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14 comments
Nilla Kristina
June 20, 2010
Aq pengen bisa berbhs inggris! Bhs ingris aq jelek bgt.
Swara Bhaskara
June 23, 2010
Keinginan (desire) merupakan salah satu motivator dalam belajar bahasa Inggris. I’m glad to know that you’ve already had such a desire. First of all, however, I’d like to know how I can help you.
aulya ambarwati
July 6, 2010
What can i do to make my english be better? what step first? ( klo aku nulisnya salah mohon dikoreksi)
Swara Bhaskara
July 6, 2010
Keep practicing what you’ve got as you do right now! Don’t concern too much about making mistakes, however, always try your best! The corrections or suggestions you receive will stay in your memory for a long time and these will make your English better and better.
NOTE:
1. Pola-pola penggunaan verb MAKE antara lain:
S + MAKE + O + ADJECTIVE (Perhatikan: BE tidak dibutuhkan sebelum adjective).
I will make you happy forever.
What can I do to make my English better?
jika adjective-nya berupa verb3:
S + MAKE + O + verb3.
She always makes me disappointed.
Begitu juga, jika setelah obejct diikuti oleh passive voice:
S + MAKE + O + verb3 by….
My behaviour made myself kicked out of the class by the teacher.
Tetapi jika setelah object diikuti active voice, gunakan simple form verb (verb1, tanpa e/es)
S + MAKE + O + verb1.
I will make her apologize to me.
2. “What first step” kekurangan be dan the atau possessive adjective.
What is the first step?
What is my first step?
Welcome aboard, Aulya.
aulya ambarwati
July 9, 2010
please give me a reason, why in sentence “she always makes me disappointed”, word make using s behind? thanks
Swara Bhaskara
July 9, 2010
The verb “make” should be added an “s” if the subject is singular, such as, she, he, it, and nouns that can be replaced by she, he, or it. In Indonesian, we call these kinds of subject “orang ketiga tunggal“. Its simple present tense pattern is as follows:
Singular subject + verb1+s/es + ……
For instances:
She makes me happy. (Dia membuatku bahagia)
He loves me. (Dia mencintaiku).
It grows fast. (Dia tumbuh dengan cepat).
The plant grows fast. (Tanaman itu tumbuh dengan cepat).
My mother lulls me every night. (Ibuku meninabobokanku tiap malam).
As you can see, “the plant” and “my mother” are followed by a singular verb (i.e. verb1+s/es) because they can be replaced by “it” and “she“, respectively.
Always, along with other adverb of frequencies, such as, often, usually, seldom, never, etc., DOES NOT affect such a pattern although it is placed in the middle of a sentence.
Singular subject + adverb of frequency + verb1 s/es +….
By using the above examples, we will have the following sentences,
She always makes me happy. (Dia selalu membuatku bahagia)
He seldom loves me. (Dia kadang-kadang mencintaiku).
It never grows fast. (Dia tidak pernah tumbuh dengan cepat).
The plant never grows fast. (Tanaman itu tidak pernah tumbuh dengan cepat).
My mother always lulls me every night. (Ibuku selalu meninabobokanku tiap malam).
defi
August 3, 2010
Hello Sir, how are you? i want to know how about use serious and seriously. Intinya sir, apa yang perlu ditambahkan (ly) pada sebuah kata.example serious—>seriously. thank a lof for the answer sir.
Swara Bhaskara
August 3, 2010
I’m fine. Thank you.
Serious is an adjective while seriously is an adverb. Adjectives are used to modify nouns/pronouns. They can be placed before a noun, or after a linking/stative verb. In contrast, adverbs are used to modify non-linking verbs, adjective, or other adverbs. They are mostly placed after the object of the sentence, however, they can also be placed before a verb, or in the beginning of a sentence.
You are a serious person. (Kamu adalah orang yang serius).
You do things seriously. (Kamu mengerjakan segala sesuatu dengan serius).
In the first sentence, the adjective serious modifies the noun person, while in the second one, the adverb seriously modifies the verb do.
A. You look so serious. What are you thinking?
B. I am thinking of breaking up with him.
A. Are you serious?
B. Yes, I am. Actually, I have been thinking about this for months.
NOTE: In A, the adjective serious modifies the pronoun you, not the verb look. Here, the verb look is a stative verb.
A. Look at her seriously!
B. Why?
A. Because she’s got what you’re looking for.
B. I am staring at her now. My heart’s beating hard. Now what?
A. Approach her slowly, then seriously tell her how much she means to you!
NOTE: In A, the adverb seriously modifies the verb look. Here, the verb look is a non-linking (active) verb.
A. She got a serious injury.
B. She was seriously injured.
C. Was she very seriously injured?
NOTE: In C, the adverb very modifies the adverb seriously. (Sorry, I can’t come up with an example in which seriously modifies another adverb).
How to determine whether a verb is a linking/stative verb or non-linking verb/active verb has been discussed here.
ghastly
August 15, 2010
Hello Mr. swara…..
I am student university of serang raya…
I am interesting with your blog….
your blog is very good..
and I want to learn about english, because english is very important for me,…
would you like to teach me, coz i want to know more about english…
and how to speak up with fluently???
i need your help Mr…
I always confuse, how to remember many vocabulary…
Thank you…
Swara Bhaskara
August 16, 2010
Great writing, Ghastly. How could I help you?
For a starter, the following are my suggestions to your writing.
I am a student at the University of Serang Raya…
I am interested in your blog….
I am always confused of how to remember my vocabulary…
Please compare yours to mine! If you’re not certain with their discrepancies, please don’t hesitate to discuss them further. Thank you.
ghastly
August 16, 2010
Yeah….
Thank you for your corretion, Mr..
I am very happy you have corrected my sentences.
Now I have new teacher.
How do you do to increase your vocabulary and prounoncation…
as you know, I am always confused of how to remember my vocabulary…
sometime I nerves if I was tell something to foreigner.
Please give me clue to increaseing my english in conversation..
Thank you…
Swara Bhaskara
August 17, 2010
How to expand your English Vocabulary?
Read stories or novels or whatever you like the most! Reading interesting stories will indirectly force yourself to look up the words you don’t understand on your dictionary. Besides, those new words will stay longer in your memory due to the impressions you get from the stories. My writing entitled “Mengapa Kemampuan Bahasa Inggris Saya Tidak Kunjung Meningkat” covers methods of how to expand your vocabulary, to improve your pronunciation, and, hopefully, to boost your confidence to talk to foreigners.
boobycybernet
October 14, 2010
HI, Mr.swara. I’m bobby. i need your help about my English conversation. It’s so difficult for me, because i always use both of my partition in my brain, which One for Indonesian, and English for other.
Besides, I wanna know how to increase my listening ability. Because, i have problem if my speaker talk faster than me.
(hehehe,.. please correct my message if there have a fault grammar. Thanks before)
Swara Bhaskara
October 14, 2010
Hi Bobby,
1. How to speed up your conversation?
You mentioned about using two partitions, so I guess you’ve already read this. Don’t worry! It’s just the beginning. To make you feel better, try this! Repeat the main pattern of the first sentence but replace either its subject, its verb, its object, or its modifier to make the second, the third, the forth sentence and so forth. For instance,
A. Budi wants to go to the mall. Anita wants to go to the mall. Alisa wants to go to the mall. Everybody wants to go to the mall, but I.
B. I’ve read the math. I’ve read the physics. I’ve read the chemistry. It’s time for me to watch TV now.
2. How to improve your listening skill?
You’ve got to believe this. When I first moved to Sulawesi, I could hardly follow the way native people in Sulawesi talked. Yeah, it was too fast for me. I even got this kind of problem although I was still in Indonesian land. Hehehe… My point is that sometimes we’ve already known about the language but because we haven’t got used it yet, we might run into a problem. To cope with it, don’t run away from it because sooner or later you’ll get used to it.
SUGGESTIONS TO YOUR WRITING:
1. Partition should be in plural form, partitions.
2. “which One for Indonesian, and English for other” could be “one is for Indonesian and the other one is for English“.
3. my speaker talk faster than me.???
What you probably meant was “my speaker is too fast for me“.
4. “if there have a fault grammar” should be “if it has a faulty grammar“.