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Bab 8

Tenses

A. Present Tense
Catatan
a. Simple Present Tense
Fungsi: • Tambahan s/es pada kata kerja
bentuk pertama (V ) berlaku untuk
1. Menyatakan kebiasaan (habitual action). 1
Contoh: subjek orang ketiga tunggal (She,
Rudi eats with right hand. He, It, Tom, Anne).
Rudi makan menggunakan tangan kanan. • I She
You He
2. Menyatakan fakta (fact) dan kebenaran
umum (general truth). We do It does
Contoh: They Tom
The sun rises in the east. Tom & Anne Anne
Matahari terbit di sebelah timur. • Time marker (keterangan waktu):
3. Menyatakan kegiatan yang dilakukan secara always, usually, seldom, never,
teratur. often, sometimes, rarely, every....,
Contoh: once/twice/a day/a week/a
My father plays football twice a week. month/a year...., etc.
Ayah saya bermain sepak bola dua kali • I → am She
seminggu. You He is
We are It
They

Rumus:
Kalimat verbal (kata kerja berupa verb) Contoh:
(+) Subject + Predicate (V ) + Object/Comp. Kalimat verbal
1 s/es
(–) Subject + do/does + not + V + Object/Comp. (+) She goes to school every morning.
1
(?) Do/Does + Subject + V + Object/Comp. (–) She does not (doesn’t) go to school every
1
morning.
Kalimat nominal (kata kerja berupa to be) (?) Does she go to school every morning?
(+) Subj + Predicate (to be: is, am, are) + N/ Yes, she does.
Adj/Adv No, she does not (doesn’t).
(–) Subj + (am, is, are) + not + N/Adj/Adv
(?) (Am, Are, Is) + Subj + N/Adj/ Adv

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