Abstract
Abstract
 The paper entitled “Types of Yes-No Question Found in the movie “500 Days of Summer” focuses on types of the English interrogative sentences especially yes-no question forms and their functions used in the movie 500 Days of Summer in 2009. The data were analyzed qualitatively in accordance with some relative theories. The theories used for this study are the theories of English yes-no questions taken from “Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language” by Quirk (1985) and “A Practical English Grammar” by Thomson A.J and A.V Martinet (1986). Then the data were presented descriptively by explaning the process and the result of discussion.Based on the findings there are five forms of English yes-no questions found in the data belonging to the Major classes of questions. Those English yes-no questions found in the data were possitive yes-no questions, negative yes-no questions, declarative questions, tag questions, yes-no questions with modal auxiliaries. The data were analyzed and some functions of the interrogative sentence were found: (a) Asking for request;(b) Confirmation; (c) Offering; (d) Asking for information; (f) Asking for permission .Mostly yes-no questions found in the data are asking for information and confirmation. However, suggestion and greeting do not exist in the data.
Highlights
Background of the StudyA sentence is a grammatical structure composed of one or more clauses and minimally combined a subject and a verb, but it may contain object compliment and adverbial, conventionally written with an initial capital letter and final full stop or other terminators (Jackson 2002:98)
The process included first watching the movie and listening to the conversation of the characters in the movie, second reading the script of the movie in the script in order to find out yes-no question and find out the function and meaning of interrogative sentence type that found in the movie, third note taking the data and ordering them into a list
The data were classified into 5 yes-no question types used the theory from Quirk et al (1985).The chosen data described in terms of the function based on the theory proposed by Thomson and Martinet (1986)
Summary
A sentence is a grammatical structure composed of one or more clauses and minimally combined a subject and a verb, but it may contain object compliment and adverbial, conventionally written with an initial capital letter and final full stop or other terminators (Jackson 2002:98). B. What is the function of yes-no question type found in the movie 500 Days of Summer?. To identify and describe yes-no question sentence type in the movie 500 Day of Summer. B. To identify and describe the function of yes-no question sentence type in the movie 500 Days of Summer. The data taken from the sentences used in the dialogue in the movie 500 Days of Summer and the original script of the movie which has been published This movie was chosen as the data source because there are a lot of sample of the type yes –no question used in the script and it tells us that love cannot control us, it will find us on a right time. The process included first watching the movie and listening to the conversation of the characters in the movie, second reading the script of the movie in the script in order to find out yes-no question and find out the function and meaning of interrogative sentence type that found in the movie, third note taking the data and ordering them into a list
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