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Hello 🙂 How’s everything? Kita telah membahas mengenai Causative Verbs. Kali ini kita akan bahas klarifikasi lengkap Subject Verb Agreement.
“Apa subject verb agreement itu?”, “Bagaimana teladan subject verb agreement tsb?”, “Apa saja hukum dalam subject verb agreement?”. Let’s discuss!
Penjelasan Lengkap Subject Verb Agreement
Pengertian Subject Verb Agreement
Agreement berarti kesesuaian. Kata lain dari agreement yakni concord. Sedangkan Subject Verb Agreement yakni kesesuaian antara subjek dengan kata kerja dalam sebuah kalimat.
Sebuah kata kerja harus sesuai dengan subyeknya. Kita lihat teladan berikut:
The cat eats fish. | The cats eat fish. |
cat = singular subject eats = singular verb | cats = plural subject eat = plural verb |
Aturan Subject Verb Agreement
1. Singular – Plural
» Jika subject singular, maka gunakan verb singular.
- Novita goes/
goto school. - The cat
eat/eats fish. - She
read/reads a book.
» Jika subject plural, maka gunakan verb plural.
- The students
goes/go to school. - The cats eat/
eatsfish. - They read/
readsbook.
Jangan lupa dengan singular dan plural nouns (women, children, people). Baca Juga: Penjelasan Lengkap Singular dan Plural Nouns
2. Prepositional phrases
» Jika terdapat prepositional phrase, maka subject yakni sebelum preposition.
- Salah: The door (at the houses)
arebroken. - Benar: The door (at the houses) is broken.
Penjelasan: ‘At the houses’ adalah prepositional phrase. Maka subject dalam kalimat diatas yakni the door, dan verb yang dipakai yakni is.
» Jika terdapat lebih dari satu prepositional phrases, maka subject yakni sebelum preposition pertama.
- Salah: The meeting (of the teachers) (in the school)
beginat 10 a.m. - Benar: The meeting (of the teachers) (in the school) begins at 10 a.m.
Penjelasan: ‘Of the teachers, in the school” yakni prepositional phrases. Maka subject dalam kalimat diatas yakni the meeting, dan verb yang dipakai yakni begins.
3. Conjunction ‘and’
» Ketika dua subjek dihubungkan dengan “and”, maka gunakan verb plural.
- The cars and motorcycles park in front of the building.
- Rina and Rini are playing guitar together.
4. Expressions of Quantity
» Apabila terdapat expressions of quantity (all, most, atau some) diikuti oleh preposition ‘of’, maka subject bisa singular atau plural, tergantung pada kata benda sehabis preposition.
- All (of the flower) grows beautifully.
- All (of the flowers) grow beautifully.
- Most (of the student) arrives at school.
- Most (of the students) arrive at school.
- Some (of the cake) has been eaten.
- Some (of the cakes) have been eaten.
5. Agreement after Certain Words
Certain words dalam Bahasa Inggris yakni kata-kata yang selalu berbentuk tunggal (singular) secara gramatikal, namun mungkin mempunyai makna jamak (plural).
- Salah: Everybody in library
are readingthe book. - Benar: Everybody in library is reading the book.
Penjelasan: Meskipun kita mengerti bahwa ada banyak orang yang membaca buku di perpustakaan, namun kata everybody berbentuk singular dan membutuhkan singular verb yakni is reading.
Beberapa certain words dibawah ini mempunyai bentuk tunggal (singular), jadi harus memakai kata kerja tunggal (singular verb):
everybody | somebody | each (+ noun) |
everyone | someone | every (+ noun) |
everything | something | |
anybody | nobody | |
anyone | noone | |
anything | nothing |
- Everyone
eat/eats meatball. - Someone has/
haveto work hard. - Anything
are/is possible. - Each flower in the pot
grow/grows beautifully. - Every boy and girl plays/
playat playground everyday.*
*Dalam kalimat tersebut, kita tidak peduli berapa banyak singular noun (boy, girl) yang dihubungkan oleh ‘and‘. Subjek (every) tetap singular, maka diperlukan kata kerja singular (plays).
6. Interrupting Phrase
Interrupting phrase yakni phrase yang menggangu dalam penentuan subject. Beberapa interrupting phrase antara lain:
together with | as well as |
along with | including |
especially | in addition to |
- Salah: Nina, together with her friends,
arecleaning the room. - Benar: Nina, together with her friends, is cleaning the room.
Penjelasan: Subject dalam kalimat tersebut yakni Nina, maka kata kerja yang dipakai yakni is, sedangkan together with her friends yakni interrupting phrase.
- Salah: The dogs, as well as the cat,
isa mammal. - Benar: The dogs, as well as the cat, are mammals.
Penjelasan: Subject dalam kalimat tersebut yakni the dogs, maka kata kerja yang dipakai yakni are, sedangkan as well as the cat adalah interrupting phrase.
7. There and Here
- There is a blackboard.
- There are trees beside the building.
- Here is the pencil.
- Here are the books that you need.
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Okay, class. Bagaimana materinya? Nah, itulah penjelasan lengkap subject verb agreement.
Sekarang sudah tahu kan apa pengertian, hukum dan teladan subject verb agreement tersebut?
Terus berguru dan berlatih ya. Semoga bahan ini sanggup menambah pengetahuan kita semua. →Coba Latihan Soal Subject Verb Agreement
Baca juga: Daftar Lengkap Irregular Verbs, Berbagai Percakapan Bahasa Inggris
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References:
- Philips, Deborah. 2004. Longman Introductory Course for the TOEFL Test: The Paper Test. Longman Pearson Education.
- Straus, Jane. http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar/subjectVerbAgree.asp. Accessed on July 19, 2016.
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