English Sentence Construction
Sentence is a unity of words that providing a meaning. Sentence contains two parts. They are subject and predicate. Therefore sentence begin with a capital letter(for example;A) and stopped with a dot(.)
In the teaching and learning process, the teacher “ classroom teacher “ usually teches the sentence by the following steps:
A. introducing kind of sentences
B. introducing the forms of the sentence
C. introducing the elements construction of the sentence
D. providing an oral and written test
Introducing kind of sentences
Teaching the seventh grade learners (SMP ) need more effective ways, because the students will be boring while the teacher teaches them through the theory of the sentence. Therefore the teaching material will be useless. So the teacher must begin his teaching by associate mother tounge and target language (English). So far, I am a classroom teacher try to apply my own way for comprehending my students. I begin with the general ways. I give them a Pattern used in the indonesian and english culture, look the example;
Indonesia
1. Buku baru
2. Buku berwarna merah yang baru
English
1. Baru buku (new book)
2. Yang berwarna merah baru buku ( a new red book)
Based on the examples above, I conclude that the structure used is quiet different. In Indonesia, We use ( DM) Diterangkan Menerangkan (look google translate) rule, but in English, we use (MD) Menerangkan Diterangkan (look google translate) rule. This situation mest be known by the the students, it reminds them to be able to write the sentence correctly.
In the next running time, I also tell them the kind of the sentences. Commonly, there are two kind of sentence. They are verbal and nominal . verbal sentence demands the acquisition of verb (action verb), such as ; infinitive, preterite, past participle. Otherwise, niminal sentence demands the use of be and auxiliary verb (present and past form). Be for instance; is, am, are, was, were and been. In addition, auxiliary verb can be; can, may, must, shall, will, do, did, does, had.
Introducing the forms of the sentence
The forms of the sentence is taught to the students after they had been learning the pattern of the sentence construction. By simply way, the teacher can write the form of the three simple sentences forms, such as; affirmative, negative, and interrogative sentences. Look at the examples below;
Simple sentence (use be and action verb)
Affirmative
Mother cooks rice. ( ibu memasak nasi )
Mother is in the kitchen ( ibu berada di dapur )
Negative
Mother doesnot cook rice. ( ibu tidak memasak nasi )
Mother is not in the kitchen ( ibu tidak berada di dapur )
Interrogative
Does mother cook rice?( apakah ibu memasak nasi? )
Is mother in the kitchen? ( apakah ibu berada di dapur?)
More complete sentences ( use adjective and preposition )
Affirmative
Mother buys a green apple to the market
Negative
Mother doesnot buy a green apple to the market.
Interrogative
Does mother buy a green apple to the market?
Introducing the elements the sentence construction
As stated above that sentence is constructed into to elements. They are ; subject and predicate. Subject is the answer of “ who” or “What”. Predicate is a unit complements in the sentence. Look at the examples;
1. Mother cooks rice in the kitchen
2. Father is in the garden
3. He came to my house yesterday
4. Book is important
From the three sentences, we analyze that ; mother,father, he and book are the subjects.
But cooks rice in the kitchen, is in the garden, and is important are predicates.
Providing an oral and written test
Test is a tool used by the teacher to ensure himself to have the students’ capability to join his teaching and learning course. The oral test is usually conducted by appoint students to write the sentence in the whiteboard. On the other hand, written test is designed depends on the time and students need during the teaching or at the end of the teaching and learning.
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