Materi Pronoun Cases
Case menentukan fungsi pronoun (kata ganti) di dalam suatu kalimat. Pronoun mungkin berada pada subjective (I, you, they, we, she, he, it, who, whoever), objective (me, you, them, us, her, his, it, whom, whomever), atau possessive case (mine, yours, theirs, ours, hers, his, its, whose).
10 Contoh Soal Pronoun Cases
Pilihlah pronoun pada case yang tepat, apakah subjective, objective, atau possessive. Jika semua jawaban benar, pilih “both are correct”.
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Ferdian and … have accomplished their mission.
- her
- she
- hers
-
They don’t work as hard as …
- us
- our
- we
-
My father advised … to eat less salt and more whole grain foods.
- me
- I
- mine
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The customer … I will send this package lives in a rural area.
- who
- to whom
- whom
-
Whose wallet did she find? It’s …
- him
- his
- he
-
He is more experienced than …
- I
- me
- mine
-
She asked me trickier questions than …
- he
- he/him (Both “he” and “him” are correct.)
- him
-
Rangga offered to lend me his car, but I prefered to borrow …
- she
- hers
- her
-
Take care of your skin by protecting … from the harmful ultraviolet radiation.
- it
- its
- them
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… is the blue tunnel tent.
- he
- theirs
- they
Jawaban
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Ferdian and … have accomplished their mission.
- her
- she
- hers
(she (subjective case) | Test dengan menghilangkan noun pada compound subject: - She has accomplished her mission. (case benar)
- Her has accomplished her mission. (case salah)
- Hers has accomplished her mission. (case salah))
-
They don’t work as hard as …
- us
- our
- we (we (subjective case) | Positive degree: They don’t work as hard as I (work).)
-
My father advised … to eat less salt and more whole grain foods.
- me (me (objective case) | “Me” adalah direct object dari verb “advised”.)
- I
- mine
-
The customer … I will send this package lives in a rural area.
- who
- to whom
- whom
to whom (objective case) | Subordinate clause dari kalimat di atas mengandung direct object “this package” dan tampak kehilangan indirect object. - S + transitive verb + indirect object + direct object
atau - S + transitive verb + direct object + to + indirect object
Relative pronoun “whom” dapat berfungsi sebagai indirect object dari verb “send” atau object of preposition “to”. Pada formal English, preposition tersebut dapat berada di depan relative pronoun.
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Whose wallet did she find? It’s …
- him
- his (his (possessive case) | Pertanyaan dengan “whose” berkorelasi dengan possessive case.)
- he
-
He is more experienced than …
- I (I (subjective case) | Comparative degree: He is more experienced than I (am experienced).)
- me
- mine
-
She asked me trickier questions than …
- he
- he/him (Both “he” and “him” are correct.)
- him
he/him (Both “he” and “him” are correct.) | Bagian yang kosong mungkin subjective atau objective case. - subjective case: She asked me trickier questions than he (asked me).
- objective case: She asked me trickier questions than him (than she asked me).
-
Rangga offered to lend me his car, but I prefered to borrow …
- she
- hers (hers (possessive case) | Kata atau frasa yang berkorelasi dengan “his car” adalah “hers” atau “her car”.)
- her
-
Take care of your skin by protecting … from the harmful ultraviolet radiation.
- it (it (objective case) | “It” yang merupakan direct object dari gerund “protecting” mengarah kepada “your skin”.)
- its
- them
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… is the blue tunnel tent.
- he
- theirs (possessive case)
- they
Materi Pronoun Cases
Lihat juga:
- Soal Pronoun
- Soal Personal Pronoun
- Soal Reflexive Pronoun
- Soal Relative Pronoun
- Soal Interrogative Pronoun
References:
- Usage – Pronoun Case. http://www.towson.edu/ows/procase.htm. Accessed on July 7, 2015.
- Grammar Handbook: Noun and Pronoun Case.http://www.cws.illinois.edu/workshop/writers/nouncase/. Accessed on July 7, 2015.
- Cases of Nouns and Pronouns.http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cases.htm. Accessed on July 7, 2015.