Nouns (Kata Benda)

Nouns (kata benda) merupakan kata-kata yang mengacu pada person, place, object, feeling/idea, activity, atau quality. Nouns berperan sebagai subject, object atau complement dalam kalimat. 

Perhatikan kalimat berikut: 

• Many students study vocabulary by repeating the words. 
• Long-term memory is like a very big library with many books. 
• A thing of a beauty is a joy forever. 
• Islam is one of the major world religions. 
• You can also make a picture in your mind with the word. 

(Kata students mengacu pada person. Kata memory, library dan books mengacu pada object. Kata Islam mengacu pada feeling/idea. Sedangkan kata mind mengacu pada place) 

Exercise: Underline nouns and mention whether they are place, object, feeling/idea, activity, or quality. Do as examples. 

• The dentist check his patient tooth. ___person___ 
• The sky seemed to be full of parachutes. ____place______

1. Geometry is the study of shapes and configuration. ___________________ 
2. The car is old and parked in the yard. ________________ 
3. Happiness is the best feeling. ___________________ 
4. The boring speech lasted nearly one hour. ___________________ 
5. The first mathematics textbooks were written in English in 1540. ___________________ 

Beberapa nouns ditandai dengan penggunaan huruf kapital seperti Holly Book, Public Library, Indonesia, Muhammad, dan Batusangkar yang disebut dengan proper nouns. Sementara kata-kata seperti library, book, word, picture, dan sentence disebut common nouns kecuali di awal kalimat.

 

Exercise: Complete the following sentences with correct form of nouns in parentheses. 

Do as examples. 

• Mama and I will go to the lake next month. (lake or Lake) 
• Aunt Jo went to Lake Placid for the weekend. (lake placid, Lake placid or Lake Placid) 

1. We live near the ____________.(city or City)
2. My ___________ gave us a homework assignment.(teacher or Teacher)
3. Is __________________ a strict teacher?(Mr. brown or Mr. Brown)
4. My dog, _____________ likes to play fetch with a tennis ball.(buster or Buster)
5. At the zoo, we saw a gorilla named ______________.(grumpy or Grumpy)
6. That girl lives on ___________________.(adam street, Adam street, or Adam Street) 
7. Dad's birthday is in _______________.(january or January) 

Sumber: 

Zulfahmi M, 2020, English Grammar and Reading: Materi dan Latihan untuk Bahasa Inggris Umum, CV. Kekata Group: Surakarta

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