Constrative Analysis Between Indonesia and English Declarative Sentences at Second Year of Senior High School No. 2 Kejuruan Muda Aceh Tamiang

Sentence is a group of words that makes sense because the words are constructed and arranged according to the grammatical rules for expressing statements, questions or commands. In linguistic, sentence function refers to a speaker’s purpose in uttering a specific sentence, phrase, or clause. The four basic sentence functions in the world’s language include the declarative, interrogative, exclamation, and the imperative. Here, the writer will analyze the similarities and dissimilarities between English and Indonesia declarative sentence and also we will know about students difficulties in constructing declarative sentence. By doing this research, we will know the similarities and dissimilarities between English and Indonesia declarative sentence and also we will know about students difficulties in constructing declarative sentence The research is qualitative descriptive research. The data source in here is test an interview. The writer used triangulation to analyze the data which have been collected by the writer. Finally, the writer found that there are some patterns of declarative sentences that similar between Indonesian and English language, exactly in the category of transitive, bitransitive, and intransitive. In contrast, there is pattern of declarative sentences that exists in Indonesian; while in English it does not. And half of students at the second grade in that school are good in composing English sentences. The most errors are made in translating Indonesia declarative sentences into English. Because of that, The students should make declarative sentence based on the right patterns