A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN ENGLISH AND KARO LANGUAGE OF PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES

Abstract

Language is one of the most fundamental defining features of the human being, and scholars have been trying to capture its essentials for thousands of years. One way of doing this is to try to establish the limits and possibilities of human language by comparing the structures of a wide range of diverse language. Comparing two languages is as approach to find the problem which may be faced by the student’s contrastive approach. This study is aimed to compare and analyze between English and Karo Language of Prepositional Phrase. This study used qualitative approach in analyzing the data of the study. English and Karo language prepositional phrases are made up two or more words. But they have a different structure, in the structure pattern of prepositional phrase in English, the pattern of preposition appear as the head in the prepositional phrase and also appear before a noun, an adjective as a modifier in the noun phrase and a verb. But, in Karo language the pattern of structure preposition phrase appears in the form preposition followed by noun and noun followed by the preposition, and there is no determiner occurs after preposition in prepositional phrase of Karo Language. In mastering and understanding English prepositional phrase, the writers should pay attention syntactically to the rules of prepositional phrase and also need to know not only from the form of syntactic but also semantically.