EXPLAIN ABOUT TENSES, SINGULAR AND PLURAL, AND PRONOUN

ABOUT VERB TENSES

(PRESENT, PAST AND FUTURE TENSE)

1.      Present tense   : The verb shows actions that happens regularly.

Example          : Deni plays football with Ikbal.

2.      Past Tense       : The verb shows action that happened.

Example          : I wrote a letter for my Grandma.

3.      Future Tense   : The verb shows action that will happened.

Example          : Lina will sing to us.

ABOUT SINGULAR AND PLURAL

1.       Singular noun  : Used to refer to one object only.

Example          : A computer, a chair, a train, a player, a teacher, etc. (A computer still  turn on)

2.       Plural noun      : Used to refer to more than one subject.

Example          : Books, Cars, Boys, Girls, etc. (There are some books)

ABOUT PRONOUN

1.      Pronouns are used in place of a noun that has already been mentioned or that is already known, often to avoid repeating the noun.

a.       Personal Pronoun  : Personal pronouns are used in place of nouns referring to specific people or things, for example I, me, mine, you, yours, his, her, hers, we, they, or them.

b.      Reflexive: Reflexive personal pronouns include myself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, and themselves. ( I fell and hurt myself).

c.       Possesive Pronoun  : The personal pronouns mine, yours, hers, his, ours, and theirs are known as possessive pronouns: they refer to something owned by the speaker or by someone or something previously mentioned. (That book is mine)

Sumber tambahan : http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/pronouns#possessive_pronouns

               

CERPEN BAHASA INGGRIS

WHERE ARE MY FRIENDS GOING?

(Agung Jatmiko)

            That morning, Sava and Sigi just reached the school gate. They were accompanied by their father. But they were suddenly confused they saw their friends did not go to school. “Where are Intan and Bayu going?” Sava asked Sigi coriously. “Why are they not going to school?” Instead, they went with a Stranger?” answered Sigi with the same curiousity. “Lets tell our teacher about this!” asked Sigi. “Yeah… I hope Intan and Bayu are okay!” hoped Sava. After getting the report from Sigi and Sava, their teacher and the security guard soon run after Intan and Bayu.

            Fortunately, they were safe. The stranger was then arrested bye the policeman. “I suddenly became unconscious after the woman patted me on the shoulder,” Intan said. “She said she would buy us candy and snacks,” Bayu added. “Oooh it means Intan and Bayu were Hypnotized,” Being hypnotized means someone makes you unconscious to do whatever she or he ask you to,” she explained. “But why were Bayu and Intan hypnotized by the stranger?” asked Sava. “Hmmm…maybe the stranger wanted to kidnap Bayu and Intan,” answered the security guard. “The kidnapper would ask some money to free them, or she would seize their money,” he explained.

            After the incident, Intan and Bayu eventually be more careful. Finally they are always accompanied his parents went to school and they wait until the school bell rang. As well as Sigi and Sava, they finally know about the kidnapper and more careful. Thery are always come and go from school together, in order to avoid the kidnapper.

            One day, in Sava bedroom. Her mom tells about the kidnappers. His mother recounts “That morning, on one of the school, there was an old man who kidnaps a child. Then he took the little boy into a very dirty house in a village. He let te boy starve, and the child eventually died of starvation,”.