Pengertian
Subject-Verb Agreement
Subject-verb agreement adalah persesuaian antara verb dengan subject dalam hal number, yaitu: singular (tunggal) atau plural (jamak). Subjek
dapat berupanoun, pronoun,
atau konstruksi lain yang berakting sebagai noun, seperti gerund daninfinitive. Pada dasarnya, singular subject (subjek tunggal) menggunakan singular
verb (kata kerja tunggal), sedangkan plural
subject (subjek
jamak) menggunakan plural
verb (kata kerja jamak).
Subject-Verb Agreement (Umum)
Secara
umum pada bentuk
present tense,
singular verb berupa
base form (bentuk
dasar) dari
verb dengan ditambahkan
suffix (akhiran)
-s.
Adapun pada
plural
verb tanpa ditambahkan
suffix -s
(sebaliknya,
plural subject ditambahkan
suffix -s). Aturan kata kerja ini
berlaku pula pada subjek berupa
third person (orang ketiga, contoh: Ricky, Anna) dan
semua
personal pronoun (they, we= jamak; he, she, it= tunggal), kecuali
I dan
you. Walaupun
berupa subjek tunggal,
I dan
you dipasangkan dengan kata kerja bentuk
jamak.
Contoh Kalimat Subject-Verb Agreement
·
The sun rises.
·
The stars shine.
·
Leo rarely eats white bread.
·
You go straight
ahead then turn left.
Namun jika
ada
helping verb, maka
helping verb-nya yang berubah sedangkan
main verbdalam
bentuk dasar (base form verb). Pilihan
helping verb dalam
bentuk tunggal-jamak-nya adalah
is-are,
does-do,
dan
has-have.
Khusus untuk
has-have,
agreement tidak
berlaku jika kata tersebut merupakan
second helping verb atau
digunakan dibelakang
helping verblainnya.
Contoh Kalimat Subject-Verb Agreement
·
My boss always comes on
time.
·
They like eating
out.
·
He is working.
·
I do submit the task.
·
The manager has checked the documents.
·
The cat will have been sleeping (has-have TIDAK BERLAKU)
Sedangkan pada past tense, tidak ada perbedaan bentuk kata kerja dalam hal number(tunggal
atau jamak) jika tidak ada helping verb, yaitu: was-were.
Contoh Kalimat
Subject-Verb Agreement
The cat was sleeping.
·
We were roasting corn.
·
She drove fast
Adapun jika kata kerja yang
digunakan berupa
linking verb,
maka
is,
am (khusus I),
was (past
tense) digunakan oleh
singular subject,
sedangkan
are dan
were (past tense) oleh
plural
subject.
Contoh Kalimat
Subject-Verb Agreement :
·
Ricky is smart.
·
The children are naughty.
·
I was a stamp collector.
·
My books were borrowed by him.
Verb Singular And Plural
Singular :
is, has, was, agrees, approves, the number, and does
Plural :
are, have, ware, agree, approve, a number, and do
1. Noun each/every => verb singular
Jika
subjeknya menggunakan each/every maka verb yang digunakan adalah verb singular
Contoh
: Every Man, woman, child needs love (kata need ditambah
huruf s, karena subjeknya lebih dari satu)
2. Noun + proposional phrase => verb lihat noun
Contoh
: the book on the table is mine
3. Noun plural => verb plural
Jika
subjeknya menggunakan plural maka verb yang digunakan juga plural
Contoh
: the books on the table are mine
4. Noun singular => verb singular
Jika
subjeknya menggunakan singular maka verb yang digunakan juga singular
Contoh
: the apples at the markets are cheap
Same
of
singular noun => singular verb
A
lot
of plural
noun => plural verb
None
of
contoh :
Half
of
-some of my homework is easy
Most
of
-some of my homeworks are easy
Each
of
plural noun => verb tetap singular
Every
of
contoh :
One
of
-each of my friend is here
The
number => verb singular
Contoh
: the number of student in this class is 20
A
number => verb plural
Contoh
: a number of student are missed the class
Contoh soal
1. Some of the fruit in this bowl (is/are) …. rotten
ð Some of the fruit in this bown is rotten
2. Some of the apples in that bowl (is/are) …. rotten
ð Some of the apples in that bowl are rotten
3. Most of the movies (is/are) ….funny
ð Most of the movies are funny
4. Half of this money (is/are) … yours
ð Half of this money is yours
5. A lot of clothing in this stories (is/are) … on the sale
this week
ð A lot of clothing in this stories is on the
sale this week
6. Each of the boys in the class (has/have) … his own note book
ð Each of the boys in this class has his own
note book
7. None of the animals at the zoo (is/are) … free to room
ð None of the animals at the zoo is free to
room
8. The number of employes in my company (is/are) …
approximately ten thousand
ð The number of employes in my company are approximately
ten thousand
9. (does/do) … all of this homework have to be finished by
tomorrow?
ð Does all of this homework have to be finished
by tomorrow?
