Syntactic Characteristics Of African American Vernacular English In Bad Boys Ii Movie

This research is aimed to analyze the syntactic characteristics of African American Vernacular English in ?Bad Boys II? movie. The important purpose of this research is to categorize the types of syntactic characteristics of African American Vernacular English which are found in sentences in ?Bad Boys II? movie. The writer uses descriptive qualitative method to analyze and describe the syntactic characteristics of African American Vernacular English which found in sentences in ?Bad Boys II? movie and to make the comparations for those sentences in Standard American English. To support the research, the writer used Cambridge Advanced Learners‟ Dictionary (2008). Finally, the writer found twenty syntactic characteristics of African American English in ?Bad Boys II? movie categorized into six categories; Auxiliaries, Existential it and dey, Negation, Genitive ??s, Questions, Verbal ?s. The comparations for them in Standard American English are The verb be, Expletive there, Negations, Possessive inflectional form, Questions, and Inflectional suffixes ?s and ?es