Contoh soal: adjectives vs adverbs, articles and others
By Swara Bhaskara on October 25, 2010 • 17:15 16 Comments
Contoh soal berikut ini menguji pemahaman anda tentang penggunaan like vs alike, pronouns, adjectives vs adverb, article (kata sandang), embedded questions, dan conjunctions (connectors) .
Direction: Choose the underlined word(s) that need(s) to be corrected according to the standard written English.
1. The biggest mistake people can make with their dogs is to treat them alike humans.
- A. Their B. Is C. Them D. Alike
2. The test materials were developed by the centrally government and tested to all school in Indonesia.
- A. Materials B. By C. The centrally government D. In
3. The officially reason for the delay of their flight to Singapore is the bad weather.
- A. Officially B. For C. The D. Is
4. The newly-built fashion boutique near my house has more then ten employers.
- A. The newly-built fashion boutique B. Has C. Then D. Employers
5. The man was released after the police realized that he was wrong convicted of drug smuggling.
- A. Was released B. That C. He D. Wrong
6. Jakarta, a capital city of Indonesia, is the most populous city in Southeast Asia.
- A. a B. Is C. Populous D. In
7. None seems to know when will the bus arrive at the bus stop.
- A. Seems B. Will C. Arrive D. The
8. Both Agung as well as Wawan eat all the time but they never get fat.
- A. As well as B. Eat C. But D. Fat.
By : Mnth3b3st
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16 comments
Swara Bhaskara
August 8, 2010
1. The biggest mistake people can make with their dogs is to treat them alike humans.
D. Alike. It should be like.
2. The test materials were developed by the centrally government and tested to all school in Indonesia.
C. The centrally government. It should be the central government.
3. The officially reason for the delay of their flight to Singapore is the bad weather.
A. Officially. It should be official.
4. The newly-built fashion boutique near my house has more than ten employers.
C. then atau than ???? Kalau then, opsi ini yang paling salah. Tapi, kalau than, yang salah adalah D. Employers. It should be employees (buruh/pegawai). Makna yang disampaikan di sini adalah lebih dari 10 buruh, bukan lebih dari 10 perusahaan yang memperkerjakan. Jika kalimatnya, “I work at PT. Swarabhaskara“, maka, “My employer is PT. Swarabhaskara“.
5. The man was released after the police realized that he was wrong convicted of drug smuggling.
D. Wrong. It should be wrongly.
6. Jakarta, a capital city of Indonesia, is the most populous city in Southeast Asia.
A. a. It should be the, karena ibukota negara cuma ada satu. Bandingkan dengan kalimat berikut:
Negara, a small city in western Bali, is where I was born. CORRECT
7. None seems to know when will the bus arrive at the bus stop.
B. Will. Posisi will salah karena ini merupakan embedded question. It should be “…when the bus will arrive…“.
8. Both Agung as well as Wawan eat all the time but they never get fat.
A. As well as. It should be and. Pasangan dari both adalah and. Kalau both dihilangkan, kalimatnya menjadi “Agung as well as Wawan eats all the time but he never gets fat.
mnth3b3st
August 9, 2010
tolong di jelasin pembahasan soal no 2,3 dan 5.
Kenapa centrally harus di ganti central,officially harus di ganti official dan wrong harus di ganti wrongly?
Tolong di jelaskan juga kalimat ini.
The newly-built fashion boutique.
Apakah kalimat di atas benar? Kalau benar apa alasannya?
Swara Bhaskara
August 9, 2010
Noun dapat dimodify (diterangkan) oleh satu adjective atau lebih, yang umumnya diletakkan sebelum noun:
Di pola ini, adjective1, adjective2, dst, langsung menerangkan noun.
Contoh:
new three-story house. (rumah yang berlantai tiga (dan) baru)
big, tall guy. (cowok yang tinggi (dan) besar)
Sekarang bandingkan dengan pola berikut:
Di pola ini, adverb menerangkan adjective, baru kemudian adverb-adjective ini menerangkan noun.
Contoh:
very big house. (rumah yang sangat besar)
extremely deadly poison. (racun yang sangat mematikan)
newly built house. (rumah yang baru dibangun).
Kalau adjective1 adalah adjective murni (big, tall, beautiful, dst), kita perlu hati-hati dalam menentukan apakah di depannya harus digunakan adjective2 atau adverb. Dalam hal ini, kita harus paham konteksnya. Sebaliknya, kalau adjective-nya menggunakan verb (baik present maupun past participle), maka kita tidak perlu ragu lagi karena di sini kita akan selalu menggunakan adverb untuk menerangkan adjective tersebut.
NOTE: Noun tidak pernah secara langsung diterangkan oleh adverb.
1. centrally government INCORRECT karena centrally adalah adverb. Di sini kita butuh adjective. Begitu juga di officially reason.
2. Convicted adalah verb3. Apakah verb3 ini berfungsi sebagai adjective atau verb phrase dari kalimat pasif, dua-duanya diterangkan oleh adverb.
3. newly-built fashion boutique? Dari uraian di atas, seharusnya kita tidak ragu lagi dalam menentukan mana yang benar antara newly dan new.
mnth3b3st
August 9, 2010
kenapa dari phrase ini.
Newly-built fashion boutique dan new three-story house ada tanda hubungnya?
Dan dari soal no 7
seems to know
apa benar seems bisa di ikuti infinitive?
Swara Bhaskara
August 10, 2010
1. Hyphen (tanda hubung) umumnya digunakan untuk:
a. menghubungkan angka puluhan di atas 20 (e.g. twenty-one, fifty-five)
b. mengekspresikan angka pecahan (e.g. one-fourth = 1/4, two-third =2/3)
c. memenggal kata di margin kanan halaman
d. menggabungkan 2 adjective dengan satu makna (e.g. three-story house, ten-page essay)
Tapi, sepengetahuan saya, hyphen tidak digunakan untuk menggabungkan adverb (e.g. adjective+ly, many, much, too, little, dst) dengan adjective. So, tidak perlu ada hyphen di “newly- built fashion boutique“.
Lantas, apa fungsi hyphen?
Hyphen digunakan untuk mempermudah pembaca untuk memahami bacaan. Kalau misalnya kita tulis,
He has one three story house (Dia punya sebuah rumah berlantai tiga),
pembaca mungkin beranggapan:
a. Salah ketik. Three seharusnya tidak ada karena sudah ada one dan nounnya (house) adalah singular. Menurut pembaca ini, kalimatnya seharusnya “He has one story house” (Dia punya sebuah rumah berlantai satu), yang maknanya berbeda dengan yang kita maksudkan.
b. Salah ketik. One seharusnya tidak ada dan noun house perlu diimbuhi s, menjadi “He has three story houses” (Dia punya tiga rumah bertingkat…?), yang maknanya juga berbeda dengan yang kita maksudkan.
Kalau kita kembali ke soal no 4, mana yang paling salah dari soal tersebut? Saya tetap dengan jawaban sebelumnya. Ada yang punya pendapat lain?
2. Yes, seem dapat diikuti oleh infinitive. Benar kalau kita bilang, “None seems to know ….“. Dalam hal ini, kita juga bisa bilang, “It seems that none knows….”
mnth3b3st
August 10, 2010
saya mau tanya soal lagi.
1. . . .you know the secret,the more insecure your life would be.
A. The further
B. The farther
C. The furthest
D. The farthest
2. I like all abstract paintings. . .by famous painters especially Affandi.
A. Drawing
B. Drawn
C. Which are drawing
D. Which draw
untuk soal nomor 1
saya tanyakan guruku katanya soal ini menggunakan double comparatives polanya.
The+comparative+S+V+the+comparative
dan jawabnya A. The further. Tolong di perjelas lagi pak bhaskara soal penjelasan guruku ini!
terus kenapa would be pada kalimat itu di letakkan di belakang kalimat pak?bukankah would be itu verb phrase?
Untuk soal no.2
menurut saya itu passive voice tapi kok tidak ada to be nya ya pak?
Swara Bhaskara
August 11, 2010
1. Pertama-tama saya koreksi kalimatnya sedikit, dari would be menjadi will be, agar konsisten dengan tensis di clause 1, menjadi:
The further you know the secret, the more insecure your life will be.
Ya benar. Ini adalah double comparative. Sedikit yang bisa saya tambahkan di sini (untuk diperhatikan agar tidak error), antara lain:
a. Jangan lupa menggunakan the, baik di comparative di clause 1 maupun di comparative di clause 2. INCORRECT kalau:
Further you know the secret, the more insecure your life will be.
The further you know the secret, more insecure your life will be.
Further you know the secret, more insecure your life will be.
b. Jangan lupa menyisipkan tanda koma diantara clause 1 dan clause 2.
c. Jika comparative di clause 1 kita tempatkan di awal clause, maka agar parallel, kita juga harus menempatkan comparative di clause 2 di awal clause 2, dan begitu juga sebaliknya. INCORRECT kalau:
The further you know the secret, your life will be more insecure.
If you know the secret further, the more insecure your life will be.
Kenapa will be pada kalimat itu diletakkan di belakang kalimat? Bukankah will be itu verb phrase?
Pada prinsipnya, makna kalimat di atas sama dengan:
If you know the secret further, your life will be more insecure.
Perhatikan clause 2! Subjectnya adalah “your life” dan verbnya adalah “will be“, sedangkan comparative “more insecure” adalah modifier yang menerangkan “your life“. Karena kita tempatkan “more insecure” ini di awal clause, urutan subject + verb tidak berubah.
2. Benar bahwa adjective clause-nya adalah dalam passive voice, yang lengkapnya adalah:
I like all abstract paintings that/which were drawn by famous painters especially Affandi.
Mereduksi adjective clause dalam passive voice lumayan gampang, yaitu dengan menghapus relative pronoun (that, which, who) dan to be sehingga menyisakan verb3 saja. So, jawaban dari soal di atas seharusnya: B (drawn)
I like all abstract paintings drawn by famous painters especially Affandi.
Tambahan:
Kalau adjective clause-nya dalam active voice, kita hilangkan relative pronoun kemudian kita rubah verbnya kedalam bentuk verb-ing.
The person who called me a minute ago was my cousin.
The person calling me a minute ago was my cousin.
Everybody who learns English everyday will have a high English proficiency near in the future.
Everybody learning English everyday will have a high English proficiency near in the future.
Kalau clausenya dalam present continuous dan past continuous, kita hapus relative pronoun dan to be-nya.
The girl who is staring at you apparently likes you.
The girl staring at you apparently likes you.
liwet
December 22, 2010
hello mr.swara..for more detail,i need you to explain about this sentence adopted from the title on CNN News:Americans get nearly 20 years for (sexually abusing) Haitian boys”.berfungsi sebagai apakah kata “sexually” dan “abusing” disini?thank you:-)
Swara Bhaskara
December 22, 2010
Hi Liwet,
for sexually abusing + object (i.e. Haitian boys).
Here, abusing is a gerund, and sexually is an adverb that modifies “abusing”.
Another example:
Thanks for helping me.
Helping is also a gerund. As in your example, to modify this gerund, we need an adverb.
Thanks for eagerly helping me.
liwet
December 22, 2010
mr.swara, thanks for eagerly helping me.
Swara Bhaskara
December 23, 2010
You’re welcome.
win
January 8, 2011
“Everybody who learns English everyday will have a high English proficiency near in the future.” very nice quote sir . your word has being inspired me
iim
January 29, 2011
Mr.bhas.. I do love to read how your explaining was about our questions
Relate to reduce adjective clause topic, is it correct, if i write :
- i like to listen all love songs sung by gita gutawa
- everyone frequently reading and continously practicing Mr.bhaskara’s blog surely will have improver skill at their english
Swara Bhaskara
January 30, 2011
Correct adjective clause reductions. Great!
iim
January 29, 2011
eh wait, I mean “your explaination”
mr.bhas, i must be using wrong grammars please correct the others
iim
January 30, 2011
thank you for your correction