Abstract :
This research was aimed to analyze functions of the gerund found on the main
character in the subtitle of “Thor†movie. Gerund is defined as the verb –ing
functioning as a noun. This research was a kind of descriptive qualitative research.
The main character of Thor movie was the subject of this study. The instruments
of this research were the researcher herself and the observation field note. All
subtitle of Thor movie was the source of the data in this study. The data were the
phrase (s) or sentence (s) containing the gerunds. In this research, there are some
steps of data analysis namely: classification, description, and making conclusion.
The researcher found three functions of gerund. Those functions were (1) gerund
as subject consisting of 1 datum, (2) gerund as direct object consisting 11 data,
and (3) gerund as subjective complement containing 23 data