describing things
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Describing Things
Untuk frasa benda (Noun Phrase) yang terdiri lebih dari 2 kata, penyusunannya mengikuti pola
D O E C H, yaitu :
D = Determiner, meliputi :
a. article (kata sandang) : a, an, the …
b. possessive (kata ganti milik) : my, your, his …
c. demonstrative (kata ganti penunjuk) : this, that,
those …
d. quantitatives (penunjuk jumlah) : some, many, a lot
O = Ordinative, meliputi :
a. numerals (kata bilangan) : one, two, three …
b. kata sifat yang memiliki bentuk komparatif –er dan superlative –est/ most dan very
misalnya :
the two students
D O H
a smaller class
D O H
the most interesting story
D O H
a very challenging activity
D O H
E = Epithet, meliputi :
kata sifat yang biasa memiliki bentuk komparatif –er, more, most dan very, tetapi dalam hal ini bentuk komparatifnya tidak dicantumkan
misalnya :
a strong man
D E H
tetapi : a very strong man
D O H
dan a stronger man
D O H
C = Classifying, meliputi :
kata benda yang berfungsi sebagai kata sifat, misalnya :
Indonesia singers
C H
the national movement
D C H
a swimming pool
D C H
his gold watch
D C H
H = Head Word, meliputi :
kata utama/ pokok dalam frasa
misalnya :
a swimming suit
D C H
the most beautiful American lady
D O C H
susunan D O E C H tersebut tidak boleh diputarbalikkan
Apabila dalam suatu frasa benda terdapat lebih dari satu epithet, kita mengurutkannya dengan pola sbb :
E = Di Si A T Sha Co
Keterangan :
Di = Descriptive Enumerator, yaitu kata sifat seperti : bad, good, beautiful, pretty, boring,
interesting
Si = Size, yaitu ukuran seperti : big, small, wide, narrow, little, short, long
A = Age, yaitu umur seperti : new, old, young
T = Temperature, yaitu suhu seperti : hot, cold, cool, warm
Sha = Shape, yaitu bentuk seperti : round, flat, square, triangular
Co = Colour, yaitu warna seperti : black, red, green, yellow
Contoh :
1. his beautiful large new square white house
D E (Di) E (Si) E(A) E (Sha) E (Co) H
2. an interesting thick old black story book
D E (Di) E (Si) E (A) E (Co) C H
3. the pretty deep cold mountain river
D E (Di) E (Si) E (T) C H
OPINION SIZE AGE SHAPE COLOUR ORIGIN MATERIAL PURPOSE
What do you think about something?
How big or small is it?
How old or young someone or something is?
What is the shape? What colour is it? Where is it from? What is it made of? What is it used for?
pretty, ugly, silly, smart, easy, fun...
small, tiny, large, enormous, big...
old, young, adolescent, new, ancient...
square, triangular, irregular, flat, round...
red, blue, magenta, pinkish...
British, Chinese, French, Brazilian, western, lunar...
silver, gold, copper, wood, plastic, cotton...
racing (car), football (field)frying (pan)
1. He was wearing a ________ shirt. dirty old flannel flannel old dirty old dirty flannel
2. Pass me the ________ cups. plastic big blue big blue plastic big plastic blue
3. All the girls fell in love with the ________ teacher. handsome new American American new handsome new handsome American
4. I used to drive ________ car. a blue old German an old German blue an old blue German
5. He recently married a ________ woman. young beautiful Greek beautiful young Greek beautiful Greek young
6. This is a ________ movie. new Italian wonderful wonderful Italian new wonderful new Italian
7. She is a ________ supermodel. beautiful slim Brazilian Brazilian beautiful slim slim Brazilian beautiful
8. It's in the ________ container. large blue metal blue large metal blue metal large
9. He sat behind a ________ desk. big wooden brown big brown wooden wooden big brown
10. She gave him a ________ vase. small Egyptian black black Egyptian small small black Egyptian
exercises
1. Ring – old– an – unusual – gold
2. Lady – nice – an – old
3. House – attractive – the – modern
4. Leather – black – gloves
5. Metal – black – the- box – small
6. Village – a – little – lovely – old
7. Young – five – Chinese – pretty – artists
8. Big – old – red – the – car
9. Rooms – large – good – three
10.Hair – long – beautiful - black