Abstract
This paper critically aims to explain and describe the comparison between English and French simple personal pronoun. The comparison will be based on the form of simple personal pronoun related to the gender and show the similarities and dissimilarities between English and French simple personal pronoun. The method that is used in this study is descriptive method which covers descriptive and comparative techniques. The descriptive research is aimed to solve the problems in recent time. This study reveals some conclusion. (1) The inflection of French personal pronoun changes fully. (2) The declension of personal pronoun is complex according to gender beginning with the first person, second person and third person. Each declension of French have a specific form, depends on gender. The form of predicate is wide according to the gender. (3) The inflection of English personal pronoun is simpler than French because some terms of its declension have the same form (e.g. I, We, You, They). (4) The declension of French personal pronoun is complex and has a close relation with the predicate, because French verbs have three kinds of conjugation and its personal pronoun has its personal endings for the each term.
Highlights
Language is a system for the communication of meaning and every language meets the communicative needs of its users (Julia, 1978:7)
English and French come from Indo-European family of languages; English was descendent of Indo-Germanic, the language spoken by the Germanic invaders of England in 1449
Even in Old English some inflections were passing out of use, During the long period when French was the official language of England many more inflections were lost, especially in the middle English period, English changes greatly
Summary
Language is a system for the communication of meaning and every language meets the communicative needs of its users (Julia, 1978:7). Language is a means of communication among people. It is a kind of idea or concept used by people transferring and sharing information, feelings, experiences, knowledge, and as well to understand, persuade, and convert the others. English that comes from Indo-European language is acknowledged to be an international language which its use is wide. It is the language of England but of the extensive domination of colonies associated in the British Empire, it is the language of the United States and Australia (Baugh, 1957:4) spoken by over 260 million people. There are still many languages spoken by million people such as Chinese, Spanish, Arabic, French, Italian and Russian
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