Pengertian Understood Subject

Pada imperative sentence (kalimat berupa command (perintah) atau request (permintaan), atau suggestion (saran)), subject biasanya tidak disebutkan.

Subject yang dihilangkan tersebut adalah personal pronoun you yang dikenal dengan sebutan understood subject atau “you” understood.

Lihat juga:

• Subject and Predicate
• Subject-Verb Agreement
• Subjective Case
• Subject Complement

Contoh Kalimat Understood Subject pada Imperative Sentence

1. [You] Tell me the truth!
   (Katakan pada saya yang sebenarnya.)
2. [You] Be patient.
   (Bersabarlah.)
3. [You] Don’t hurt yourself!
   (Jangan sakiti dirimu sendiri!)
4. [You] Pay yourself first before you pay your bills.
   (Bayar dirimu sendiri dulu sebelum membayar tagihan-tagihanmu.)
5. Please [You] close the door when you leave.
   (Tolong tutup pintu ketika kamu pergi.)
6. Before selling or giving away your device, [you] remove your personal information.
   (Sebelum menjual atau menghadiahkan perangkatmu, hapus informasi pribadi.)

Lihat juga:

• Reduced Adjective Clause: Penjelasan dan Contoh
• Conditional Sentence Type 0, 1, 2, 3: Pengertian, Rumus, dan Contoh Kalimat
• Alternative Question: Pengertian dan Contoh Kalimat
• Parallel Structure (Parallelism): Pengertian dan Contoh Kalimat Bahasa Inggris
• So do I: Pengertian dan Contoh Bahasa Inggris

References:

1. Verbs: Voice and Mood. https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/539/07/. Accessed on October 27, 2015.
2. “you” understood. http://grammar.about.com/od/tz/g/you-Understood.htm. Accessed on October 28, 2015.
3. Sentence Subjects. http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/subjects.htm. Accessed on October 27, 2015.
4. Grammar Handbook: Subjects and Predicates. http://www.cws.illinois.edu/workshop/writers/subjects/. Accessed on October 27, 2015.
5. Give Away. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/give+away. Accessed on October 28, 2015.