Thursday, March 8, 2012

Subject-Verb Agreement


Tugas 1 & 2 Bahasa Inggris Bisnis 2


  •  Subject


The subject is one of the two main constituents of a clause, according to a tradition that can be tracked back to Aristotle and that is associated with phrase structure grammars, the other constituent is the predicate. According to another tradition, i.e. the one associated with predicate logic and dependency grammars, the subject is the most prominent overt argument of the predicate. Both traditions see the subject in English governing agreement on the verb or auxiliary verb that carries the main tense of the sentence, as exemplified by the difference in verb forms between he eats and they eat.
The subject has the grammatical function in a sentence of relating its constituent (a noun phrase) by means of the verb to any other elements present in the sentence, i.e. objects, complements and adverbials.
          The subject is a phrasal constituent, and should be distinguished from parts of speech, which, roughly, classify words within constituent.



  •  Verb

       A verb, from the Latin verbum meaning word, is a word (part of speech) that in syntax conveys an action (bring, read, walk, run, learn), an occurrence (happen, become), or a state of being (be, exist, stand). In the usual description of English, the basic form, with or without the particle to, is the infinitive. In many languages, verbs are inflected (modified in form) to encode tense, aspect, mood and voice. A verb may also agree with the person, gender, and/or number of some of its arguments, such as its subject, or object. 
        And verb divided into 2:
Irreguler Verb

















 
Reguler Verb

















  • Example

    1. I am a Doctor
    2. She can play drum well
    3. She drank a glass of milk this morning
    4. I have finished my project this afternoon
    5. She buys a book 
    6. My mother is cooking five different meals for our special guests
    7. We don’t smoke 
    8. We will defeat him soon 
    9. John had bought a luggage full of clothes
    10. I must wake up earlier tomorrow       

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