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saying he’s got a five-point plan for the economy; turns out its a one-point plan.” Here, Barack Obama tried to change the mindset of the listener in order to they
rejected Romney as president and instead they could support him to became a president of America.
4.1.2.13. Convince
Convince is a sentence to make a person feel certain with the truth that we speak. Convince a function of persuasive sentence because if we tell someone about
the truth of what we said, then that person will follow our wishes. In this research, the researcher found the data included in the functions of convince and total the data is 56
or 24.3 from 230 data. Here, the researcher describes an example of a sentence that has a function of convince.
Excerpt 19 Datum 1b 15 America, our moment is now. Our moment is now. I do not want to
spend the next year or the next four years re-fighting the same fights that we had in the 1990s. I do not want to pit Red America against
Blue America, I want to be the President of the United States of America.
The example above is sentences uttered by Barack Obama on his nomination
to be president in his first period. His campaign speech hold on November 10, 2007 at Des Moines, Iowa.
Barack Obama tries to convince his audience by said that now is the time to change America if they want to vote him to became President. That fact can be seen
from sentence “our moment is now. Our moment is now.” Barack Obama says the
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sentence with authoritative tone and vigorous, so that anyone who hears that will think Barack Obama deserves to be president of the United States. Moreover, Barack
Obama also addes the sentence “I do not want to spend the next year or the next four
years re-fighting the same fights that we had in the 1990s ” that will make the listener
feel more confident because if Barack Obama becomes president then he will not waste time and will fight to make America be better, and he will not let the United
States get failure experienced as before. 4.1.2.14. Assert
Assert is something that expresses the truth of an event. Assert including the function of persuasive sentence because if we declare a truth to others, then we can
change the mindset of the people and make it same with our mindset. In this research, the researcher found the data included in the function of assert and the total data are
34 or 14.7 from 230 data. Here, the researcher describes an example of a sentence that has a function of assert.
Excerpt 20 Datum 1b 2
A little less than one year from today, you will go into the voting booth and you will select the President of the United States of
America. Now, heres the good news - the name George W. Bush will not be on the ballot. The name of my cousin Dick Cheney will not be
on the ballot. Weve been trying to hide that for a long time. Everybody has a black sheep in the family. The era of Scooter Libby
justice, and Brownie incompetence, and Karl Rove politics will finally be over.
