NOUNS
Nouns (kata benda) merupakan kata-kata yang mengacu pada person, place, object, feeling/idea, activity, atau quality. Nouns berperan sebagai subject, object atau complement dalam kalimat.
Perhatikan kalimat berikut:
- Many students study vocabulary by repeating the words.
- Long-term memory is like a very big library with many books.
- A thing of a beauty is a joy forever.
- Islam is one of the major world religions.
- You can also make a picture in your mind with the word.
(Kata students mengacu pada person.
Kata memory, library dan books mengacu pada object. Kata
Islam mengacu pada feeling/idea. Sedangkan kata mind mengacu
pada place)
Exercise:
Underline nouns and mention whether
they are place, object, feeling/idea, activity, or quality. Do as
examples.
- Thedentist check his patient tooth. ___person___
- The sky seemed to be full of parachutes. ____place______
- Geometry is the study of shapes and configuration. ___________________
- The car is old and parked in the yard. ________________
- Happiness is the best feeling. ___________________
- The boring speech lasted nearly one hour. ___________________
- The first mathematics textbooks were written in English in 1540. ___________________
Beberapa nouns ditandai dengan
penggunaan huruf kapital seperti Holly Book, Public Library, Indonesia,
Muhammad, dan Batusangkar yang disebut dengan proper nouns. Sementara kata-kata
seperti library, book, word, picture, dan sentence disebut
dengan common nouns kecuali di awal kalimat.
Exercise:
Complete the following sentences with correct
form of nouns in parentheses. Do as examples.
- Mama and I will go to the lake next month. (lake or Lake)
- Aunt Jo went to Lake Placid for the weekend. (lake placid, Lake placid or Lake Placid)
- We live near the ____________. (city or City)
- My ___________ gave us a homework assignment. (teacher or Teacher)
- Is __________________ a strict teacher? (Mr. brown or Mr. Brown)
- My dog, _____________ likes to play fetch with a tennis ball. (buster or Buster)
- At the zoo, we saw a gorilla named ______________. (grumpy or Grumpy)
- That girl lives on ___________________. (adam street, Adam street, or Adam Street)
- Dad's birthday is in _______________. (january or January)