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Fakultas Keguruan dan llrnu pendidikan
Universitas Sebelas Maret Surakarta

STRUCTURE AND \I/RITTEN h]XPRESSION

SKILL I (Subject and Verb)

Dalam sebuah kalimat bahasa Inggris, harus ada minimal satu Subject
dan satu Verb-

Dalam satu klausa ticak boleh a<la ciua jenis subject- Juga tidak boleh ada dua
finite
verbs. Problern 1'zurg biasanya rnuncul sehubungan dengan Subject dan
Verb adalah:
l. Subject atau Verbnya tidak aCa.
2. Subject dan Verbn-va ridak ada,
3. Extra Subject dan Extra Verb.
Coba kita perhatikan contoh soal berikut ini:
I

-... - -..........-

--was ringing continuously for hours.

(A) Loudly
(C) The

(B) In the morning

phone

(D) The bells

Kalimat di atas memiliki Verb yaitu

wc,s

ringing,tapi tidak memiliki Subject. Dari

pilihan jawaran; (A) dan (B) satah karena keduanya adalah adverb-Jawaban
@) The
bells juga salah karena tidak sesuai dengan was ringing yang berbentuk
singular verbJawaban terbaik adalah (c) The phonekarena phone singularverb
dan sesuai dengan
singular verb was

2. Newspapers

ringing.
every morning and every evening.

(A).l;livery

(B) are delivered

(C) on time

@) regularly

Kalimat diatas meTilild syblea yaintNewspapers.

rapi tidak memiliki verb-Jawaban
(A)' (c) dan @) adalah salah karena
mereka bukanverb-Jawaban (B)
benar karena
kalimat di atas memerlukan Verb.

EXERCISE

I:

Find the subjects and the verbs in each

of the following sentences. Then indicate
if the
sentences are correct (C) or incorect
(I
).

l. My besr friend always helpful with problems- (

)
t- ft: bus schedule has changed since last week- (

)
3. Accidentally dropped the glass on
the floor. ( )
4- The customer paying the clerk for
the clothes. ( )
5. The professor handed the syllabus
to the students- ( )

SKTLL 2 (Object of preposition)

An object of Preposition

adalah noun (kateber,cia) atzupronoun

(p-ataganti) yang
teiletak setelah preposition (kata
depan), seperti in, at, of to, by,,
berrind, on dsb. y,ang
befungsi membentuk sebuah prepositional
phrase-

lYith his friends

On the table
In the.country
object of preposition bisa membingungkan
karena banyak yang menduga bahwa
object

of preposition adalah subject.

Harus dtngat bahwa:

Jika

sebuah kata adalah object

difungsikan sebagai Subject.

of preposition, maka kata tersebut tir,rak

bisa

Contoh:
To Mike

(A) really-*

was a big surprise-

(B) the party

(f)

tunny

(D) when

Dari kalimat diatas, harus dipahami bahwa

Mike (noun) bukalah Subject tapi object
of
preposition dari To' subject dari
kalimat diata-s tidak ad4 sedangkan verbnya
adatah

jawaban terbaik adalah

was. Karena yang dibutuhkan adalah Subject, maka

(B)'

the

parry.Sedangkan(A),(c),dan@)salahkarenamerekabukanlahSubject"
Exercise:
1.

(C)
The name of the baby in the crib is Jackpapers'( I)
next meeting of theclass need to turn in the

2.Bythe

page 20 urrclear'
3. The directions to the exercise on

the night, the walkways are rnuddy'

4. Because of the heavy rain tiuoughoutcafeteria
5. During the -week eat lunch in the schooi

i:

was tired'
6- In the rnorning after the concert

T.lnthesununerthetriptothemountainsisourfavoritetrip.
S.Inaboxonthetopshelfofthecabinetinthehallwayofthehouse.
the door'
9. With her purse in her hand ran through
the table beside the bed rang'
l0- At l:00 in the morning the alarm clock on

orrce and the verbs twice' Circle the

EXERCISE (Skills l--2):Underline the subjects
verb' Then indicate if the sentences are
prepositional phrases that come before the

corlect (C) or incorrect (I)'

1.

During the meeting h the ofhce

<iiscussed the schedule'

2-Thedoctor gave the patient a prescription'

tall evergreen trees along the road'

new battery
4, The watch in the jewelry box needs a

3. The

offrces every morning'

5. Pleasantty greets everyone in all the
trom the park on the corner'
the ottice of the buitding across the street
6. tn

to be washed as soon as possible7. The dishes in the sink really need

li.Inamomentofworryabouttheproblemwiththecashintheaccount.
the airport'
9. The plane from New York circling
10.

window in the kitchen are

on a regular basis the plants in the boxes under the
watered and fed.

TOEFLEXERCISE(Skillsl-2):Choosetheletterofthewordorgroupofwordsthat
best comPletes the sentence'
1.

Mark Twain
(A) called /
iCj ft" called

Age'"
the years after the Civil War the "Gilded
@) calling(D) his calls

Z.Early _
toes instead of hoo..,es on their feet(A) horses
(B) had horses
(C) horses had ,/
(D) horses having
a

grow close to the ground in the short Arctic summer(A) Above tundra plants
(B) Tuncira plants J
(C) Tundra planLs are found
(D) For tundra plants

J.

4.ln 1867,
(A) purchased,the United Sta'tes
(c) the united States' purchase of
5-

Betvreen 1725 and 1750, Ne"rr England witnesse<i an increase in the speciali-zation

(A) occupations

6. The large carotid

artery

(A) canying blood

(C) carries blood

of

(B) occupies
(D) it occupied them

(C) they occupied

to the main parts of the brain.

(B) blood is carried
(D) blood carries

radio as the first practica! system of wireless telegraphy(A) llarconi's development .

(B)'I'he development by Marconi

7.

(C) Developing Mzrconi

8.

(B) to purchase the United States

(D) the united states purchased

ln 1975, the first successfu!

(D) Marconi developed

space

to Earth.

(A) Venus (C) Venus was

9.7

est resort

(A) in
(C)'towns are
10.

pry!.

ro

beginning to send information back

(B) Venus the "

(D) Venus it was
Arkansas ar?Kot Springs and Eureka Springs.
((B) towns in '

NASA'S Lyndon B. Johnson

Mercury Gemini, and Apollo
(A) it was at the
(C) was the.

{D) towns are in

Space Center
space flights.

(B) it was the

(D)the

SKILL 3 (PRJDSENT PARTICIPLES)

control center for the