Prepositional Phrase, Participal Phrase, Invinitive Phrase, dan Gerund Phrase

 Prepositional Phrase, Participal Phrase,  Invinitive Phrase, dan Gerund Phrase

       

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     Berdasarkan kata – kata pendahulunya  (introductory words or pivot words), phrase dapat diklasifikasikan menjadi 4 macam, yaitu :

                1. Prepositional Phrase.

                2. Participal Phrase.

                3. Invinitive Phrase.

                4. Gerund Phrase.

                1. Prepositional Phrase

    Prepositional Phrase adalah ungkapan yang mengandung preposisi (kata depan), dan  biasanya dapat dipakai / berfungsi sebagai Noun, Adjective, atau Adverb.

                e.g :

1. The report will be sent in a few days. 2. He is sometimes angry with his wife. 3. I’m sorry fo having come late. 4. The traffic sign points to the left.

                2. Participal Phrase

    Participal Phrase adalah ungkapan yang mengandung participle yang biasanya berfungsi sebagai adjective.

                e.g :

1. Not knowing anyone in town,  he felt very lonesome. 2. Having finished his assigment, he went home. 3. Having lost all my  money, I went home. 4. Students arriving late will not be permitted to enter the lecture hall.     (Arriving late menjelaskan student). 5. We heard the children crying.

     Arti atau pengertian dari kalimat yang mengandung participal phrase dapat menunjukkan :

                1. Waktu

                   a.         after   (  sesudah   )

                                Having finished all the work, she went home.

                                (Sesudah menyelesaikan semua pekerjaan, dia pulang)

                    b.        While or When   (   ketika   )

                                Walking along the street, I met a friend whom I had not seen for a long time.

                                (Ketika berjalan sepanjang jalan, saya bertemu teman yang telah lama saya tidak berjumpa).

                2. Cause   (  sebab   )

                     Having worked hard all his life, he decided to take a long vacation.

                     (Karena telah bekerja keras sepanjang hidupnya, maka dia mengambil liburan panjang)

   Tetapi kadang – kadang dapat juga menunjukkan pengertian waktu dan sebab bersama – sama.

                Misalnya :            Having eaten  too much, he became sleepy.

                                                Menunjukkan sebab      : karena makan terlalu banyak.

                                                                Sesudah         : makan terlalu banyak.

                                                                Maka              : dia menjadi mengantuk.

   Perhatikan beberapa contoh berikut ini :

                1. Needing some money to buy a  book, Asma cashed a check. (because he needed some money to buy a book, Asma chased a check).

                2. Being unable to afford a car,  she bought a bicycle. (because she was unable to afford a car, she bought a bicycle).

                3. Invinitive Phrase.

   Invinitive Phrase adalah adalah ungkapan yang mengandung infinitive dan infinitive phrase dapat digunakan atau berfungsi sebagai Noun, Adjective, atau Adverb.

                e.g :

                Infinitive phrase sebagai Noun :

                1. To read books means to enlarge one’s horizons.

                2. To see his children again will make him happy.

                3. To learn English, you must have intention and practice every day.

                4. To ask more money would  be wrong.

                5. To do that is difficult for me.

                Infinitive Phrase sebagai Adjective :

                1. He wanted clubs to juggle acrobatically.

                2. The poison was strong enough to have killed ten people.

                3. He is a good man for you to know.

                Infinitive Phrase sebagai Adverb :

                1. He read to enlarge his horizons.

                2. He has been warned not to do that again.

                3. I had opened to see her soon.

                4. Gerund Phrase

    Gerund Phrase adalah ungkapan yang mengandung gerund , dan biasanya hanya berfungsi hanya sebagai Noun.

                e.g :

1. Reading books enlarges one’s horizons. 2. Playing with guns is dangerous. 3. Taking a long walk every day is good exercise. 4. Cleaning house every day is not necessary. 5. The  broadcasting by that station comes from the top of a skyscraper.

   

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