This research analyzed types of phrases and sentence patterns that are used in
students’ academic writing at University of PGRI Delta. The objectives of this
research are: (1) to identify types of phrases used in students’ academic writing at
University of PGRI Delta, (2) to describe sentence patterns used in students’
academic writing at University of PGRI Delta. This research used the theory by
Quirk et al. (2010) to analyze types of phrases and sentence patterns. The object of
this research was students’ academic writing. The researcher analyzed the
background of the study from one of the student’s theses with a minimum of
plagiarism entitled: Types and Meaning of Conventional Implicature Found in
Whatsapp Chats. The researcher used descriptive qualitative method to analyzed
the data. The findings reveal that there were five types of phrases are used as
follows: Noun Phrase (126 data), Verb Phrase (55 data), Adjective Phrase (4 data),
Adverb Phrase (18 data), and Prepositional Phrase (63 data). There were seven basic
sentence patterns are used as follows: SVO (23 data), SVA (9 data), SVC (8 data),
SVOC (4 data), the SV (3 data), SVOA (3 data), and the last SVOO (0 data).