Penggunaan Be Used to dan Used to
Jangan sampai salah membedakan antara be used to dengan used to (do) karena dua frasa tersebut berbeda fungsi dan maknanya di dalam kalimat.
Used to diikuti bare infinitive (kata kerja bentuk dasar tanpa tambahan -s/-es), sedangkan be used to yang diikuti noun, pronoun ataupun gerund sebagai objek bagi preposition-nya.
Contoh Kalimat Be Used to / Used to
Be used to | They aren’t used to crowded environments. (Mereka tidak terbiasa dengan lingkungan yang padat.) noun |
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He sometimes acts weird. Are you used to him? (Dia kadang-kadang bertingkah aneh. Apa kamu terbiasa dengannya?) pronoun |
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I’m used to cooking with sunflower oil. (Saya terbiasa memasak dengan minyak bunga matahari.) gerund |
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Used to | I used to play with my dolls when I was a child. (Saya biasa main boneka ketika masih kecil.) |
He used to be an English teacher, but now he is a businessman. (Dia dulunya guru bahasa Inggris tapi sekarang seorang pebisnis.) |
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Did you use to eat lunch with her? (Apakah dulu kamu biasa makan siang dengannya?) |
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References:
- ‘used to + infinitive’ and ‘be/get used to’. https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/grammar-reference/used-infinitive-and-beget-used. Accessed on May 1, 2015.
- ‘used to’ / ‘get used to’.http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv93.shtml. Accessed on May 1, 2015.
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