A Contrastive Analysis of Adverb Clause on Explanation Text in Indonesia and English

Abstract

The goal of this research is to find out the similarities and dissimilarities between English and Indonesian sentence pattern at adverb of Clause in a  Explanantion text entitled “How Does Snow happen”. The function of this research is to knowing the ability of the 6th semester of the English Study Program at the University of HKBP Nommensen Pematangsiantar. For method instrument the researcher using a qualitative research. At this research, researchers collected, analyzed and make conclusion based on the data that we found on the analyzed and does not making a generalization. Qualitative research is doing by collect and analyses non-numerical data such as in text, videos or audio to understand concepts, opinions, or experiences. Based on the data analysis of the Explanation Text above, researchers found 23 sentences containing adverb clauses. There are 8 types of adverb clauses, including 3 types of adverb clause that are not contained in the Explanation Text, namely Adverb Clause of Manner, Adverb Clause of Place and Adverb clause of Concession. Based on the results of the data that we analyzed, the analysis of the adverb clause in English in Indonesia on the Explanation Text “How Does Snow happen” prove that both have a similarity in the structure and function of the adverb clause, but the position of words has a little difference, such as position subject and verb. In the explanation text, there are 23 (twenty three) sentences that contain of Adverb Clause.