The Language Form of Directive Utterance

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1. The Language Form of Directive Utterance

In this analysis, the writer finds three kinds of the language form of directive utterance, namely declarative, interrogative, and imperative sentence. Furthermore, the writer shows some examples of directive utterances based on language forms are as follow: a. Declarative Sentence BD1065DecSug Seth, Jacob, Leah and Embry are in the edge of beach. They are talking about Bella who will change herself to be a vampire a moment again. JakeJacob looks unpleasant if Bella changes herself to be a vampire because he still loves her so much, while Leah looks so sad knowing Jake still loves Bella so much because Leah also loves Jacob. And she wants Jacob to forget Bella Seth : Jake, could you kill Bella if she became a vampire? Leah : No, He would make one of us do it. Jacob : Shut up Leah. Leah : Will you just get over it? It’s not like you’ve imprinted on her. Seth : At least they seem happy. Embry : I think some people are lucky. Jacob : Lucky? None of them belong to themselves anymore. And the sickest part is? Their genes tell them they’re happy. Leah : If you imprint someone else, you’ll finally forget Bella. I mean, any happiness is better than being miserable about someone you can’t have. The utterance If you imprint someone else, you’ll finally forget Bella is included as declarative sentence. It is kind of statement. It declares that if Jacob imprinted someone else, Jacob would finally forget Bella. This utterance has subject and predicate in normal word order. The subject You comes before predicate will forget. And this utterance ends with a full stop. Furthermore, the form of this utterance is complex sentence. It has one independent clause and one dependent clause. The independent clause of this sentence is you’ll finally forget Bella. And the dependent clause of this sentence is if you imprint someone else. The independent clause is the main clause. The main subject of this sentence is you. The main predicate of this sentence is will forget. The main object of this sentence is Bella. And 8 finally is the adverb of manner. The dependent clause of this sentence also has its own structure. The subject of the dependent clause is you. The predicate of the dependent clause is imprint. The object of the dependent clause is someone else. And If is the subordinating conjunction. b. Interrogative Sentence BD1021IntReq Bella’s mom, Renee, is seeing how Alice will make up Bella before Bella goes to the altar for her wedding ceremony. After the make-up is done, Bella will wear the dress. And Alice offers Renee to see it first Alice : Ok… It’s time for the dress Do you want to see it? Renee : I wanna see The utterance Do you want to see it? is included as interrogative sentence because subject and auxiliary are reversed. This sentence is started by an auxiliary. The auxiliary of this sentence is do and it expresses present tense. The subject of this sentence is you, while its predicate is want. And the adverb is to see it. This sentence is also ended by a question mark ?. In conclusion, the subject you comes after the auxiliary do and it is also ended by question mark ?. So this sentence is categorized into interrogative sentence. c. Imperative Sentence BD1020ImpPro Bella’s parent gives her a heirloom. They want Bella to wear it in that wedding ceremony. Bella loves it so much. Then she will hug her mom, Renee. Alice prevents her as soon as possible because it will destroy her make-up that is done by Alice Renee : It’s your first family heirloom. Pass onto your daughter and then her daughter. Bella : Mom I love it. Bella is trying to hug Renee Alice : No smudging my masterpiece. The utterance No smudging my masterpiece. is categorized into imperative sentence because predicate is expressed. This sentence is started by predicate no smudging. This predicate is in the form of 9 gerund smudging which has function as noun. Meanwhile, no is the determiner which is used to show that something is not allowed. The subject of imperative sentence is not expressed but implied. The subject of this sentence is the second person, i.e. you which refers to Bella. And the object is my masterpiece. Moreover, it is ended by full stop. It means that the speaker Alice orders the addressee Bella not to smudge her masterpiece. So this sentence is categorized into imperative sentence. Below is the table of the finding for the language forms of directive utterances. Table 4.1 The Language Form of Directive Utterance No. Types of Sentence Number of Data Amount Percentage 1. Declarative Sentence 001, 006, 008, 010, 016, 028, 029, 030, 034, 036, 037, 048, 057, 061, 065, 066, 071, 076, 084, 085, 087, 088, 090, 094, 095, 096, 097, 101, 105, 107, 108, 112, 116, 123, 129, 130. 36 23.68 2. Interrogative Sentence 002, 003, 004, 007, 009, 015, 017, 021, 024, 025, 033, 049, 051, 062, 064, 069, 070, 072, 077, 082, 113, 117, 121, 127, 128, 132, 135. 27 17.76 3. Imperative Sentence 005, 011,012, 013, 014, 018, 019, 020, 022, 023, 89 58.55 10 026, 027, 031, 032, 035, 038, 039, 040, 041, 042, 043, 044, 045, 046, 047, 050, 052, 053, 054, 055, 056, 058, 059, 060, 063, 067, 068, 073, 074, 075, 078, 079, 080, 081, 083, 086, 089, 091, 092, 093, 098, 099, 100, 102, 103, 104, 106, 109, 110, 111, 114, 115, 118, 119, 120, 122, 124, 125, 126, 131, 133, 134, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147 148, 149, 150, 151, 152. The table above shows that the biggest percentage of the language form of directive utterance found in Breaking Dawn Part 1 movie is in the form of imperative sentence, i.e. 58.55 . In imperative sentence, predicate is extremely emphasized. The predicate used in an imperative sentence is the simple form of verb, regardless of person or tense. It usually ends with a period in writing and a drop in pitch in speech. So that imperative sentence has function to make someone to do something and such is directive utterance. So that imperative sentence includes as directive utterance.

2. The Intention of Directive Utterance