Setelah sebelumnya membahas jenis-jenis kata benda (nouns), kemudian dijabarkan penggunaannya dalam kalimat, selanjutnya dibahas mengenai kata benda yang bisa digunakan untuk kata benda dapat dihitung dan tak dapat dihitung tergantung maksud dan arti yang diinginkan, maka kali ini akan dijelaskan kata benda dapat dihitung dan tak dapat dihitung yang memiliki arti mirip (similar). Apa saja ya kira-kira kata benda tersebut? Yuk langsung saja kita cek bersama-sama. Dengan demikian pengetahuan kalian tentang jenis-jenis kata benda bertambah ya. Semoga tidak semakin bingung.
Yang perlu diperhatikan adalah kalian harus ingat perjanjian-perjanjian kata benda yang bisa dihitung dengan kata benda tak dapat dihitung didalam penggunaanya dalam kalimat.
Untuk mengingat kembali:
– Dalam kata benda yang bisa dihitung, bisa berbentuk tunggal atau jamak. Jadi dalam kalimat, kata kerja yang digunakan menyesuaikan. Misalkan saja:
1. Two girls go to school together
2. A girl goes to school together.
3. I need two meters of board to make table.
4. Three families are together now in those meetings.
– Untuk kata kerja tak dapat dihitung hanya memiliki satu bentuk, dan sesuai perjanjian, kata kerja yang digunakan merupakan kata kerja singular, seperti:
1. Beauty isn’t what I need from you.
2. Oxygen makes us feel comfortable in breathing.
3. Arabic is the difficult language I think.
4. Could you please bring some bread to our breakfast?
Daftar di bawah ini adalah kata benda yang bisa dihitung dan kata benda yang tidak bisa dihitung dengan arti yang mirip (similar), kalau bisa dihafalkan ya!
| Count noun | Noncount noun | Meaning |
| a climate climates | Weather | Iklim, cuaca |
| a laugh laughs | Laughter | tertawa |
| a job jobs | Work | pekerjaan |
| a machine machines | Machinery | Berhubungan dengan mesin |
| a human being human beings | Humanity | Masyarakat/ umat manusia |
| a man men | man; mankind | lelaki |
| a person persons | People | orang |
| a sunbeam sunbeams | sunlight, sunshine | Berkas sinar/ cahaya |
| a traffic jam traffic jam | Traffic | macet |
| a snowflake snowflakes | Snow | salju |
Catatan: kalian harus ingat perjanjian-perjanjian penggunaan kata benda dapat dihitung dengan kata benda tak dpaat dihitung dalam kalimat ya.
Contoh penggunaan dalam kalimat:
| determiner | count noun | ||
| We need | a | machine | to help me do this |
| We need | three | machines | to help me do this |
| We need | many | machines | to help me do this |
| We need | some | machines | to help me do this |
| determiner | noncount noun | ||
| We need | machinary | to help me do this | |
| We need | some | machinary | to help me do this |
| We need | much | machinary | to help me do this |
Catatan: coba perhatikan, untuk kata benda tak dapat dihitung hanya memiliki satu bentuk.
Contoh:
Incorrect: Today is a good weather to walk outside with you.
Correct : Today is good weather to walk outside with you or Today is a good climateto walk outside with you.
Incorrect: It is impossible that a people could live in Uranus without any tools.
Correct : It is impossible that people could live in Uranus without any tools or it is impossible that a person could live in Uranus without any tools.
Incorrect: I want to have a sunshine today.
Correct : I want to have sunshine today or I want to have a sunbeam today.
Incorrect: Give them a laughter from you all.
Correct : Give them laughter from you all or give them laughs from you all.
Incorrect: Rena was late yesterday because she got stuck a traffic.
Correct : Rena was late yesterday because she got stuck traffic or Rena was late yesterday because shegot stuck a traffic jam.
Incorrect: Theo is still looking for a work for his brother now.
Correct : Theo is still looking for a job for his brother now or Theo is still looking for work for his brother now.
Incorrect: Who is he, a mankind who is standing alone there?
Correct : Who is he, mankind who is standing alone there? or who is he, a man who is standing alone there?
incorrect: Many snow scatter here, so I can play it to make a snowman.
Correct : Many snowflakes scatter here, so I can play it to make a snowman or snow scatter here, so I can play it to make a snowman.
Incorrect: She has bought a new machineryfor her employee.
Correct : She has bought new machinery for her employee or she has bought a new machine for her employee.
Incorrect: Keeping environment cleaning is useful for a humanity.
Correct : Keeping environment cleaning is useful for humanity or keeping environment cleaning is useful for a human being.
Begitulah kira-kira penggunaan kata benda yang data dihitung dengan kata benda tak dapat dihitung yang artinya mirip/ hampir sama ya. Jadi harus hati-hati penggunaan dalam kalimat, jika salah memilih, maka tidak akan sesuai dengan struktur grammatic, dan otomatis salah dong secara struktur, apalagi jika kita menulis dalam suatu artikel ilmiah. Untuk pembahasan berikutnya masih pembahasan mengenai kata benda (nouns);hmm,,,,membahasa kata benda memang tak akan ada habisnya ya; yakni kata benda tak dapat dihitung (noncount) yang bisa diungkapkan dalam bentuk singular or plural, loh kok bisa? So,,, stay tune here always. See you!
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