Mengenali Kata Benda (Nouns) dalam Kalimat

NOUNS

Nouns (kata benda) merupakan kata-kata yang mengacu pada person, place, object, feeling/idea, activity, atau quality. Noun 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 1:         

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

• Thedentist check his patient tooth. ___person______
• The sky seemed to be full of parachutes.   ____place______

1. Geometry is the study of shapes and configuration. ___________________
2. My neighbor drives a small car. ________________
3. The car is old and parked in the yard. ________________
4. Happiness is the best feeling. ___________________
5. The boring speech lasted nearly one hour. ___________________
6. Those pens belong to Anissa. _________________
7. Is it time to go yet? ____________________
8. The first mathematics textbooks were written in English in 1540. ___________________
9. Love makes the world go round. ___________________
10. Football is often a game of inches. ___________________

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, and sentence disebut dengan common nouns kecuali diawal kalimat. Untuk membedakan antara proper nouns dengan common nouns, lakukan latihan dibawah ini.     

Exercise 2:

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, 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. Can we play with the _______________?   (kitten or Kitten)
7. That girl lives on ___________________.   (adam street, Adam street, or Adam Street)
8. Most of the houses on my _____________ are made of brick.   (street or Street)
9. My birthday is next _____________.   (month or Month)
10. 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