Abstract:
The research deals with The Analysis of Tenses in Abstract of Journal Portal Garuda. This study applied the descriptive analysis. The objectives of this study were to describe what types of verb, auxiliary/modal in the abstract of Journal Portal Garuda, to examine what dominant tense in the abstract of Journal portal Garuda. The data were collected by mean of identified, read, collected, analysis 5 journal. The result of data were types of verb and modal in the abstract of the Journal Portal Garuda. There are 5 tenses contained in the Journal Portal Garuda, the five tenses are present simple tense, past simple tense, present future tense, past future tense, and present perfect tense. The 5 tenses contained in 46 sentences consisting of 23 sentences in the simple present tense, 12 sentences in the simple past tense, 5 sentences in the simple present future tense, 1 sentence in the simple past future tense, and 5 sentences in the simple present perfect tense. The five tenses also have sentences in passive form, The second is about the dominant tense found in the abstract in the Garuda Portal Journal. Based on the finding, the researcher found that the most dominant tense used is the tense in the present form, either in the simple tense, future tense, perfect tense or, the passive form. We can see the present form in the verbs V1 or V1s, the form of To Be Is, are or the simple future modal such as Can, also modal in the simple perfect form such as have.
