10 kalimat yang mengandung Gerund

·        Rheo enjoys playing football

·        She studying English very well

·        Reading history book was my favorite

·        Mrs. Olga likes to cooking  

·        This land is good for farming

·        Her hobby is telling story

·        The waiting room is very large

·        My father hobby is fishing

·        She crying in the room      

·        I’am sleeping in my room

Deskripsi ciri-ciri dari Gerund

Dalam kalimat, gerund berfungsi sebagai:
a. subjek (subject)
b. pelengkap subjek (subjective complement)
c. objek langsung (direct object)
d. objek preposisi (object of preposition)
e. aposisi (appositive)


Subject
Gerund sebagai subjek pokok kalimat, contoh:
- Swimming is good service.
- Your singing is very beautiful.
- Studying needs time and patience.
- Playing tennis is fun.
- Reading English is easier than speaking it.

Subjective Complement
Gerund sebagai pelengkap subjek dalam kalimat biasanya selalu didahului to be yang terletak di antara subject dan subjective complement, contoh:
- My favorite sport is running.
- My favorite activity is reading.

Direct Object
Gerund sebagai objek langsung dalam kalimat, contoh:
- I enjoy dancing.
- She likes dancing.
- Thank you for your coming.
- I hate arguing.

Object of Preposition
Gerund sebagai objek preposisi yang terletak setelah preposisi. Preposisi yang sering dipakai adalah of, on, no, with, without, at for, after, before, because of, to, like, about, for, by, in.
Contoh:
- He is tired of gambling.
- I am fond of eating bakso.
- He insisted on seeing her.
- I have no objection to hearing your story.
- You will not be clever without studying.
- They are good at telling funny stories.
- In sleeping I met you in the park.

Appositive
Gerund sebagai aposisi atau penegas dalam kalimat, contoh:
- My hobby, fishing, is interesting.
- I do not like quarrelling, a useless job.
My hobby is fishing dan fishing is interesting diletakkan bersebelahan dalam sebuah kalimat sebagai appositive (fishing adalah aposisi dari my hobby), begitu juga contoh kalimat dibawahnya.

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Gerund

Gerund adalah kata benda yang berasal dari kata kerja ditambah –ing, misalnya swimming, eating, fishing, shopping, dancing, dan singing. Bila diperhatikan, gerund mempunyai bentuk yang sama dengan present participle, bedanya gerund berfungsi sebagai kata benda, sedangkan present participle sebagai kata sifat yang menerangkan kata benda. dfgdfgdfgdf




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Tugas 2

“CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER!”

1.The employees responsible for carrying out general office duties, filling in forms and keeping statistics are...
a   clerks       b   accountants       c   supervisors
2.The employees who sell a company's products are the sales representatives, usually known as ………..
a   vendors       b   renters       c   reps
3.The employees who decide what to purchase, and who make the purchases of  finished goods or components to be  made into goods, are the ………..
a   choosers       b   procurers       c   buyers
4. The employees who are responsible for seeing that the finished goods are well made are the
a   packers       b   quality controllers       c   financial staff
5. The clerical workers who use typewriters or word processors and who produce letters, memos or othe documents, are ...........
a   secretaries       b   editors       c   copywriters
6. The employees who check a company's financial affairs are the ............
a   statisticians       b   accountants       c   counters
7.The employees who are responsible for preparing checks, pay packets and pay slips are the ............
a   wages clerks       b   filing clerks       c   paying clerks
8. The workers who process data, under the control of managers and supervisors, are the computer …….
a   hackers       b   operators       c   screeners
9.The person who greets a visitor and tells him or her how to get to the right office is the ..........
a   manager       b   president       c   receptionist
10.  The employees who deal with a company's telephone calls are the
a   VDU operators       b   telex operators c   switchboard operators
11.The Board of ......is responsible for deciding on and controlling the strategy of a corporation or company.
a   Workers       b   Directors       c   Control
12. Small businesses depend on investors providing ………capital.
a   venture       b   individual       c   cooperative
13. Investors are influenced by the projected ………. on their capital.
a   market       b   return       c   rate
14. The capital needed to run a business is provided by ...........
a   gain       b   risk       c   investment
15. Rent and rates, which do not change as turnover volume changes, make up the .......costs of a company.
a   fixed       b   contribution       c   variable

> Answer :

1.jawaban a

2.jawaban c

3.jawaban c

4.jawaban b

5.jawaban a

6.jawaban b

7.jawaban a

8.jawaban b

9.jawaban c

10.jawaban c

11.jawaban b

12.jawaban b

13.jawaban a

14.jawaban c

15.jawaban a