The Eight Parts of Speech

The Eight Parts of Speech

The Eight Parts of Speech adalah bagian-bagian dasar dalam kalimat bahasa inggris. Adapun kontenya yaitu, noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, conjunction, adjective, interjection, dan preposition.

1.         Noun (Kata Benda)

Noun digunakan untuk menamai orang, benda, tempat, dan konsep abstrak.

Macam-macam noun antara lain : countable noun, uncountable noun, proper noun, common noun, collective noun, abstract noun dan concrete noun.

Contoh : book, books, fruit, apple, air, sugar, teacher, Mrs.Vera. etc

2.         Pronouns (Kata Ganti)

Prounoun digunakan untuk mengantikan noun. Yang bertujuan untuk menghindari repetisi penggunaan noun. Berikut ringkasnya...

Pronouns
Subject	Object	Possessive	reflexive	Possessive Adjective
I	Me	Mine	Myself	My
You	You	Yours	Yourself	Your
They	Them	Theirs	Themself	Their
We	Us	Ours	Ourselves	Our
He	Him	His	Himself	His
She	Her	Hers	Herself	Her
It	It	Its	Itself	Its

Contoh : 1. She likes homework (ps), 2. the teacher give me homework (po), 3. This homework is yours (pp), 4. John did homework himself (pr), 5. The teacher corrected our homework (ppadj).

3.         Verb (Kata Kerja)

Verb digunakan untuk menujukan tindakan dari subject. Macam-macam verb antara lain: transitive dan intransitive verb, regular dan irreguler verb, action dan stative verb, finite dan non-finite verb, linking verb, dan causative verb. Contoh : to work, work, works, worked, working.

4.         Adjective (Kata Sifat)

Adjective digunaakan untuk menerangkan noun atau pronoun.

Contoh : 1. Vera is a beautiful girl. 2. I am angry with you.

5.      Adverb (Kata Keterangan)

Adverb digunakan untuk menerangkan verb, adjective, maupun adverb lain. Macam-macam adverb antara lain : adverb of time (yesterday, now, etc), adverb of manner (quickly, slowly, nearly, softly, etc), adverb of degree (very, so), adverb of modality (likely, maybe), adverb of place (here, somewhere, at school, etc), adverb of frecuency (always, somtimes, seldom, often), dan adverb of focus (also, only).

Contoh : 1. they met by chance yesterday. 2. I always sleep. 3. She goes to school quickly

6.      Preposition (Kata Depan)

Preposition digunakan atau dikombinasikan dengan noun atau pronoun untuk membentuk frasa/kalimat yang menerangkan verb, noun atau adjective. Kata preposition (on, in, for, to, under, before, about, above, among, around, as, or, at, between, by, but, during, except, following, inside, near, into, like, of, off, from, outside, per, unlike, with, up, without, beside, after, through, since, than, until, etc.)

Contoh : 1. She lives in Italia. 2. Puji is looking for you. 3. The letter is under your book.

7.      Conjunctions (Kata Penghubung)

Conjunction digunakan untuk menghubungkan dua kata, frasa, klausa, paragraph. Kata conjunctions (and, but, or, nor, for, yet, so, although, because, since, then, either, however, after)

Contoh : I like the car, but I do not have money to buy it

8.      Interjections (Kata Seru)  

Interjections itu ucapan pendek untuk meluapkan emosi. Kata interjections (ah !, alas, oh..., ouch !..oh my god !! wacth out !

Itulah delapan bagian-bagian dasar dalam kalaimat bahasa inggris yang biasa disebut dengan the eight parts of speech, memanglah sangat perlu kita paham dan mengerti terlebih dahulu tentang materi ini agar menjadi ajeg dan pakem ketika lebih jauh belajar materi bahasa inggris yang lainya semisal, grammar, structure, writing. Semoga bermanfaat tulisan singkat ini.