This research is about contrastive study of sentence structure between
English and Buginese. The problem statements of this research are: (1) How are
the forms of sentence structure in English and Buginese? and (2) What are the
differences between sentence structure in English and Buginese?. The method
used is the library method and the technique is descriptive analysis. It aims to
provide a real description of the syntactic forms of both languages. This research
is intended: (1) To know the sentence structure in English and Buginese and (2)
To know the differences of English and Buginese sentence structure. The research
begins to discuss the large to the small part; syntax to word, in order to know the
sentence elements in general and to be able to recognize the sentence patterns of
English and Buginese. The result of this research has shown that there are
differences between sentence structure in English and Buginese, such as: (1) the
forms of the subject and predicate position in English differ from Buginese, (2) in
helping predicate of English is known as verb while in Buginese does not own it,
(3) the verb of English sentence will change because of the tenses and there is no
changing verb in Buginese, and (4) subject verb agreement only applies in English
sentence.
. Conclusion
English owns 7 patterns while there are 5 patterns of Buginese. Here
are the patterns:
English Buginese
1. Subject + Verb + Adverb. 1. Predicate + Subject.
2. Subject + Verb + Complement. 2. Subject + Predicate.
3. Subject + Verb + Object
3. Subject + Predicate + Object.
4. Subject + Verb + Object + Adverb. 4. Predicate + Object +Subject.
5. Subject + Verb + Object
+Complement.
5. Predicate + Object + Subject
+ Adverb.
6. Subject + Verb + Object + Object.
7. Subject + Verb.
English and Bugineseconsist of some supporting elements todetermine
where the words are in sentence structure.
The differences between sentence structure in English and Buginese
have four differences.
1. In the pattern of sentences, English has Subject + Perdicate +
(Object)and Buginese has Subject + Predicate + (Object)and Predicate +
(Object) + Subject.
2. The helping predicate of English is auxiliary verb and Buginese does not
have any helping verb.
3. In English sentence, the predicate always changes because of the tenses
and differs from Buginese sentense that does not change anymore.
4. The subject verb agreementof English will change based on the singular
or plural subject, while Buginese will not change.
B. Suggestion
1. The researcher realizes that there are some weaknesses on this paper so
the readers or the students who want to study about sentence structure of
English and Buginese are suggested to read some other references as the
comparison of this because it requires a special attention to improve the
understanding about these sentence structures.
2. The researcher hopes that there will be more complete discussions about
sentence structure of English and Buginese to fulfill all weaknesses on
this paper.

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