Contrastive Study of English with Arabic in Imperative Sentence

Abstract

The objectives of the research are to identify the differences and the similarities which can befound between imperative sentence in English and Arabic. The variable of this research is imperativesentence which is compared and contrasted to the English and Arabic language. In addition, incollecting the data, the writer uses library study and documentation technique. It is because the researchwas held in the library to find out the data from books, journals, and the other documents which arerelated to the research. Moreover, the writer also uses nothing technique and separating technique as thetechnique of analysis data. In describing the data, the writer also uses qualitative approach anddescriptive analysis to interpret the data systematically and to find out the characteristic of imperativesentence in English and Arabic. Afterwards, to analyze the data the writer uses content analysis toanalyze how far the data can describe and interpret the complete informations about the variable of theresearch in order to find out the similarities and the differences of imperative sentence in English andArabic completely through contrastive analysis. Based on the result, imperative sentence in English andArabic have the differences in several points such as the difference of the subject, the forms of the verb,the pattern, etc. However, there are also the similarities of imperative sentence in English and Arabic ingeneral such as the similarity of the use ‘you’ as the subject, positive and negative imperative sentenceas the form, etc.