Kamis, 23 Februari 2012

Simple Future Tense

Simple Future Tense used to express occurrence/activity to happened/to be done in the future,do 10 minutes or 1 hour to come ,tomorrow ,the day after tomorrow ,next week,next month ,next year,and so on.If past tenses express occurrence/activity after now ( time past ) ,tenses future simple express occurrence /activity before now.
( time future).
Positive Tenses

Introductory It

In this pattern, it has no meaning. It is used only to fill the cubject position in the sentence. thus, it is called introductory “it”.

Introductory “it” as a subject:
A : To watch musical programs is pleasent.
B : It is pleasent to Watch musical program
Introductory it with seem, appear and look

Introductory it is also used with seem, appear and look when the subject is an infinitive phrase with a gerund ini t or a clause.

Asking if Someone Remember or not

Formal expressions:
Ø I wonder if you remember.....
Ø You remember...., don’t you?
Ø You haven’t forgotten...., have you?
Ø Don’t you remember.....?
Ø Do you happen to remember it now?

Ways to respond:

Preposition In, On, and At

In preposition of time We use:
•at for a PRECISE TIME
•in for MONTHS, YEARS, CENTURIES and LONG PERIODS
•on for DAYS and DATES
at in on

PRECISE TIME MONTHS, YEARS, CENTURIES and LONG PERIODS DAYS and DATES

Senin, 20 Februari 2012

Noun Phrase

A noun phrase (NP) is a phrase whose head is a noun or a pronoun, optionally accompanied by a set of modifiers.
 This means that one noun or pronoun can be grammatically functioned as NP.
 For the NP modifer, there are 2 kinds considering by its position:
 1. pre-modifier (modifier which is placed before the noun)
 2. post-modifier (modifier which is placed after the noun)
 The NP pattern is simple in normal sentence and imperative mood, but it’s much harder in question form with inversion.

Invitation (Written)

Invitations is a request to somebody to do something or go somewhere. in a invitation , there are the date, time and place of the event. Sometimes there is also R.S.V.P which means “please reply”.

Finite Verb

Definition of Finite verb
1.Also called a main verb
2.A verb that has a subject
3.A verb that shows tense, person, and number
4.Can be the main verb in a sentence
Moods in Finite Verb
1).Indicative mood (expressing a state of affairs)
Example : The tea is hot.
2).Imperative mood (giving a command)
Example : Make the tea hot.
3).Subjunctive mood (expressing something that might or might not be the state of affairs, depending on some other part of the sentence)
Example :If the tea was hot, I would drink it.