Tense (noun): a verb-based method used to
indicate the time, and sometimes the continuation or completeness of an action
or state in relation to the time speaking. In English there are three basic
tenses: present, past and future. Tense consist of complete sentence. Complete
sentence consist of subject (S), predicate (P), object (O) and complement (C).
example:
1.
She
is watching TV now
S P O C
2.
She is smart
S P C
# Find the wrong word of the sentence
bellow!
1. Arizona
have a
very dry climate.
S P C
Is there anything
wrong with the sentence above?
The answer is YES.
Let’s take a look, ‘Arizona’ is singular, so you must use ‘HAS’ not ‘HAVE’.
2.
The
first steamship to across the Atlantic were
the Savana in
1819.
S P O C
Is there anything
wrong with the sentence above?
The answer is YES.
Let’s take a look, the subject of the sentence is ‘Steamship’ and ‘Steamship’
is singular, so you must use ‘WAS’ not ‘WERE’. And because the sentence is past
tense.
3. My
friend, Haris, is attending the meeting.
S P C
Is there anything
wrong with the sentence above?
The answer is NO.
The sentence above is a correct sentence.
4. Advertising provide most of the income for magazine, newspaper,
radio, and television in Indonesia today.
S P
C
Is there anything
wrong with the sentence above?
The answer is YES.
Let’s take a look. If there’s (Subject + ing) just remember that is will always
a singular. In the sentence above,
‘advertising’ is a singular, so the ‘Provide’ should be ‘PROVIDES’.
Subject
Subject is the person or a
thing who or which carries out the action of the verb.
Example :
1.
Oxygen is
essential for life on earth.
2.
John F.
Kennedy was elected as US President in 1960.
3.
Honesty is the best policy.
4.
Horses are
majestic animals.
5.
When
students travel to US, they usually go by air.
Predicat
The predicate in a sentence is
what tells about what a person or a thing does or did or what happened to a
person or to a thing?
The predicate must (1) agree in
number with subject, (2) have the correct tense and (3) be in the proper voice
{active or passive}.
Example :
• Monkeys are destroying the
garden.
In the above sentence, the word “monkeys” is subject. Whereas the
phrase “are destroying” is the predicate. And the
word “the garden” is the object.
• Mr. Clinton is teaching
Algebra to the students
In the above sentence, the word “Mr. Clinton” is the subject. The
phrase “is teaching” is the predicate. The words “Algebra
& The students” are objects.
Object :
The object is the person or a thing upon whom or
upon which the action of the verb iscarried out.
• Monkeys are destroying
the garden.
In this sentence the action is “destroying”.
That action is carried by the monkeys. But the action
(destroying) is carried upon the garden. So “Monkeys” is the
SUBJECT and “GARDEN” is the object of the verb.
Sumber:
http://www.english-for-students.com/Subject-Object-Predicate.html
Nama : Hastyn Haula Ulfah
Kelas : 3EB10
