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This study deals with the verb-particle combination in the novel the Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. The objectives of this research are to find out the verb-particle combination and to identify the most dominant particle used with the verb in the novel the Da Vinci Code. The source of data is from novel the Da Vinci Code written by Dan Brown. The technique used in this research is descriptive qualitative. It is found that there are 135 verb particle combinations in the novel the Da Vinci Code and there are 1(0.74%) particle along, 3(2.22%) particle around/About, 5(3.70%) particle away, 5(3.70%) particle back, 21(15.5%) particle down, 10(7.40%) particle in, 14(10.37%) particle off, 11(8.14%) particle on, 27(20%) particle out, 14(10.37%) particle over, and 24(17.77%) particle up. It can be seen that the most dominant particle used with the verb in the novel the Da Vinci Code is particle out with 27(20%) verb particle combinations.

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particle verb-particle combination novel

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