the acceptability of predicting utterances in deception point novel

The purpose of this study is to find the type of predicting and the quality of translation on the acceptability aspect. this research can be classified as a descriptive qualitative research with an embeded study and translation of product-oriented. the source of the data in this study is novel in english, entitled deception point and its translation in bahasa. the data were collected through document analysis, questionnaire and focus group discussion. the data was sentence that contains predicting utterances. from the data collected in the novel deception point, there were 87 data. type of predictive modality with acceptable were 97.06% (81 data) and less acceptable translation were 2.94% (6 data). then, on the type of hypothetical prediction were 66.67% with acceptable translation and 33.33% with less acceptable, then 100% were type of habitual prediction with an acceptable translation.