Matakuliah
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Pertemuan 3
S-V Agreement
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Learning Outcomes
Pada akhir pertemuan ini, diharapkan mahasiswa
akan mampu :
• Mengidentifikasi Subyek sebuah kalimat
sederhana
• Menuliskan bentuk kata kerja
(singular/plural) yang sesuai dengan
subyeknya
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Outline Materi
• Subyek
• Noun dan pronoun
• Verbs: plural and singular (present tense)
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A simple sentence
• As we recall a complete sentence should
have at least a subject and a verb. The
following are simple sentences:
– I sleep.
– The Sun shines.
– The baby is crying.
– We were hungry.
– Sheila sings (in the bathroom).
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Single and Plural Subjects/Verbs
• The Subject and Verb of a sentence
should agree with each other, especially in
Present Tenses.
– I drink.
– She/He/It drinks.
– You/We/They drink.
– I am happy.
– She/He is happy.
– You/We/They are happy.
(I, she, he, it, you, we, they, are Pronouns)
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Pronouns
• Sometimes the subject may not look that simple.
For example:
Simon, Paula, and Jeff
All the students in that class
The tree in front of my house
My brother and I
Pronouns are words to replace nouns and proper
names (like Simon, Hong Kong, CNN, etc.). So,
Simon, Paula, and Jeff  they
All the students (in that class) they
The tree (in front of my house)  It
My brother and I  We
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Verbs
In Simple Present Tense the verbs
vary according the subject.
–She runs.
–She is hungry.
In Simple Past Tense:
– She ran. They ran. My brother ran.
– She was hungry. (Here there is an S-V
agreement too.)
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Rule for spelling
• Some verbs change spelling when they
are added by –s or –es for he/she/it. For
example, the verb ‘cry’
– I cry
– She/he/it cries
– They/we/You cry
• Also for the verbs ‘try’, but not ‘buy’.
• Can you find other examples?
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Conclusions
• Every sentence should have a subject and
a verb;
• The subject and the verb should agree;
• Especially in Present Simple Tense, the
verb will vary according to the subject;
• Some verbs will change spellings in the
present simple;
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