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Senin, 23 Juni 2008

- A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS ON THE ENGLISH




By:
USWATUN HASANAH
00026063

ABSTRACT

English is not an easy language to be mastered. One of the English language items which often cause difficulty is an adjective. The existence of adjective can not be ignored since it is often found in written text or spoken. In short, the adjective is one of the most frequently used language items, whether it is in English and Dermayonese. Based on that problem, this study is focused on English and Dermayonese adjectives.

This study was conducted to answer some problems related to English and Dermayonese adjectives. The problems are about the similarities and differences between English and Dermayonese adjectives in kinds, forms, functions and positions. In doing this study, the writer obtained the data from library. The data were gathered from many grammar books in library. This study used a contrastive analysis. This kind of analysis describes the comparison of two or more languages in order to determine both of similarities and differences between them.

As the result of the study, the writer can conclude there are similarities and differences between English and Dermayonese adjectives. The similarity in kinds of English and Dermayonese adjectives is consist proper adjectives, descriptive adjectives, quantitative adjectives, numeral adjectives, demonstrative adjectives, interrogative adjectives, distributive adjectives and possessive adjectives. In the forms of English and Dermayonese adjectives the similarity is that it can be in simple, compound, and derivative forms. The difference of forms English and Dermayonese adjectives is in reduplication. In Dermayonese there are the reduplication adjectives forms. Whereas in English there is not found the reduplication adjectives forms. The position of English and Dermayonese adjectives is different. In English, the position of adjectives can be placed before the nouns they modify and can be placed after the nouns they modify by adding linking verb before the adjectives. Whereas in Dermayonese, the adjectives are always placed after the nouns they modify. The function of English and Dermayonese adjectives can be attributive adjectives and predicative adjectives.






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