Comma – Tanda Baca Koma (,) – PART 1

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Kita telah mengetahui salah satu fungsi periods (titik), sekarang saatnya kita mempelajari comma (koma). Mengapa sih kita harus mempelajari koma? Hehe.. dalam menulis, pengetahuan mengenai tanda baca harus benar-benar kita kuasai; salah satu tanda baca yang sering muncul dalam teks bahasa Inggris adalah koma jadi kita wajib memahaminya. (Kalo nulis di blog bisa karep dewek ya :)

Kita pasti sadar bahwa menulis narrative text, descriptive text, recount text, atau teks lainnya, tidak hanya butuh keakuratan isi tulisan saja, tapi juga memerlukan keakuran penulisan tanda baca. Jadi mari kita lanjutkan pembahasan mengenai koma ini….

Kapan tanda baca koma (,) digunakan? Ini dia jawabannya :

1. Ketika dua independent clause digabung dengan satu coordinative conjunctions (for, and, nor, but, or, yet) gunakan koma sebelum coordinative conjunctions-nya.

Contoh :

• The airplanes were built for acrobatics, and the pilots were highly skilled.
• You love me, but I do not love you.

2.  Koma (,) digunakan untuk memisahkan elemen pembuka dari main clause kalimat utama. Salah satu elemen pembuka paling umum adalah Participial Phrase. (Ving)

Contoh :

• Driving as quickly as they could, Bill and Kathy arrived just in time to pick me up.
• Being hungry, Jimmy went to a restaurant.

3.  Jika ada dua klausa (dependent clause dan independent clause) dalam satu kalimat dimana dependent clause terletak di awal kalimat (sebelum main clause), koma digunakan ditengah-tengah keduanya.

Contoh :

• Although the movie was boring, we stayed until the end.
• If you keep criticizing me, I will ignore you.

4.  Koma digunakan untuk memisahkan beberapa kata-kata pembuka seperti No, Yes, Oh, Ah, atau well, dll.

Contoh :

• No, I can’t imagine why Stacy did this to us.
• Well, you may have another piece of candy if you will brush your teeth afterward.

5. Koma digunakan untuk memisahkan elemen kalimat pernyataan dengan question tag.

Contoh : 

• You are counting on me, aren’t you?
• That concert was incredible, don’t you think?

Untuk sementara,  5 saja dulu penjelasan mengenai koma (,) ini. Selebihnya (kira-kira masih ada 11 penjelasan lagi) bisa kita bahas lebih lanjut pada pertemuan mendatang (semoga saja).

Untuk mempermudah memahami kelima penjelasan di atas, coba pahami beberapa contoh di bawah ini :

1.    I have learned many books, but I can’t speak English fluently.
2.    Having breakfast, he went to school.
3.    If you want to be rich, you should work harder.
4.    Do you speak English? Yes, I do.
5.    You love this story, don’t you?

Mungkin dari kelima contoh di atas, hanya nomor 2 saja yang masuk kategori paling sulit dipahami. Ya, karena nomor 2 itu adalah salah satu materi grammar tingkat advanced. Kapan-kapan semoga saja bisa dibahas….

Referensi

Coghill, Jeffrey and Magedanz, Stacy. 2003. English Grammar. New York: Willey Publishing, Inc.

Preparing for National Examination Practice - Class IX 2012

fill the blanks while listening to the song

If only you could ...... the tears

in the world you left behind
If only you could ...... my heart

just one more time
Even when I close my eyes
There's an ....... of your face
And once again I come to realise
You're a loss I can't replace

Soledad
It's a keeping for the .........
Since the day that you were gone
Why did you ...... me
Soledad
In my heart you were the only
And your memory lives on
Why did you leave me
Soledad

Walking down the streets of Nothingville
Where our love was young and .......
Can't believe just what an empty place
It has ...... to be
I would give my life away
If it could only be the same
Cause I can't still the voice ........ of me
That is calling out your name

Soledad
It's a keeping for the ........ *
Since the day that you were gone
Why did you ......... *me
Soledad
In my heart you were the only
And your memory lives on
Why did you leave me
Soledad

Time will never ........ the things you told me
After all we're ......... to be love

will bring us back to you and me
If only you could see

Soledad
It's a keeping for the .......... *
Since the day that you were gone
Why did you ............ * me
Soledad
In my heart you were the only
And your memory live on
Why did you leave me
Soledad

image     lonely     come      heal        leave  see              free        inside     meant  change

ujian praktik kelas IX April 2012

can you find the funny part of this story?

FIRST JOB

 

"A young family moved into a house, next to a vacant lot.

One day, a construction crew turned up to start building a house on the empty lot.

The young family's 5-year-old daughter naturally took an interest in all the activity going on next door and spent much of each day observing the workers.

Eventually the construction crew, all of them "gems-in-the-rough," more or less, adopted her as a kind of project mascot.

They chatted with her, let her sit with them while they had coffee and lunch breaks and gave her little jobs to do here and there to make her feel important.

At the end of the first week, they even presented her with a pay envelope containing ten dollars.

The little girl took this home to her mother who suggested that she take her ten dollars "pay" she'd received to the bank the next day to start a savings account.

When the girl and her mom got to the bank, the teller was equally impressed and asked the little girl how she had come by her very own pay check at such a young age.

The little girl proudly replied, "I worked last week with a real construction crew building the new house next door to us."

"Oh my goodness gracious," said the teller, and will you be working on the house again this week, too?"

The little girl replied, "I will, if those as*!#!es at Home Depot ever deliver the fu*#'ng sheet rock..."

this task for class 7, try to get the song and fill the blanks!

I can ........ the pain living in your eyes
And I ........ how hard you try
You deserve to have so ......... more
I can feel your heart and I ..........
And I'll never criticize all you've ever meant to my life

I don't want to let you .............
I don't want to lead you on
I don't want to hold you ..........
From where you might belong
You would ........... ask me why
My heart is so disguised
I just can't live a ....... anymore
I would rather hurt myself
Than to ever make you ......

There's ......... left to say but good-bye
You deserve the chance at the kind of ............
I'm not sure I'm worthy of
Losing you is ............... to me

You would never ask me why
My heart is so disguised
I just can't live a ....... * anymore
I would rather hurt myself
Than to ever make you .......... *
There's .......... * left to try
Though it's gonna ......... us both
There's no other way than to say ............

Cry                  never              back down                 sympathize    much  

know               See                  lie

nothing           love             painful

hurt                 good-bye

5 ways to develop critical thinking in ICT

How do you encourage pupils and students to think critically in the context of educational technology? Although we can devote a lot of time and energy to setting up the "right environment", I can't help thinking that really it all comes down to some pretty simple questions, and very straightforward approaches. Suspect everyone and everything! as a general rule, the teacher needs to encourage a critical approach by walking the talk. That means being open to an other-than-expected answer from students. All too often, a teacher will ask a question, and go round the class until they get the "right" answer.  To take a really simple example, if you ask a class what sort of software you would use to write a letter, how do you respond to a child who answers "a spreadsheet"? It would be good to know why they think that. It could be a lack of knowledge, or it could be a completely mistaken set of assumptions. On the other hand, it could be a logical idea.