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Tidak hanya Bahasa Indonesia bahasa negara kita tercinta saja yang perlu dipelajari, berbagai macam bahasa asing juga tidaklah rugi untuk kita pelajari. Seperti Bahasa Jawa, Jepang, apalagi Bahasa Inggris. Apa sih kegunaan bahasa asing bagi kita? Tentu saja agar kita dapat lebih mengenal banyak ilmu dan dapat berguna juga bila kita sedang berwisata maupun bekerja di negara asing lainnya. Berikut merupakan bebrapa dasar dari Bahasa Inggris, tentu saja masih ada banyak lagi yang perlu kita pelajari lainnya di dalam Bahasa Inggris tersebut, tapi kali ini saya hanya akan membahas tentang beberapa dasarnya.


Basic constituent order

English word order has moved from the Germanic verb-second (V2) word order to being almost exclusively subject–verb–object (SVO). The combination of SVO order and use of auxiliary verbs often creates clusters of two or more verbs at the centre of the sentence, such as he had hoped to try to open it.

In most sentences English only marks grammatical relations through word order. The subject constituent precedes the verb and the object constituent follows it. The example below demonstrates how the grammatical roles of each constituent is marked only by the position relative to the verb:

The dog bites the man
S V O
The man bites the dog
S V O
An exception is found in sentences where one of the constituents is a pronoun, in which case it is doubly marked, both by word order and by case inflection, where the subject pronoun precedes the verb and takes the subjective case form, and the object pronoun follows the verb and takes the objective case form. The example below demonstrates this double marking in a sentence where both object and subject is represented with a third person singular masculine pronoun:

He hit him
S V O

Indirect objects (IO) of ditransitive verbs can be placed either as the first object in a double object construction (S V IO O), such as I gave Jane the book or in a prepositional phrase, such as I gave the book to Mia.

Verbs and verb phrases

English verbs are inflected for tense and aspect, and marked for agreement with third person singular subject. Only the copula verb to be is still inflected for agreement with the plural and first and second person subjects. Auxiliary verbs such as have and be are paired with verbs in the infinitive, past, or progressive forms. They form complex tenses, aspects, and moods. Auxiliary verbs differ from other verbs in that they can be followed by the negation, and in that they can occur as the first constituent in a question sentence.


Most verbs have six inflectional forms. The primary forms are a plain present, a third person singular present, and a preterite (past) form. The secondary forms are a plain form used for the infinitive, a gerund–participle and a past participle. The copula verb to be is the only verb to retain some of its original conjugation, and takes different inflectional forms depending on the subject. The first person present tense form is am, the third person singular form is and the form are is used second person singular and all three plurals. The only verb past participle is been and its gerund-participle is being.

Itulah beberapa dasar dari Bahasa Inggris. Bahasa Inggris merupakan bahasa yang sangat sering kita temui di mana - mana, terutama di beberapa belahan dunia lainnya. Maka dari itu belajar Bahasa Inggris sangatlah berguna bagi kita. Sekian dulu dari halaman ini. Thank you dan Bye~