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Narrative text is a story with complication or problematic events and it tries to find the
resolutions to solve the problems. An important part of narrative text is the narrative mode,
the set of methods used to communicate the narrative through a process narration.
The Purpose of Narrative Text is to amuse or to entertain the reader with a story.
1) Orientation
Sets the scene: where and when the story happened and introduces the participants of the
story: who and what is involved in the story.
2) Complication
Tells the beginning of the problems which leads to the crisis (climax) of the main
participants.
3) Resolution
The problem (the crisis) is resolved, either in a happy ending or in a sad (tragic) ending
4) Re-orientation/Coda
This is a closing remark to the story and it is optional. It consists of a moral lesson, advice
or teaching from the writer
One upon time, a mother duck sat on her eggs. She felt tired of sitting on them. She just
wished the eggs would break out.
Several days later, she got her wish. The eggs cracked and some cute little ducklings
appeared. "Peep, peep" the little ducklings cried. "Quack, quack" their mother greeted in
return.
However the largest egg had not cracked. The mother duck sat on it for several days. Finally,
it cracked and a huge ugly duckling waddled out. The mother duck looked at him in surprise.
He was so big and very gray. He didn't look like the others at all. He was like a turkey.
When the mother duck brought the children to the pond for their first swimming lesson., the
huge grey duckling splashed and paddled about just as nicely as the other ducklings did.
"That is not a turkey chick. He is my very own son and quite handsome" the mother said
proudly.
However, the other animals didn't agree. They hissed and made fun of him day by day. Even
his own sisters and brothers were very unkind. "You are very ugly" they quacked.
The little poor duckling was very unhappy. "I wish I looked like them" he thought to himself.
One day, the ugly duckling run away and hid in the bushes. The sad duckling lived alone
through the cold and snow winter. Finally the spring flowers began to bloom. While he was
swimming in the pond, he saw three large white swans swimming toward him. "Oh, dear.
these beautiful birds will laugh and peck me too" he said to himself. But the swans did not
attack him. Instead, they swam around him and stroked him with their bills. As the ugly
duckling bent his neck to speak to them, he saw his reflection in the water. He could not
believe his eyes. "I am not an ugly duckling but a beautiful swam" he exclaimed.
He was very happy. From that day on, he swam and played with his new friends and was
happier than he had never been.
Conditional Sentences
Conditional sentence adalah complex sentence (kalimat majemuk) yang dibentuk dari
subordinate clause yang diawali dengan subordinate conjunction if berupa condition (syarat)
dan main clause berupa result/consequence (hasil).
Ada 4 tipe conditional sentence yang biasa digunakan, yaitu: tipe 1, tipe 2, tipe 3, dan tipe 0.
Condition pada conditional sentence tipe 1 mungkin dipenuhi, tipe 2 tidak atau hampir tidak
mungkin dipenuhi, tipe 3 tidak mungkin dipenuhi (unreal), sedangkan tipe 0 selalu terwujud
karena merupakan scientific fact/kebenaran ilmiah.
Rumus Umum
if + condition, result/consequence
result/consequence + if + condition
3 If you had remembered to invite me, I would have attended your party.
Negatif if + condition
Dengan menggunakan rumus negatif if, contoh conditional sentence seperti di bawah ini.
If the students do not understand, they will raise their hand to ask.
Unless the students understand, they will raise their hand to ask. (Jika para siswa tidak
mengerti, mereka akan mengangkat tangan untuk bertanya.)
Zero conditional atau conditional sentence type 0 adalah conditional sentence yang
digunakan ketika result/consequence (hasil) dari condition (syarat) selalu terwujud karena
merupakan scientific fact (kebenaran ilmiah) atau general truth (kebenaran umum) yang
merupakan habitual activity (kebiasaan).
Bagian dependent clause (if+clause) dapat diawali oleh kata “if” atau “when“.
If di awal kalimat:
if di tengah kalimat:
If you dry fruits or vegetables, they lose their nutrient and calorie.
(Jika kamu mengeringkan buah atau sayuran, mereka kehilangan nutrisi dan kalori.)
(-) If one doesn’t drink after doing exercise, one gets dehydrated.
Conditional sentence tipe 1 atau first conditional adalah conditional sentence yang digunakan
ketika result/consequence (hasil) dari condition (syarat) memiliki kemungkinan untuk
terwujud di masa depan karena condition-nya realistik untuk dipenuhi.
If di awal kalimat:
if + condition, result/consequence
If di tengah kalimat:
result/consequence + if + condition
(-) If you don’t finish your homework, your teacher will be angry.
Conditional sentence tipe 2 atau second conditional adalah conditional sentence yang
digunakan ketika result/consequence (hasil) dari condition (syarat) tidak memiliki atau hanya
sedikit kemungkinan untuk terwujud karena condition-nya tidak mungkin dipenuhi di masa
sekarang (present unreal situation) atau condition-nya sulit untuk dipenuhi di masa depan
(unlikely to happen).
If di awal kalimat:
if + condition, result/consequence
If di tengah kalimat:
result/consequence + if + condition
Negatif if + condition
Pada conditional sentence tipe 2, were digunakan menggantikan was meskipun subjek yang
digunakan merupakan 3rd person pronoun (she, he, it) maupun kata benda tunggal. Hal ini
untuk menunjukkan bahwa pengandaiannya benar-benar hanya berupa khayalan semata
karena condition-nya tidak mungkin dipenuhi (present unreal situation).
if + condition, result/consequence
if + S + were, would (could/might) + bare infinitive
Fakta:
but I don’t have much hope it will rain (tapi saya tidak punya cukup keyakinan bahwa
besok akan hujan)
Fakta:
but Nisa doesn’t study hard (tapi Nisa tidak belajar keras.)
(Jika saya punya banyak uang, saya akan membeli sebuah mobil sport.)
Fakta:
but I don’t have much money (tapi saya tidak punya banyak uang)
(Jika saya seorang millionaire, saya akan mendonasikan uang saya untuk amal.)
Fakta:
If Nisa didn’t study hard, she would fail. atau Unless Nisa studied hard, she would
fail.
Inverted word order berarti verb muncul sebelum subject. Kondisi ini dapat terjadi dengan
menghilangkan kata “if” dan menukar posisi subject dan verb. Contohnya sebagai berikut.
Normal Inverted
(Jika saya pemilik toko, saya akan memberimu potongan harga.) Were (V) I (S) the
shopkeeper, I would give you discounts.
Conditional sentence tipe 3 atau third conditional adalah conditional sentence yang
digunakan ketika result/consequence (hasil) dari condition (syarat) tidak ada kemungkinan
terwujud karena condition-nya harus sudah dipenuhi di masa lalu.
If di awal kalimat:
if + condition, result/consequence
If di tengah kalimat:
result/consequence + if + condition
(+) If you had remembered to invite me, I would have attended your party.
Fakta:
but you didn’t remember
If I had given the interviewer really good answers, I might have got a higher position
than you.
(Jika saya memberi jawaban yang benar-benar bagus ke pewawancara, saya mungkin
memdapatkan posisi yang lebih tinggi dari kamu.)
Fakta:
(-) If the waitress had been careful, she wouldn’t have broken many plates.
(Jika pelayan tersebut hati-hati, dia tidak akan memecahkan banyak piring.)
Fakta:
(?) If he had asked you for forgiveness, would you have forgiven him?
Fakta:
Inverted word order berarti verb muncul sebelum subject. Kondisi ini dapat terjadi dengan
menghilangkan kata “if” dan menukar posisi subject dan verb. Contohnya sebagai berikut.
Normal Inverted
If you (S) had (V) saved your gold in a safety deposit box, it wouldn’t have gone.
(Jika kamu telah menyimpan emasmu di safety deposit box, emasmu tidak akan hilang.)
Had (V) you (S) saved your gold in a safety deposit box, it wouldn’t have gone.
EXPOSITION TEXT
Text exposition adalah sebuah teks yang membahas sebuah isu atau permasalahan dan
membahasnya dari satu sudut pandang. Exposition dapat dibagi menjadi 2 jenis, yaitu:
analytical dan hortatory. Bila analytical exposition adalah teks exposition yang tidak disertai
saran (hanya menyertakan pendapat dan argumen), maka text hortatory exposition adalah text
yang disertai saran.
EXAMPLES :
1. Thesis : It indicates the topic you are talking about. The paragraph should ended with
the expressions of reasoning or proving the statement.
2. Argumen : It list several reasons, gives facts or statistic or provides several examples.
3. Reiteration : It restates the statement that has been stated in the thesis or makes
conclusion based on the arguments.
Before you read the text, translate the bolded phrases found in the text! Then read the
following text carefully!
You may be asking yourself why it is necessary to save money. If you have enough to pay
everything you need, why should youu worry about putting some money aside each month?
There are a variety or reasons to begin saving money. Different people save for different
reasons. Here are some reasons that you may consider saving your money.
One reasons is for emergency funds. It is important enough to have an emergency fund
set aside to cover unexpected expenses. This could cover an unexpected car repair,
improvements on your house, an illness, or a sudden job loss. Ideally your expenses. In
addition, you need to make sure you have a plan and good enough insurance in place to help
you to survive the unexpected financial events in your life.
Anoter important reason to save money is for you retirement. Although its too hard to do
but the sooner you start saving retirement, the less you will have to save in the future. You
can put your money to work for you. As you continue to contribute overtime you will be
earning more interest on the money you have.
A third reason to save money is for vacation or secondaryitems. You buying and
negotiating power goes a lot farther when you have a significant saving. You can save up for
tour to Bali or Europe. Your negotiating power is stronger if you have enough cash in hand.
You can also negotiate the price of the car much lower if you are willing to pay cash at the
dealership.
Last but not least, the reason to begin saving money is for your money is for your future
education. Each year more people return to school to earn their master or doctoral degrees.
You may also consider saving for your child’s education when the time comes. Better
educations usually demand expensive costs.
From the reason mentions above, it is unquestionable that saving money is a good habit
and it is a compulsory, like an old proverb saying “forewarned, forarmed”.
Rock music has been one of the most powerful music in the world.Rock
does not only concern with the music but also the life and fashion style of
the rockers. Argument 1
Firstly, there are those who do not approve of the way rockers dress and
behave. Some go further and accuse rockers of Satanism. For example,
Ozzy Osbourne, a famous rock star, often bit the head off small animals
and drank their blood on stage. Many people considered such acts
affiliated with Satanism. Argument 2
Secondly, there are also occasions where teen commits suicide after
going to a concert or listening to music. Such cases strengthen the
conviction of many people that rock music, such as heavy metal and
underground music is truly a bad influence. Argument 3
Finally, for those reasons, I think the rockers should give positive
examples to the listeners because the listeners tend to listen to their idols
instead of other people. Recommendation
Passive Voice
Passive voice adalah suatu grammatical construction (bentuk gramatikal) dimana subject
kalimat tidak melakukan aksi, melainkan menerima aksi atau ditindaklanjuti (receiver of
action) oleh agent lain (doer of action) baik disebutkan ataupun tidak.
Sebaliknya, pada konstruksi active, subject berhubungan langsung dengan verb dengan
bertindak sebagai pelaku aksi. Kalimat aktif dapat ditransformasi menjadi pasif, namun hanya
transitive verb (diikuti direct object) yang dapat diberlakukan demikian.
Catatan:
Auxiliary verb dapat berupa primary auxiliary verb be (is, are, am, was, were, be, been,
being), kombinasi antara dua primary (is/are being, was/were being, has/have been)
atau antara primary dan modal auxiliary verb (will be, will have been); sedangkan past
participle yang digunakan berupa kata kerja transitive.
Contoh:
Perubahan bentuk dari base form ke past tense dan past participle secara regular
atau irregular.
Contoh:
subject: I
I am paid in dollars.
be: am (Saya dibayar dalam dollar.)
pp: paid
be: are
All of my shoes are washed every month.
pp: washed (Semua sepatu saya dicuci setiap bulan.)
be: was
The book was edited by Beatrice Sparks.
pp: edited (Buku tsb disunting oleh Beatrice Sparks.)
be: were
The books were edited by Beatrice Sparks.
pp: edited (Buku-buku tsb disunting oleh Beatrice Sparks.)
Tidak semua transitive verb, kata kerja yang memiliki direct object, dapat dipasifkan.
Beberapa kata kerja tersebut yang antara lain: have, become, lack, look like, mean, dll akan
terdengar tidak wajar maknanya ketika dipasifkan. Beberapa contoh kalimat dari kata kerja
tersebut adalah sebagai berikut.
Contoh:
I have a great new idea. —> tidak dapat dipasifkan dengan: A great new idea is had
by me.
The snack contains aspartame. —> tidak dapat dipasifkan dengan: Aspartame is
contained by the snack.
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Penjelasan mengenai auxiliary verb yang digunakan pada dapat dilihat pada bagian 1.
Contoh:
Julia wrote the report. —> The report was written by Julia
I have made a decision. —> A decision has been made by me.
Someone knocked on
your door last night. Your door was knocked on last night.
Somebody has
used the computer
without permission The computer has been used without permission.
digunakan ketika doer of action tidak penting untuk disebutkan (misalnya karena pelaku
aksi tersebut sudah jelas / bisa ditebak atau merujuk kepada orang secara umum)
People
seldom do physical
exercises regularly. Physical exercises are seldom done regularly.
The
teacher instructed the
students to solve the
math problem. The students were instructed to solve the math problem.
Sunmark
Press published The
Enzyme Factor at the The Enzyme Factor was published at the first time in 2005 by
first time in 2005. Sunmark Press.
I have to
collect more than
20,000 dollars to buy More than 20,000 dollars have to be collected to buy the car.
the car. (bentuk pasif dari infinitive)
digunakan sebagai variasi pada tulisan (misalnya pelaku aksi telah disebutkan pada
kalimat sebelumnya)
KPK investigators
knew that Neneng
Sri Wahyuni
returned to
Indonesia.
They arrestedthe KPK investigators knew that Neneng Sri Wahyuni returned to
woman on June 13. Indonesia. The woman was arrested on June 13.
Rumus dan Contoh Passive Voice pada Tenses
Auxiliary verb untuk membentuk konstruksi pasif pada tenses dapat berupa primary auxiliary
“be” (is, are, was, were), kombinasi antara dua primary auxiliary (is/are being, was/were
being, has/have been), atau antara primary auxiliary dengan modal verb (will be, will have
been).
Auxialiary tersebut kemudian dipadukan dengan past participle untuk membentuk passive
verb form.
Rumus dan contoh passive voice pada beberapa macam tenses dapat dilihat pada tabel
sebagai berikut.
Tenses Contoh
Catatan:
Bentuk pasif dari perfect continuous sebaiknya dihindari karena rumit dan tidak elegan.
Bentuk pasif dari infinitive phrase dapat berperan sebagai subject, object, maupun modifier
pada suatu kalimat. Rumus dan contoh bentuk pasif pada infinitive adalah sebagai berikut.
Contoh:
Bentuk pasif pada gerund dapat berfungsi sebagai subject, object, maupun object of
preposition dalam suatu kalimat. Berikut rumus dan contoh bentuk pasif pada gerund.
Contoh: