary and secondary. The primary instrument in this study belongs to researcher himself while the secondary instrument was the data sheet, the text of the short story, the oxford dictionary, and also some previous studies that related. Then to collect the data, the researcher used the visual analysis technique which the researcher observed the morphosyntactic aspect through the subject of the research. The subject of the research for this study was the 17 paragraphs and 120 sentences of The Tell-Tale Heart short story. The results of this research show positive things that can answer the 2 research problems that have been mentioned. Firstly, the types of morphemes used included lexical nouns (48), lexical verbs (50), lexical adjectives (34), lexical prepositions (17), lexical adverbs (27), functions (12), suffixes –ful (3), suffixes –ness (2), suffixes –ly or –y (14), suffix –fully (1), numbers (16), possessives (1), past forms (31), plural nouns (2), comparatives (6), and gerunds (14). Secondly, the types of sentences used included simple sentences (17), compound sentences (5), complex sentences (2) and compound-complex sentence (1).