This research aims to analyze the syntactic differences between Standard American English and African-American English in Remember the Titans film. The important purpose of this research is to know the syntactic characteristic of English in America which are found in some sentences of the film. There are two kinds of English in America: Standard American English (SAE) and African-American English (AAE). Grammatical rules in Standard American English and African- American English theory and syntax theory by Noam Chomsky are used in this research to decide the syntactic differences found in “Remember the Titans” film. Grammatical rules in Standard American English are article, negation, marker s, and verbs am, is and are. And grammatical rules in African-American English are article, marker s, predication and copula, tenses, negation, habitual be, double subjects, double modals, and questions. In this research, there are 34 sentences found in the film as the data that contain of syntactic characteristics in Standard American English and African-American English categorized into five features, marker s, predication, copula, tenses and negation. The most frequently used is negation which is found in 18 sentences.

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