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Using a good sentence in introducing the setting, the sentence structure must have an appropriate part to be acknowledged by the readers. The setting of a place may also need a noun phrase as part of the clauses in the sentences. This research provides an explanation of how noun phrases are used in travel literature. The travel literature itself is the novel Selimut Debu which was written by a famous Indonesian writer, Agustinus Wibowo. This research conducts an analysis of how the setting of place in the novel is acknowledged by the writer by using some specific noun phrases. The noun phrases are delivered through the use of thatclause. This research describes the that-clause as an evaluative term toward the entities that the travel writing writer informs in his travel writing text. The that-clause examines how the subject position connects the head or the NP (noun phrase) with the predicate-clause. It also describes the structure of noun phrases in the subject position. The subject position in the sentence gives evaluation to the preceded subject. The result shows that that-clause include four evaluative clauses, they are entity, stance, source, and expression. The second result is this research has found that that-clause has been an explicit marker that connects the head or NPs (noun phrase) with the predicate clause.

that-clause; evaluative entity; evaluative stance; evaluative source; evaluative expression; explicit marker