Abstract:
The study deals with "A Contrastive Analysis of Question Words Between
English and Mandailaing Language" to discuss the similarities and dissimilarities
that can be found in the interrogative sentence Mandailing and English language
support. This study uses Contrastive method is a method that compares the two
languages are derived from different clumps to find similarities and dissimilarities
of the two languages. From this discussion it is found that there are some
dissimilarities between the sentence asked both English and Mandailings that
question words in the Mandailing language followed by articles such as the word
"do" and besides there are also the use of question words, the function of the verb
in the sentence asked, users supplementary question words and wordings in the
interrogative sentence. In addition, there are some similarities that can be found
from a comparison of the two languages, namely the equation in terms of number
of question words, the number of varieties interrogative sentence and the question
word as always be in a the beginning position interrogative sentence (such as the
question word "aso" as asked "why")
