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Senin, 02 Agustus 2010

2nd Assignment

1. The Function of TO BE (present tense) :
To Be used functions as a liaison between the subject and predicate. To be able to change-ubahsesuai with the subject. 

2. The Form of TO BE :
a. Positive : you are student , she is clever , he is hansome
b. Negative :
you aren't student , she isn't clever , he isn't hansome
c. Interrogative : are you student ?, is she clever ?, is he hansome ?
 

3.The Uses and Forms of Personal Pronouns and Possesive Adjective :  

Personal Pronouns : represent specific people or things.
We use them depending on:
  • number: singular (eg: I) or plural (eg: we)
  • person: 1st person (eg: I), 2nd person (eg: you) or 3rd person (eg: he)
  • gender: male (eg: he), female (eg: she) or neuter (eg: it)
  • case: subject (eg: we) or object (eg: us)
We use personal pronouns in place of the person or people that we are talking about. My name is Josef but when I am talking about myself I almost always use "I" or "me", not "Josef". When I am talking direct to you, I almost always use "you", not your name. When I am talking about another person, say John, I may start with "John" but then use "he" or "him". And so on.
Here are the personal pronouns, followed by some example sentences:
numberpersongenderpersonal pronouns
subjectobject
singular1stmale/femaleIme
2ndmale/femaleyouyou
3rdmalehehim
femalesheher
neuteritit
plural1stmale/femaleweus
2ndmale/femaleyouyou
3rdmale/female/neutertheythem
Examples (in each case, the first example shows a subject pronoun, the second an object pronoun):
  • I like coffee.
  • John helped me.
  • Do you like coffee?
  • John loves you.
  • He runs fast.
  • Did Ram beat him?
  • She is clever.
  • Does Mary know her?
  • It doesn't work.
  • Can the engineer repair it?
  • We went home.
  • Anthony drove us.
  • Do you need a table for three?
  • Did John and Mary beat you at doubles?
  • They played doubles.
  • John and Mary beat them.
When we are talking about a single thing, we almost always use it. However, there are a few exceptions. We may sometimes refer to an animal as he/him or she/her, especially if the animal is domesticated or a pet. Ships (and some other vessels or vehicles) as well as some countries are often treated as female and referred to as she/her. Here are some examples:
  • This is our dog Rusty. He's an Alsation.
  • The Titanic was a great ship but she sank on her first voyage.
  • My first car was a Mini and I treated her like my wife.
  • Thailand has now opened her border with Cambodia.
For a single person, sometimes we don't know whether to use he or she. There are several solutions to this:
  • If a teacher needs help, he or she should see the principal.
  • If a teacher needs help, he should see the principal.
  • If a teacher needs help, they should see the principal.
We often use it to introduce a remark:
  • It is nice to have a holiday sometimes.
  • It is important to dress well.
  • It's difficult to find a job.
  • Is it normal to see them together?
  • It didn't take long to walk here.
We also often use it to talk about the weather, temperature, time and distance:
  • It's raining.
  • It will probably be hot tomorrow.
  • Is it nine o'clock yet?
  • It's 50 kilometres from here to Cambridge. 
 Possesive Adjective : also known as possessive determiners, are a part of speech that modifies a noun by attributing possession (or other sense of belonging) to someone or something. In english, the words my, your and her are examples.
Possessive adjectives/determiners can eliminate repetition in a sentence by replacing a   determiner phrase (or in other analyses, a noun pharase). They allow us, for example, to say the girl took off her glasses instead of the girl took off the girl's glasses.
Forms
Possessive adjectives commonly have similar forms to personal pronouns. In addition, they have correspondingc possessive pronouns, which are also phonetically similar. The following chart shows the English, Gers\man, and French personal pronouns, possessive adjectives, and possessive pronouns (masculine nominative singular only).
Possessor English German French
Pers.
pron.
(obj)
Poss.
adj.
Poss.
pron.
Pers.
pron.
(gen)
Poss.
adj.
Poss.
pron.
Pers.
pron.
(dat)
Poss.
adj.
Poss.
pron.
Singular 1st me my mine meiner mein meiner me mon le mien
2nd you your yours deiner dein deiner te ton le tien
3rd masc. him his his seiner sein seiner lui son le sien
fem. her her hers ihrer ihr ihrer
neut. it its (its) seiner sein seiner
Plural 1st us our ours unser unser unserer nous notre le nôtre
2nd you your yours euer euer eurer vous votre le vôtre
3rd them their theirs ihrer ihr ihrer leur leur le leur


4. The Uses and Forms of Demonstrative Pronouns
Demonstratives are deictic words (they depend on an external frame of reference) that indicate which entities a speaker refers to and distinguishes those entities from others. Demonstratives are employed for spatial deixis (using the context of the physical surroundings of the speaker and sometimes the listener) and for discourse deixis (including abstract concepts) where the meaning is dependent on something other than the relative physical location of the speaker, for example whether something is currently been said or was said earlier.
The demonstratives in English are this, that, these, those, yonder, and the archaic yon, possibly followed by one(s) in the case of pronouns, as explained below.

 

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