Bentuk Pronoun Dalam Soal Toefl: Emphatic Pronoun Self Form Digunakan Untuk Menegaskan (To Emphasize) Arti Kata
Bentuk Pronoun Dalam Soal Toefl: Emphatic Pronoun Self Form Digunakan Untuk Menegaskan (To Emphasize) Arti Kata
Bentuk Pronoun Dalam Soal Toefl: Emphatic Pronoun Self Form Digunakan Untuk Menegaskan (To Emphasize) Arti Kata
Pronoun atau kata ganti adalah kata yang menggantikan kata benda atau frasa benda. Ada
beragam bentuk pronoun dan fungsinya dalam bahasa Inggris. Hal ini dapat dijadikan strategi untuk
menganalisa soal pada bagian Structure and Written Expression ketika menghadapi tes TOEFL. Anda
harus mengidentifikasi kesesuaian fungsi pronoun tersebut dalam kalimat, apakah sebagai subject,
object, atau ungkapan kepemilikan saja. Selain itu, Anda juga perlu mengidentifikasi rujukan atau kata
yang digantikannya dan menganalisa kesesuaian kategori pronoun tersebut, apakah singular atau plural,
person atau non person, dan male atau female.
Jenis Pronoun
Ada beberapa jenis pronoun, yaitu:
1. Personal pronoun sebagai subjek Yaitu I, you, he, she, it, we, dan they.
Contoh:
• I go to school early.
• She had breakfast an hour ago.
2. Personal pronoun sebagai objek Yaitu me, you, him, her, it, us, dan them.
Contoh:
• Ali visited me.
• He went to Jakarta with them.
3. Possessive adjective Yaitu my, your, his, her, its, our, dan their.
Possessive adjective bisa berfungsi sebagai objek juga sebagai subjek, tetapi tidak berdiri sendiri.
Contoh:
• My mother went to Mecca. (subjek)
• I visited our grandmother. (objek)
4. Possessive pronoun Yaitu mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, dan theirs.
Possessive pronoun merupakan kata ganti kepunyaan yang berdiri sendiri (tidak diikuti kata benda).
Contoh:
• This big house is theirs.
• Tina is a friend of mine.
5. Reflexive/emphatic pronoun Yaitu myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, dan themselves.
Reflexive pronoun digunakan untuk menyatakan suatu perbuatan yang tanpa disadari (gerakan refleks).
Contoh:
• When I was cutting bread, I cut myself.
• She looks at herself in the looking glass.
Emphatic pronoun self form digunakan untuk menegaskan (to emphasize) arti kata.
Contoh:
• I myself got to the office. (saya sendiri)
• He himself made the boat. (dialah sendiri)
• He made the boat itself. (hanya perahu yang dia buat)
Relative Proronoun
Position Person Thing
Subject who that
Possessive whose of which the
Object whom/that that/which
Preposition whom [preposition] which [preposition]
Contoh:
Subject:
1) The man is my uncle. He is wearing a cap.
The man who is wearing a cap is my uncle.
2) The woman is my mother. She went to Mecca.
The woman who went to Mecca is my mother.
Object
1) The girl is my friend. I saw her last night.
The girl whom I saw last night is my friend.
2) The boy is naughty. The teacher punished him.
The boy whom the teacher punished is naughty.
Possesive
1) The girl has left the room. I want to talk to her mother.
The girl whose mother I want to talk to has left the room.
Preposition
1) The man is generous. I borrowed the car from him.
The man from whom I borrowed the car is generous.
Jawaban : C
Keyword : His wife
Pembahasan : Kata ganti kepunyaan adalah whose. Jadi pilihan yang tepat adalah The man whose wife
had a birthday party yesterday is an engineer.
3. Tari : Why do you admire Mother Teresa so much?
Susi : Don’t you know that she was the woman ______.
A. that she didn’t recognize me
B. who dedicated her life to the poor
C. whom the governor met at the party
D. of which house was very expensive
Jawaban : B
Keyword : the woman
Pembahasan : Kata ganti yang tepat untuk the woman (subjek orang) adalah who.
4. A friend of mine ______ father is the manager of a company helped me to get a job.
A. whose B. whom C. which D. who
6. Mary introduced me to her former lecturer _____ she married after she had graduated.
A. of whom B. whose C. of which D. whom
Jawaban : D
Keyword : her former lecturer; she married
Pembahasan : Kata ganti whom digunakan untuk menggantikan objek orang (her former lecturer).
7. Angiosperms inhabit relatively diverse environments and may be found _____ higher plants can
survive.
A. There B. Wherever C. Somewhere D. Then
12. The Pilgrims were 102 English emigrants whom, after arriving on the Mayflower, became the first
European settlers in New England.
Jawaban : A Keyword : emigrants
Pembahasan : Karena adjective clause pada kalimat tersebut sebagai pengganti subjek untuk orang, maka
seharusnya yang digunakan adalah who, bukan whom.
13. When them strike, the cobras raise themselves high above the ground on their tails and then fall
forward.