Jumat, 01 Mei 2015

Question Tags

Question tags are short questions were added at the end of the statement (declarative sentence) to ask for information or request approval.

Formula :
linking verb “be”/auxiliary verb +/- not + pronoun

Specification :
- linking verb "be", namely: is, am, are, was, were, while the primary form of the auxiliary verb auxiliary verb (be, do, have) or modal auxiliary verb (will, would, may, may, MIGHT, can, could, shall, should) matching the verb in the statement.
- Adapted to the subject pronoun in the statement.

Example :
-Winnie  usually gets the bus to college, doesn’t she?
-Irfan’s on holiday until next Monday, isn’t he?
-I’m trying to tell you what happened, aren’t I?

Source :
http://www.wordsmile.com/pengertian-rumus-contoh-kalimat-question-tags

Causative Have/Get

HAVE = give someone else the responsibility to do something
Grammatical structure:
-HAVE + PERSON + VERB (base form)
-HAVE + THING + PAST PARTICIPLE OF VERB

Examples of grammatical structure #1:
-I’ll have my assistant call you to reschedule the appointment.
-The businessman had his secretary make copies of the report.
Examples of grammatical structure #2:
-I’m going to have my hair cut tomorrow.
-We’re having our house painted this weekend.
-Bob had his teeth whitened; his smile looks great!
-My washing machine is broken; I need to have it repaired.
Note: In informal speech, we often use get in these cases:
-I’m going to get my hair cut tomorrow.
-We’re getting our house painted this weekend.
-Bob got his teeth whitened; his smile looks great!
-My washing machine is broken; I need to get it repaired.

GET = convince/encourage someone to do something
Grammatical structure:
GET + PERSON + TO + VERB

Examples:
-How can we get all the employees to arrive on time?
-My husband hates housework; I can never get him to wash the dishes!
-I was nervous about eating sushi, but my brother got me to try it at a Japanese restaurant.
-The non-profit got a professional photographer to take photos at the event for free.

source :
http://www.espressoenglish.net/causative-verbs-in-english-let-make-have-get-help/

Reflexive Pronouns & Determiner

A. Reflexive Pronouns
The reflexive pronouns (which have the same forms as the intensive pronouns) indicate that the sentence subject also receives the action of the verb. (Students who cheat on this quiz are only hurting themselves. You paid yourself a million dollars? She encouraged herself to do well.) What this means is that whenever there is a reflexive pronoun in a sentence there must be a person to whom that pronoun can "reflect." In other words, the sentence "Please hand that book to myself" would be incorrect because there is no "I" in that sentence for the "myself" to reflect to (and we would use "me" instead of "myself"). A sentence such as "I gave that book to myself for Christmas" might be silly, but it would be correct.

Be alert to a tendency to use reflexive pronoun forms (ending in -self) where they are neither appropriate nor necessary. The inappropriate reflexive form has a wonderful name: the untriggered reflexive. "Myself" tends to sound weightier, more formal, than little ol' me or I, so it has a way of sneaking into sentences where it doesn't belong.
            -Bob and myself I are responsible for this decision.
            -These decisions will be made by myself me.
            -If you have any questions, please contact myself me or Bob Jones.
When pronouns are combined, the reflexive will take either the first person
            -Juanita, Carlos, and I have deceived ourselves into believing in my uncle.
     or, when there is no first person, the second person:
            -You and Carlos have deceived yourselves.
The indefinite pronoun (see above) one has its own reflexive form ("One must have faith in oneself."), but the other indefinite pronouns use either himself or themselves as reflexives. (There is an entire page on the pronoun one.) It is probably better to pluralize and avoid the clumsy himself or herself construction.
            -No one here can blame himself or herself.
            -The people here cannot blame themselves.

B. Determiner
Determiners is the position of word in front of nomina (nouns) to function as noun markers to explain mean of kata benda kata.
Example :
Guitar if you add determiners those, those guitar, we will know the guitar means.
This is some about determiners :

A. Possessives
Example   : your, her, my, his, their, our, its, my parents', whose, dll.
1. His shoes is in the bedroom at three days ago
2. My friends’ is in my parent’s house since morning

B. Quantifier
Example  : A few, much, many, a little, some, any, every, each, dll.
1. Every university student have to good experience
2. Many people needs money to life
3. Some noodle is produced from Indonesian

C. Artikel (a, an, dan the)
1. Playing an games in rest time is good for our mood
2. The good gadget is a iphone still available at the electronic shop
3. A newspaper this morning is about National Examination In Senior High School

D. Ordinal number/bilangan bertingkat : 1st, 2nd, 3rd, dll.
1. The first winner of X Factor Indonesia is Fathin Shidqia
2. My name of second brother is Ilham Syafar Darmawan

E. Demonstrative (this, that, these, those, etc)
1. This basketball used by my friends in Junior High School
2. These view in bromo mount is very beautiful

F. Number/angka: one, two, three, dll.
1. Two books has been bought by my father
2. Two Contestan of Indonesian Idol has been eliminated


source :
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/pronouns1.htm
http://www.ef.co.id/englishfirst/englishstudy/determiners-dalam-bahasa-inggris.aspx