Senin, 23 April 2012

PREPOSITION IN, ON, AND AT

PREPOSITION IN, ON, AT

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VOCABULARY AROUND THE HOUSE

Vocabulary Around The House


     attic
  • basement
  • bathroom
  • bathtub
  • bed
  • bedroom
  • blanket
  • book shelf
  • ceiling
  • chair
  • chest of drawers
  • closet
  • coffee table
  • couch
  • cupboard
  • desk
  • door
  • dryer
  • entrance
  • floor
  • furniture
  • garden
  • hallway
  • house
  • kitchen
  • living room
  • microwave
  • mirror
  • oven
  • pillow
  • radio
  • refrigerator
  • rocking chair
  • room
  • sink
  • stove
  • table
  • television
  • toilet
  • vacuum cleaner
  • wall
  • washer
  • window

Other Rooms
Attic People : store things in the attic.
Ballroom   :A room in stately homes where rich people dance and concerts are held.
Box Room A small room : used for storage. Cellar Underneath the house.
Cloakroom  : A small room where people put their coats.
Conservatory  : A greenhouse attached to a house for the display of plants.
Dining Room :  A room where people eat.
Drawing Room :  A room in stately homes where rich people entertain.
Games Room : A room in large houses where games are played.
Hall :  The entrance passage to a house.
Larder :  A small room used for the storage of food.
Library :  A room where books are kept.
Lounge  : Another name for living room.
Music Room : A room where people play music.
Office :  A room where people work.
Pantry :  A small room used to store kitchen and dining items.
Parlor : Old fashioned word for living room.
Sitting Room  :Another name for living room.
Spare Room
Guest Room :  A room where guests sleep.
Toilet  : A room where people go to the toilet (often known as WC)
Utility Room :  A room where appliances such as washing machines are used. Things you may                 find around the house

PASSIVE VOICE

Passive Voice


      In the passive sentence, the object of an active verb becomes the subject of the passive verb.
Only transitive verbs are used in the passive. Intransitive verbs such as happen, sleep, come and seem cannot be used in the passive.

Asking if Someone Remembers or Not

Asking if Someone Remembers or Not


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

OFFERING

Definition of Offering :
1. The act of making an offer.
2. Something, such as stock, that is offered.
3. A presentation made to a deity as an act of religious worship or sacrifice; an oblation.
4. A contribution or gift, especially one made at a religious service.

SIMPLE FUTURE

Simple future is used for describing job or action that will happened in the future. Simple future has two different forms in English: “will” and “be going to”.

Positive (+)
a) S + shall/will + V1
Example:
• I shall write a novel.
• They will play football.
• I will go to the market.

b) S + be + going + to + V1
Example:
• I am going to write a novel.
• They are going to play badminton.
• Deli is give a present to me.

Negative (-)
c) S + shall/will + not +V1 + O
Example:
• I shan’t write a novel.
• She won’t clean the room.
• You will not help him later.
• I will not take a nap soon.

d) S + to be + not + going to + V1 + O
Example:
• I am not going to party.
• He is not going to visit his grandparents next month.
• We are not going to clean the classroom.
Interrogative
e) Will + S + V1 + O
Example:
• Will you arrive on time?
• Will they want dinner?
• Will he swim very fast?

f) To be + S + going to + V1
Example:
• Am I going to visit my aunt?
• Are you buying a shirt?
• Is he going to write a novel?

Use of simple Future
1. Use “will” to express a voluntary action
Examples:
• I will send you the information when I get it.
• I will translate the email, so Mr. Smith can read it.
• Will you help me move this heavy table?

2. Use “will” to express a promise
Examples:
• I will call you when I arrive.
• I promise I will not tell him about the surprise party.
• I won’t tell anyone your secret.


3. Use “be going to” to express a plan
Examples:
• He is going to spend his vacation in Bandung.
• I’m going to be an actress when I grow up.
• She is not going o spend her holiday in Jakarta.

4. Use “will” or “be going to” to express a prediction
Examples:
• The year 2212 will be a very interesting year.
• The year 2212 is going to be a very interesting year.
• Tukul Arwana will be the next president.

NOUN PHRASES

NOUN PHRASES
 

noun is a word that names a person, animal, place, thing, idea, or concept, or anything considered as noun
The Noun examples
Persons: girl, boy, instructor, student, Mr. Smith, Peter, president
Animals: dog, cat, shark, hamster, fish, bear, flea
Places: gym, store, school, Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota, village, Europe
Things: computer, pen, notebook, mailbox, bush, tree, cornflakes
Ideas: liberty, panic, attention, knowledge, compassion, worship

The Functions of Nouns in Sentences
1.Subject of the sentence
2.Predicate Noun (also Predicate Nominative or Subjective Complement)
3. Appositive (noun in apposition)
4. Direct object of a verb
5. Indirect object of a verb
6. Object of the preposition
7. Object Complement (Objective Complement)

Gerunds can also be classified as noun
For example:
• I like swimming.
The word ‘swimming’ is a gerund

PHRASES
• A phrase is a group of related words that lacks both a subject and a predicate. Because it lacks a subject and a predicate it cannot act as a sentence.
• A noun phrase consists of a pronoun or noun with any associated modifiers, including adjectives, adjective phrases, and other nouns in the possessive case.
• Like a noun, a noun phrase can act as a subject, as the object of a verb or verbal, as a subject or object complement, or as the object of a preposition, as in the following ...
• Small children often insist that they can do it by themselves.


A noun phrase is either a single noun or pronoun or a group of words containing a noun or a pronoun that function together as a noun or pronoun, as the subject or object of a verb.