ENGLISH AND MANDARAIN COMPARATIVE DEGREES IN NEXT MOVE STUDENT’S BOOK FOR ELEMENTARY STUDENTS AND 汉语 教程 HANYU JIAOCHENG

Abstract

In order to enrich students’ knowledge about how to use comparative words of English and Mandarin language, the aim of writing this thesis is to find out the similarities and the differences of comparative words of both languages. The concept used in this research is comparative words, and its kinds. The theory used to analyze the similarities and the differences of comparative words is contrastive analysis, syntax, and translation theory. The methodology used in this research is descriptive analysis. The result shows that there are many similarities and differences between English and Mandarin language. The similarities are, both languages have 3 kinds of comparative words, all have the same meaning and same function. The differences are, the usage adjective in English comparative words has to be placed after the Subject of the sentence, while in Mandarin, and adjective is placed in the end of the sentences. There are many other differences and similarities will be discussed in this article.