Mempelajari
bahasa inggris tentu tidak terlepas dengan yang namanya grammar atau tata
bahasa, yang mana mewajibkan kita untuk memahami pola kalimat berdasarkan
tenses yang ada. Untuk dapat sepenuhnya paham, tentu diperlukan latihan yang
rutin sehingga kita dapat memahami penggunaannya.
Nah,
di edisi kali ini, mimin akan ngebahas beberapa soal grammar dan juga
penjelasannya. So, let’s check it out!!
1. Tiger moths __________ wings marked
with stripes or spots.
(A) have
(B) with
(C) their
(D) whose
My answer: The correct answer is A. Have, because the
subject is plural which is Tiger Moths
2. Designed by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi,
the____________
(A) United
States was given the Statue of Liberty by the people of France
(B) people
of France gave the Statue of Liberty to the United States
(C) Statue
of Liberty was given to the United States by the people of France
(D) French
people presented the United States with a gift, the Statue of Liberty
My answer: The right one is C, because designed by it
means the subject is not Frederic, so we need to fill it with The statue of
Liberty as the subject of the sentence.
3. Martha Graham, ____________ of the pioneers of modern
dance, didn’t begin dancing until she was 21.
(A) who,
as one
(B) she
was
(C) one
(D) was
one
My answer: The correct one is C. One, because we
need to add Appositive to make the sentence clear as it is to describe the
subject and verb.
Part 2. Directions:
a. Identify
the wrong part of the sentence!
b. Explain
why it is wrong!
c. Suggest
the correct substitute!
4. R. Buckminster Fuller was a design, an architect ,
an inventor, and an engineer.
Design is a noun where the sentence need to filled by
profession because it reflected to the subject. So the incorrect one is Design,
it should be Designer.
5. Goats are extremely destruction to natural vegetation and
are often responsible for soil erosion.
Destruction is a noun, where according to the sentence
after the adverb extremely we need to put adjective. So it must be changed by
Destructive.
6. Pearls are found in much colors, including cream, blue ,
lavender, and black.
The incorrect one is Much, because Pearls is something
that is countable and it is not abstract. So, we need to change it with “Many”.
7. Snowshoes let a person to walk on
snow without sinking into it because they distribute
the person’s weight over a wide area.
The incorrect one is to walk, because
it supposed to be Walking. As it is to describe the situation that’s going to
be happen later, in connection with the subject which is
Snowshoes.
8. Eggs
may be boiling in the shell, scrambled, fried,
and cooked in countless other ways.
The incorrect one is Boiling because it is describe the
process, where the next words is in the shell in which we need the word which
show how’s the process. It should be Boiled.
Itulah beberapa contoh soal grammar dan juga
penjelasannya, semoga artikel kali ini bermanfaat. Tetap semangat untuk kita
semua yang sedang berjuang menggapai mimpi kita saat ini, because there’s
nothing useless. Sampai jumpa di artikel selanjutnya.. JJJ
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