Definisi dan Klasifikasi Nouns

What is NOUNS?

NOUNS is any word that describes a person, place, or thing. 

IDENTIFICATION OF NOUN

• Concrete Nouns
• Absract Nouns                    

Concrete Nouns

•           Definition:

            Noun which is any word that describes a person, place, or thing can be captured by the five senses so you can see, hear, smell, taste, or feel the item.

•           Kinds of Concreate Nouns:

-          Common Nouns

            Noun that indicate the type,class of object or place or etc.

            examples : car,man, bridge etc.

                                    The cat loves comfort

-          Proper Nouns

            Noun that the name of thing, place or etc , that specific only for it

            Proper Noun always begins with capital letter.

            examples : Africa, Andy, Indonesia etc.

                                    English is a global language

-          Collective Nouns

            Noun which can take a singular form but are composed of more than one individual person or items  .

            examples : Team,Jury,committee etc.

                                    I saw a herd of sheep nearby

-          Material Nouns

            Noun that indicate the names of objects that happen by itself not human made.

            examples : gold, water,fish,iron etc.

                                      The chair is made of bamboo.

-          Compound noun

            Noun which is a combination of of two or more words.

            examples : Mother-in-law, paper-clip,etc.

                                       She is my mother in law

Abstract Nouns

•         Definition:

            Noun which is any word that describes a person, place, or thing can’t be captured by the five senses.    

            Many are derived from adjectives and verbs and have characteristic endings such as –ity, -ness, -ence,  and -tion.

•         such as difference , purity , composition , happiness

COUNTABLE NOUN VS UNCOUNTABLE NOUN

Countable Noun : Things that you can count a(n), the, some, any this, that, these, those none, one, two, three,  . . . many a lot of a large/great number of a few fewer . . . than more  . . . than

Uncountable Noun : Things that you can’t count the, some, any this, that none much(usually in negative or question) a lot of a large amount of a little less . . . than more . . . than

Countable nouns

Use these tests for countable nouns:

• Countable (or just “count”) nouns can be made plural: a tree… two trees; a man… men; a pony… ponies.
• In the singular, they may have the determiner a or an: a sausage; an asterisk.
• We ask: How many words/pages/chairs?
• We say: A few minutes/friends/chips?
• examples : Book – books, Pen- pens, Window-windows

Uncountable nouns

Use these tests for uncountable nouns:

• Uncountable (or non-count) nouns cannot be made plural. We cannot say: two funs, three advices or five furnitures.
• We never use  a or an with them.
• We ask: How much money/time/milk?        (Not How many?)
• We say: A little help/effort. (Not A few.)
• examples :water, rice, heat, soccer, lucky, air, ice, dust

Analytical Exposition - ayo belajar bahasa inggris

ANALYTICAL EXPOSITION

Definition / Definisi               :

      to show the fact of problem to the readers which usually aren’t given attention because it shows general happen in the society.

Social Function / tujuan         :

to persuade the reader or listener that something is the case.

Generic Structure / struktur :

Hal berikut dapat menjadi ciri teks Analytical Exposition saat menemukan suatu bacaan/teks.

a.     Thesis           : The opinion of the reader (opini pembaca)

b.        Arguments     : supports thesis

                              (memberi suatu pernyataan/bukti yang dapat mendukung thesis yang telah dibuat)

We can use prove,experiments ,example  after writing the point of our argument.

c.         Reiteration     : The conclusion of the text (kesimpulan dari teks)

Significant Lexicogrammatical Features :

•      Use of Simple Present Tense

•      Passive and Active Verb

•      Focus on generic human and non-human participants

•      Use of conjunction to state arguments

Berikut contoh Teks Analytical Exposition

Example 1 :

Smoking in Restaurant

Thesis         : Smoking in restaurants is just not on.  It must not be allowed because it is rude, harmful to others and dangerous for the smokers.

Argument   : Firstly, smoking in a restaurant is impolite. The smell of the smoke affects all people and can turn them off their food. Moreover, if the restaurant  use AC. It will be worse. People pay to taste good food and not to be put off by foul smelling smoke.

Argument   : Another reason smoking should not be allowed in restaurant is the harm it can do to others.  Based on research, there are 60% passive smoking that is breathing in smoke made by a smoker can lead to asthma attacks and even cancer.There are many people die because they become passive smoking.

Reiteration : Therefore, smoking in restaurants is impolite, harmful to others and a health risk to the active and passive smokers.It makes many people uncomfortable. 

Example 2 :

The Importance of Reading

I personally think that reading is a very important activity in our life.  Why do I say so?  Firstly, by reading we can get a lot of knowledge about many things in the world such as Science, technology. Sports, arts, culture, etc written in either books, magazine, newspaper, etc.

            Secondly, by reading we can get a lot of news and information about something happening in any parts of the world which can’t we see directly.

            Another reason, reading can give us pleasure too.  When we are tired, we read books, newspaper or magazine on the entertainment column such as comedy, short story, quiz, etc. To make us relaxed.

            The last, reading can also take us to other parts of the world.  By reading a book about Irian Jaya ,we may feel we’re  really sitting in the jungles not at home in our rooms.

            From the facts above, it’s obvious that everyone needs to read to get knowledge, information and also entertainment.  Or in summary we can say reading is truly important in our life.

Example 3 :

“throw the rubbish into the trash bin”. But I think many people usually forget it . When we look at classrooms, school corridors and school yard, there are paper mineral water cups, straws, and napkins here and there. 

             The condition of uncleanliness and discomfort really hinders learning and teaching environment. Litters thrown carelessly cause disease, especially empty plastic cup or glasses.  They can be filled out with water coming from the rain.  This can be placed for dengue mosquitoes to spread out.  Besides, these rubbish can deteriorate the scene.  Well painted wall and green school yard do not mean anything litters are scattered everywhere.

            Anyway I notice that most of the students in our school have responsibilities for the school environment.  They put their litters on the proper places.  But some are not diligent enough to find the dust bins. To improve comfort and cleanliness at our school, a number of dust bins should be increased.  But the numbers of dust binds in our schools are not enough.   Ore dust bins should be put beside each of steps, outside of the classrooms, and some more also the corridors.  Probably one dust bin should be in every ten meters.  So when students want to throw away their litters, they can find the dust bins easily.

            When school is equipped with sufficient dust bins, we do not have problems of freak and discomfort any more.  Our school will be very clean and become a nice place to study.

Untuk contoh ke 2 dan 3 ,silahkan kalian coba mengklasifikasikan sendiri bagian-bagian teks tersebut mana yang tesis, argument, dan reiteration seperti contoh pertama.

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