An Analysis of Imperative Sentences in Cruella Movie

Abstract

This study aims to analyze and explain clearly the types of imperative sentences contained in the Cruella Movie transcript by applying Swan's theory (1982:77), which divides them into 4 types of imperative sentences: imperative sentences as requests, imperative sentences as commands, imperative sentences as directions, and imperative prohibitions as prohibitions. The data analyzed is data that comes from the Cruella Movie transcript, which is included in the imperative sentence type. The researcher uses a descriptive qualitative method that describes and analyzes each data set. In the research and analysis that has been carried out using descriptive qualitative methods, it has been found that as many as 96 data points are included in imperative sentences in the Cruella Movie. Researchers separate data that belongs to each type of imperative sentence. They are imperative sentence as command as much as 27 data (28.12%), imperative sentence as requested as much as 17 data (17.70%), imperative sentence as direction 23 data (23.95%), and imperative sentence as prohibition 29 data (30.20%). The type of imperative that dominates the Cruella Movie transcript is the imperative sentence as prohibition, and the lowest is the type of imperative sentence as requested.