Subject & Verb Agreement
Di
dalam English Grammar, Subject and Verb agreement merupakan hal yang penting,
dikarenakan berhubungan dengan penyusunan sebuah kalimat (Grammatical) dan
pengungkapan (pronounciation). Subject terbagi 2 yakni Subject pronoun singular
(tunggal) dan Subject pronoun Plural (jamak), berikut table yang menunjukkan
klasifikasinya :
Singular
|
Plural
|
I
|
We
|
He, She, It
|
They
|
You
|
|
Khusus
untuk Subject “You”, pada basicnya merupakan Plural, namun pada kondisi
tertentu dapat menjadi Singular,
tergantung pada konteks kalimatnya.
· Dua atau lebih subjek yang dihubungkan oleh “and” berarti
berbentuk plural. Kecuali untuk subjek “every” dan “each.”
Jika
terdapat kalimat yang subject-nya memakai Each / Every, maka verb yang
digunakan adalah verb singular.
Example :
-
Every man, women, child needs love.
-
Each book and magazine is listed
in the card catalog.
·
Jika terdapat kalimat berbentuk noun + prepositional
phrase, cara menentukan bentuk verb-nya dilihat dari bentuk noun-nya.
Example :
- The food in the
restaurant is delicious. (Singular)
- The foods in the
restaurant are delicious. (Plural)
- The book on the table is
mine. (Singular)
- The books on the table are
mine. (Plural)
·
Jika pada kalimat terdapat kata some of, a lot of, none of, half
of, dan most of, maka bisa
menjadi singular tetapi bisa juga menjadi plural, hal ini
tergantung padanoun-nya.
Example :
- Some of the book is good.
(Singular)
- Some of the books are good.
(Plural)
- None of my brother is arrogant.
(Singular)
- None of my brothers are arrogant.
(Plural)
- Half of student in
this class is diligent. (Singular)
- Half of students in
this class are diligent. (Plural)
- Most of my cat is tame.
(Singular)
- Most of my cats are tame.
(Plural)
·
Jika pada kalimat terdapat kata each of, every of, dan one of maka diikuti oleh plural noun,
namun verb tetap singular.
Example :
-
Each of my friends is here. (Singular)
-
Every of my projects is interesting.
(Singular)
-
One of my brothers is not here.
(Singular)
·
The number (Singular) - A number (Plural)
Example :
-
The number of students in my class is thirty-three.
(Singular)
-
A number of students were late
for class. (Plural)
“the number” merupakan subjek.
“A number” merupakan sebuah
ungkapan kuantitas yang bermakna“banyak.”
Tugas
- Some of the fruit in this bowl is rotten.
- Some of the apples in that bowl are rotten.
- Most of the movies are funny.
- Half of this money is yours.
- A lot of clothing in this stores is on the sale this week.
- Each of the boys in the class has his own notebook.
- None of the animals at the zoo are free to room.
- The number of employees in my company is approximately ten thousand.
- Does all of this homework have to be finished by tomorrow?
