Soal Some Time, Sometime, Sometimes

Pengertian Some Time, Sometime, Sometimes

Some time, sometime, dan sometimes memiliki bentuk dan pengucapan yang hampir sama sehingga kerap menimbulkan kebingungan dan penggunaannya. Padahal ketiganya memiliki makna yang sangat berbeda. Bahkan some time berbeda kelas kata (part of speech) dengan sometime dan sometimes.

Some time (dua kata) merupakan noun (phrase) yang berarti “a period of time” (jangka waktu), sedangkan sometime dan sometimes sama-sama merupakan adverb yang masing-masing berarti “at an unspecified time in the future/past” (pada waktu yang tidak ditentukan di masa depan/lampau, kapan-kapan) dan “occasionally” (kadang-kadang).

Contoh Kalimat Some Time, Sometime, dan Sometimes

Some Time	I need some time to think about the offer. (Saya butuh waktu untuk memikirkan penawaran itu.)
	Can you spare some time to help me? (Dapatkah kamu meluangkan waktu untuk menolong saya?)
Sometime	We should meet up sometime. (Kita seharusnya bertemu kapan-kapan.)
	Let’s have a cup of coffee sometime. (Mari kita minum secangkir kopi kapan-kapan.)
Sometimes	You may sometimes find it difficult to overcome laziness. (Kamu mungkin kadang-kadang merasa sulit mengatasi rasa malas.)
	I want to know why sometimes the internet browser back button doesn’t work. (Saya ingin tahu mengapa kadang-kadang tombol kembali internet browser tidak bekerja.)

Exercises:

• Soal Some Time, Sometime, Sometimes

Related Posts:

• Later / Latter
• awhile / a while
• Home / House

References:

1. Sometime / Sometime / Sometimes. http://web.uvic.ca/wguide/Pages/UsSometime.html. Accessed on December 19, 2014.
2. When do I write some time instead of sometime and sometimes? http://www.cliffsnotes.com/cliffsnotes/writing/when-do-i-write-some-time-instead-of-sometime-and-sometimes. Accessed on December 18, 2014.
3. some time/sometime/sometimes. http://www.mit.edu/course/21/21.guide/sometime.htm. Accessed on December 18, 2014.
4. Sometime, Some time, and Sometimes. http://grammar.about.com/od/words/a/sometimeusage.htm. Accessed on December 19, 2014.
5. Sometime. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sometime. Accessed on December 19, 2014.
6. Sometime. http://learnersdictionary.com/definition/sometime. Accessed on February 18, 2016.