3. JUMBLED SENTENCES

Apa yang harus Anda ketahui agar mampu menyusun kalimat menjadi paragraf?

Pahami bagaimana suatu paragraf dibuat?

Setiap paragraf teks bahasa Inggris biasanya memiliki:

1. Topik paragraf (Topic of paragraph)

2. Pokok pikiran (main idea)

3. Kalimat penjelas (supporting sentences)

Supporting sentences bisa memiliki:

1. Major supporting sentences. (Mass)

2. Minor supporting sentences. (Miss)

Note:

— Mass menjelaskan tentang kalimat utama/ pokok pikiran, sedangkan Miss menerangkan lebih lanjut Massnya.

— Posisi Miss selalu dibelakang Mass.

— Ciri Mass dan Miss diawali kata ganti atau diawali kata the.

Coba tentukan yg mana Mass dan Missnya?

I have a dog. His name is Browny. The name reminds me of my best friend’s nickname when I was in elementary school. Browny’s fur is like that of a tiger with brown and black strips. He has his own kennel. It is made of wood. But he prefers sleeping in the house.

Cara mengerjakan:

1. Baca dan pahami soal dengan baik.

2. Identifikasi makna, bentuk dan fungsi dari masing-masing kalimat yang disediakan.

3. Tentukan jenis teks pada kalimat acak.

4. Tentukan kalimat yang berfungsi sebagai kalimat pertama sesuai jenis teks tersebut.

5. Identifikasi pilihan yang didahului oleh kalimat pertama seuai jenis teks.

6. Cobalah menyusun dengan beberapa pilihan.

7. Tentukan pilihan yang paling tepat.

Arrange the sentences into a good paragraph.

1. They stay very clean and they do not make the house dirty.

2. Finally, cats are easier to take care of.

3. Cats are cleaner, first of all.

4. But cats are nicer pets in some ways.

5. Second, cats are quieter than dogs.

6. Third, cats are safer.

7. They usually do not make a lot of noise.

8. Dogs sometimes bite people, but cats almost never do.

9. You do not have to spend much time with a cat.

10. Cats and dogs are both popular pets.

Now these ones.

1. Behind them they left the craters, plains, and tall mountains of the moon.

2. And they left footprints that may last forever.

3. They left the machines they had set up.

4. Then they began the long trip back to the earth.

5. Next day the landing-craft rockets roared as the two men blasted off from the moon.

6. They joined Michael Collins in the space ship that waited for them above the moon.

Another one?

Arrange the sentences into a good paragraph.

1. The quake measured 6.3 magnitude.

2. It came just minutes after a warning had been given by scientists.

3. The region of Qasvia, western Iran, was hit by a huge earthquake yesterday.

4. The short notice gave local people little or no time to escape to an area of safety.

What about this one?

Arrange the sentences into a good text.

1. This way, before you meet someone,

2. In 2050 everyone in the world will have a personal web page with their information on it.

3. You can check out his or her web page to learn about the person.

4. These web pages will use the five senses: sight, touch, smell, taste and hearing.

Put the following paragraphs in the correct order to make a good text.

A. Shortly afterwards a birdcatcher came and stood under the tree, and laid his lime-twigs for the Dove, which sat in the branches.

B. One good turn deserves another.

C. An ant went to the bank of a river to quench its thirst, and being carried away by the rush of the stream, was on the point of drowning.

D. The Ant, perceiving his design, stung him in the foot. In pain the birdcatcher threw down the twigs, and the noise made the Dove take wing.

E. A Dove sitting on a tree overhanging the water plucked a leaf and let it fall into the stream close to her.

F. The Ant climbed onto it and floated in safety to the bank.

Rearrange the following sentences into a good text.

A. ‘Good day, hens, how are you feeling? I’ve come to give you a check up. Please open the door.’

B. A cat had heard that all the hens in a chicken coop had fallen ill.

C. But the chickens all answered together.‘Thanks very much, but we’ll at feel a lot better if you would just go away, thank you.’

D. He dressed up as a doctor, with a bag full of instruments and medicines, and off he went to the chicken coop.

E. He had been thinking for a long time of a way to get the door open, and at last this seemed lika a very good opportunity