English Summary: Concord

CONCORD
Concord adalah kesesuaian atau kecocokan antara ‘predikat’ dengan ‘subjek’. Karena
yang menjadi predikat suatu kalimat adalah ‘verb’ (kata kerja), maka
concord biasa disebut dengan ‘verb agreement’ (kata kerja yang mengikuti
subjek).

Concord atau verb agreement selalu terkait dengan:

1. Jenis subjek (misal: tunggal dan jamak)
2. Tenses
3. Bentuk kalimat (misal: positif, negatif dan tanya)

Contoh:
1. Berkaitan dengan ‘subject’:
a. One of my friends is reading newspaper now
Subject= one of my friends (salah satu = tunggal)
b. All of my friends are playing football now.
Subject= All of my friends (semua = jamak)
2. Berkaitan dengan ‘tenses’:
a. He plays football every Sunday (Simple Present)
b. He played football last week (Simple Past)
3. Berkaitan dengan ‘bentuk kalimat’:
a. She comes from London (positif)
b. She does not come Washington (negatif)

· MENENTUKAN SUBJECT (NOUN) TUNGGAL/JAMAK

1. Subject yang menyatakan Jumlah (jarak, berat, volume), waktu, judul --- Tunggal
Contoh: Five hundred kilometers is a long distance to drive in one day.
2. Subject yang terbentuk dari Gerund (V-ing) ------ Tunggal
Contoh: Singing English songs is my hobby.
3. every
each
one of
neither of + NOUN ------- Tunggal
either of
the number of
Contoh:
One of the students in my class comes from Africa.
Tunggal verb1+s
One of the students in my class is from Africa.
tunggal verb be (is)

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4. both
some
all + of + NOUN ------- Jamak
a number
Contoh:
All of the students come from Australia
jamak
All of the students are from Australia
jamak

5. ________ preposisi _______ ______ of ______

NOUN NOUN misalnya: ______ in ______
______ on ______

Yang jadi patokan adalah Noun di depan preposisi.

Contoh:
The source of many accidents is the careless driver. (Tunggal)
The sources of many accidents are the careless drivers. (Jamak)

6. either ______ or ______

neither ______ nor ______
NOUN NOUN
Yang jadi patokan adalah Noun setelah or / nor.
Contoh:
Neither the students nor the teacher is involved in the demonstration. (Tunggal)
Neither the teacher nor the students are involved in the demonstration. (Jamak)

7. _______ , as well as _______ ,

_______ , together with _______ ,
_______ , accompanied by _______ ,
NOUN NOUN

Yang jadi patokan adalah Noun yang di depan.

Contoh:
The man, accompanied by his children, is an engineer. (Tunggal)
The singers, as well as the orchestra, are from London. (Jamak)

· CONTOH SOAL :
1. Each of the students ______ required to come on time.
A. is D. are
B. were E. have

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C. be
PEMBAHASAN:
Jika bertemu soal seperti ini, maka lihat sebelum atau di depan ‘of’. Kata ‘each’
dianggap tunggal (he/she). Maka Auxiliary atau concord yang mengikuti each of
the students adalah ‘is’. Each of the students is required to come on time = Setiap
siswa diminta datang tepat waktu.
JAWAB: A (is).

2. Both of the students ______ required to come on time.

A. is D. are
B. was E. has
C. be
PEMBAHASAN:
Sebelum ‘of’, perhatikan kata ‘both’ (keduanya) dianggap jamak. Maka Aux-nya
adalah ‘are’.
JAWAB: D (are).

3. Neither the players nor the coach ______ satisfied with the referee decision on the
match last week
A. is D. are
B. was E. be
C. were
PEMBAHASAN:
Perhatikan setelah ‘nor’, noun the coach – tunggal. Dengan demikian to be yang
tepat adalah was (lampau, karena ada keterangan waktu last week).
JAWAB: B (was).

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