Nama : Arnoldus Sutaryanto
NPM : 19210610
Kelas : 4 EA 18
TASK 1
1. Difference Between Simple Past and Present Perfect
The simple past tense indicates that an activity or situation began and ended at a particular time in the past.
The present perfect expresses the idea that something happened (or never happened) before now, at an unspecified time in the past.The exact time it happened is not important. It also expresses the repetition of an activity before now. The exact time of each repetition is not important.
2. Subject - Verb Agreement
Subject-verb agreement just means using the right version of the verb to agree with the subject.
ex: Cars is coming
3. Difference Between Possessive Pronoun and Possessive Adjective
A possessive pronoun takes the place of a noun that belongs to someone or something.The possessive pronouns are: mine, yours, his, hers, ours.
ex : The house on the corner is ours.
A possessive adjective describes a noun as belonging to someone or something. A possessive adjective is placed just before the noun it describes.The possessive adjectives are: my, your, his, her, our, their, it's.
ex : Our house is on the corner.
4. Collective Noun
a collective noun is the name of a number (or collection) of people or things taken together and spoken of as one whole. For example, in the phrase "a pride of lions",pride is a collective noun.
TASKS
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A verb complement is the arrangement of one verb as the object of another verb.
This happens three ways in English:
1. With Infinitives
ex : I asked her to leave, I wanted to leave, I helped him to leave, I stopped for the child to cross the street.
2. With Gerunds
ex : I considered leaving the job, I regretted his leaving the job, They decided on leaving.
3. With Noun Clauses
ex : I insisted that he leave, I wondered why he left, She acknowledged that she had left the job, He didn’t know that she had left, She decided when she would leave.
Verb and Preposition followed by Gerund
ex : After being stopped by the police, George admitted to having drunk two pints of beer
Adjective and Preposition followed by Gerund
ex : He is accustomed to having his own office. She is addicted to watching TV. She is afraid of speaking in public.
