Corpus-Based Analysis of the Most Frequent Adjective on Covid-19

This study aims to investigate the type of adjectives in the most frequent adjectives and
also the use of the adjective functions on academic writing about COVID-19. This study
was conducted by using a corpus tool named sketchengine. The method of this study was
a mixed-method by combining quantitative and qualitative approaches. The source of
the data was corpus about COVID-19 academic writing due to the fact that COVID-19
has been the trending topic around the globe and also became an international concern.
There were several data collection steps; those were first, knowing the most frequent
adjective in the COVID-19 corpus by choosing a wordlist. Second, the data were taken
20 the most frequent adjectives used in COVID-19 corpus because 20 data have already
represented the most frequent adjectives. Third, it chose the concordance to comprehend
the function of the adjective in the COVID-19 corpus. Fourth, 20 the most frequent
adjectives were inputted one at a time on concordance. Fifth, the data were analyzed
based on the related theory. Finally, it is inferred that the adjective type on the most
frequent adjective is a describing adjective, which has the function to frame the
condition, situation and characteristic of the noun on the COVID-19 cases.
Keywords: adjective, corpus, covid-19