Concord/ Subject-Verb Agreement

Concord/ Subject-Verb Agreement

Defenition

                Concord adalah penyesuaian antara subject dan predikat. Jika subjectnya singular(tunggal) maka predikatnya pun juga singular. Jika subjeknya plural maka predikatnya juga plural (jamak).

  Hubungan antara subjek dan predikat

Subject	Predicate
	To do	To be	To have	Present
He, she, it	Does	Is,was	Has	Comes
You, we, they	Do	Are,were	Have	Come
i	do	am	have	Come

Contoh

a)      The profesor is writing a report on the table.

b)      Novel contains information about experience live.

c)       Martin and riski have finished their homework.

Kata-Kata Berikut Diangap Singular Sehingga Harus Di Ikuti Oleh Singular Predikat

Contoh:

a)      Something problems on your foot now

b)      Nobody studies in  this class

c)       Everybody loves rizki

d)      Each of teacher likes hot coffea

Kata Yang Tidak Mempengaruhi Subjek Dan Predikat

ü  Accompanied By

ü  As well as

ü  Along with

ü  Together with

Contoh

1.       martin, together with rizki, is performing on tv now

2.       Martin, accompanied by his wife and children,orders pizza every weekend

Jika subjeck dan predikat dibatasi oleh preposional pharase (sekelompok kata yang dimulai dengan kata depan), Kata depan itu tidak Mempengruhi Hubungan subjeck dan predikat

Contoh

a)      The effect of this medicine are very obvious after one hour

b)      Your theories on mathematics have been considered good by a lot people

c)       The ideas in the book are not interesting

Kata Benda Yang Mempunyai Bentuk Plural Yang Mempunyai Bentuk Jamak Tidak Beraturan.

Man                     -              Men	Child                 -    children
Mouse                 -              Mice	Ox                     -    Oxen
Foot                     -              feet	Foot                  -    feet
Tooth                   -              teeth	Goose                -     geese
Woman                -             women

Contoh

a.      I have one child, but my sisters has two children

b.      My child has four teeth

Kata benda yang mempunyai bentuk singular dan pluralnya yang sama

Deer Fish Means series

Sheep

Contoh :

I see a deer over there

Two sheep are sleeping

Kata benda yang selalu prural :

Glasses	pliers	Trousers
Jeans	Shoes	Shorts
scissors	Shocks	Pants

My shoes are new

The scissors have been bought

Pronoun (kata Ganti)

Subjective Pronoun	Objective pronoun	Possesive adjective	Possesive pronoun	Reflexive pronoun
I	Me	My	mine	Myself
You	You	Your	Your	Yourself
He	Him	His	His	Himself
She	Her	Her	Hers	Herself
It	It	Its	-	Itself
We	Us	Our	Ours	Ourselves
They	them	their	Theirs	themselves

Contoh :

This is your book

They do the home work themselves

Its tails it black

Either/neither/ not only/ both

-                  Either……or……..(salah satu)

-                  Neither…...nor…….(tidak keduanya)

-                  Not only……but also…….(tidak hanya tapi juga)

-                  Both……..and……..(keduanya)

    Yang diangap subjek adalah noub yang terdekat dengan verbnya.

Contoh

1.              Either martin or his friends go swimming every week

2.            Not only they but also john goes swimming every week