Bismillahirrahmanirrahim
Let’s
scream together
“English,
Yes we like it, Yes we do really love it”
Nice to meet you in the step 2. We are still
talking about English. Wow, you look so interesting. This is going to be good.
Hope we can catch every single word, ameen.
Guys, perhaps we are confused from what we
shall begin our material to learn English. Is it from structure or grammar,
from vocabulary, reading text book, listening, or other kinds of English part?
Don’t be confused! I shall give an illustration.
A baby who was born to the world, s/he was
nothing. All of what s/he needed was always helped by her/his parents. Till one
day, s/he for the first time tried to do something in her/his life. Do you know
what was it? A baby tried to follow what her/his parent spoke to each other.
You can see around you, a baby said “momma, momma!”
Yep,
you get that point. To learn language for the first time, we should learn the
words or more specific is the vocabularies. After you master some of
vocabularies in language which you learn, then you will understand to practice
it with its grammar. Well, not too difficult right? Before focusing our material
in the step 2, let us smile . . . ^_^
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Hmmm,
do you need a dictionary? Sure, because you learn foreign language. I suggest
you not to use electric dictionary. We can find many expensive dictionaries
that you can buy. But do you know the best dictionary to learn? “Oxford Dictionary” If you want to get maximal, you
should use this dictionary. Actually the words or vocabularies, you can seek
them by yourself, this is impossible for me to tell you all words here, so
much. Perhaps, you go somewhere and you bring a dictionary and you see a thing
around you which makes you curious of it. Eg, it is ‘cabang pohong’ therefore
you look for it in the dictionary, it is called ‘branch.’ Wahoo! You have got
one word. Then what will you do later on? Yep, try to memorize it and use it in
a sentence when you speak to other people!
Lovely friends, now I am going to tell you
kinds of words and phrases. There are eight kinds of words and five kinds of
phrases in English. What are they? Let me tell you
Eight classes of words:
- Verb (v/V) :
verb in Indonesia is kata kerja
Eg: decide, tie, surrender, cry, etc
- Noun (N) :
noun in Indonesia is kata benda
Eg: balloon, pestle, traffic sign, book, etc
- Adjective (Aj) :
adjective in Indonesia is kata sifat
Eg: beautiful, hectic, noisy, clever, etc
- Adverb (Av) :
adverb in Indonesia is kata keterangan
Eg: badly, easily, often, soon, etc
- Determiner (d) :
determiner in Indonesia is penentu
Eg: a, very, the, my, this, etc
- Pronoun (Pn) :
pronoun in Indonesia is kata ganti
Eg: something, its, you, him, etc
- Conjunction (Cj) :
conjunction in Indonesia is kata sambung
Eg: because, therefore, if, but, etc
- Preposition (p) :
preposition in Indonesia is kata depan
Eg: for, with, by, at, etc
And if you say the word, so you will know
what kinds of word that you say. Don’t need to memorize these word classes,
just try to understand it. Well, I will let you know the classes of phrases.
But I want to ask you first, do you know what phrase mean? Phrase is the words
which consists more than one word but phrase is not a sentence. Again, I will ask you to smile. Let’s smile
. . . ^_^
Five classes of phrases:
- A verb phrase (VP) :
is the words which takes from verb and followed or modified by auxiliary or more auxiliaries in front of the ordinary verb
Eg: don’t know
Explanation: know here is a head that modified by don’t. Don’t here is an auxiliary as a modifier. It is meant that a person who said ‘don’t know’ is s/he wanted to tell that s/he really don’t know
- A noun phrase (NP) :
is the words which takes from the noun and followed or modified by determiner and/ adjective in front of the noun
Eg: an interesting game
Explanation: an here is a noun adjunct, means that an becomes an adjective here. Interesting here is an adjective that modified games because game is a head. It is meant that there is a game which is very interesting. Here the writer mostly wants to tell about the game
- An adjective phrase (AjP) :
is the words which takes from the adjective and followed or modified by adverb in front of the adjective
Eg: most greedy
Explanation: most here is an adverb and greedy here is an adjective as a head. Most is as modifier of greedy. So that we can see that the writer wants us to know s/he mostly wants to tell about greedy
- An adverb phrase (AvP) :
is the words which takes from the adverb and followed or modified by adverb in front of the adverb
Eg: very beautifully
Explanation: very and beautifully are an adverb but very here is as modifier of beautifully and beautifully is as a head. So that, we are as a reader have to be able to catch that the writer mostly wants to tell about beautifully
- A prepositional phrase (PP) :
is the words which takes from the prepositional and follows or modifies a noun phrase
Eg: for a long week
Explanation: a long week, as we know it is a noun phrase where week is as head of a (is a noun adjunct then becomes adjective) and long (is an adjective). A long week is followed or modified by for and for is as modifier of a long week. Here we can get the point that is the writer mostly wants to tell about week, that the week is very long.
Hmmm, I guess you read with your big spirit.
Is this interesting, isn’t this? Yahoo, I am so happy because our material or
lesson is very nice. Very easy, very simple. Well, but I have to stop our
lesson. Don’t worry, we will face again in another time. Just say for the last
time, English is fun. ^_^
