QUESTIONS IN ENGLISH AND TOBA BATAK LANGUAGE

The thesis addresses questions in English and Toba Batak Language (TBL). Specifically, the study describes similarities and differences of question sentences in the two languages. The objectives of the study are to describe the similarities and differences in structure and mood between English and TBL. Mood is one part of analyzing sentence in Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL). The data for TBL are taken from some informants. The findings indicate that there are two types of question in English and TBL, they are those using question words and yes/no questions. In English a question there are eight question words in English and eleven in TBL. In question sentences, English uses tense sequence finite as the marker but in TBL there is no tense sequence one of the Mood elements in English is fmite but in TBL the Mood is constituted by most mood element consists only adjunct. The finite as the tense sequence marker in English includes to be, auxiliary verbs, and modal such as Am, Are, Did, Do, Will, Can, etc. Finite as the question marker in TBL are do and na..