A SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS OF INTERROGATIVE SENTENCES IN COLLEEN HOOVER’S REMINDERS OF HIM

Abstract

This syntactic analysis aimed to shed light on the constructions and the functions of
interrogative sentences found in the novel Reminders of Him. This research is qualitative. The
writers collected data from the novel Reminders of Him using non-participant observation
(Suwartono, 2014). The data were analyzed using a distributional method (Sudaryanto, 2015;
Mahsun, 2017). The findings of this research principally support the categories of
constructions and functions of interrogative sentences set out by Greenbaum & Nelson
(2012) and Seaton & Mew (2007). The researchers found; 278 wh-constructions, 204 yes/no
question constructions, 65 declarative constructions, 6 alternative constructions, 3 tag
constructions, 2 rhetorical constructions, and 133 incomplete sentences. The writers also
found 316 interrogative sentences function to ask for information, 307 to ask for agreement,
57 to confirm something, and 11 functions to give options.