A Contrastive Analysis between English and Indonesian General Sentences Pattern

Abstract

The objective of the study is to find out the similarities and dissimilarities of general sentences pattern in English and Bahasa indonesia. This study was conducted by using descriptive qualitative. The data were obtained by using the library and documentary research. The require gathered by reading some books and from internet. Contrastive analysis is used to analyze the data and to show the similaritied and dissimilarities in English and Bahasa Indonesia general sentences pattern in terms of forms and functions. In English, there are 16 tenses that used in general sentences pattern. Bahasa Indonesia didn’t use tenses, but using adverb of time.