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Senin, 23 Juni 2008

- COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN ENGLISH AND ARABIC DEGREE OF COMPARISON




By
Siti Rondhasah
03004115

ABSTRACT

This thesis discusses the comparative study between English and Arabic. The writer chooses English and Arabic because Arabic is the second international language and the difficult language after English for the writer. And both of these languages have the important role in science and technology. If English and Arabic are studied in the same time, people will feel confused because both of them have the different language family and also different system. The title of this thesis is comparative study between English and Arabic degree of comparison. This focuses on degrees of comparison types, changing forms, and way of use. It is aimed at finding out the similarities and differences between English and Arabic degree of comparison in types, changing forms, and way of use.

This research uses descriptive and comparative method. It describes types, changing forms, and way of use of English and Arabic degrees of comparison. Both of them are compared in order to get the similarities and differences. The writer takes the data from English and Arabic grammar books, Holy Koran, Hades, and linguistics theory books. It applies noting, separating and transferring techniques. To analyze the data, the writer uses description and comparison techniques.

The result of this research shows that English and Arabic degree of comparison have similarities in types, namely comparative and superlative degree. The other similarity is that the adjective of English and Arabic in degree of comparison changes from the original form or positive degree. There are three kinds of differences of English and Arabic degree of comparison. First, English has positive degree, but Arabic does not have positive degree. Second, changing form of English degree of comparison is related to the final letter and amount of the syllables, but the changing form of Arabic degree of comparison depends on the sex of the subject. If the subject is male, the adjective must be appropriated with form or wazan af’alu. If the subject is female, the adjective must be appropriated with form or wazan fu’laa. Third, the way of use of English degree of comparison are related to the types of degree of comparison, but the way of use of Arabic degree of comparison depends on the condition of isim tafdhil and kind of the word (mudzakkar/muannas) and the component in the sentence.

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