Complement adalah kata atau kelompok kata yang melengkapi makna dari subject, verb, atau object. Dengan demikian, ada tiga macam complement, yaitu: subject, verb, dan object complement.
Subject Complement
Pengertian Subject Complement
Subject complement adalah noun, pronoun, adjective, atau konstruksi lain (berperan sebagai noun atau adjective) yang mengikuti verbs of being atau linking verb serta berfungsi menerangkan atau merujuk subjek kalimat.
Subject complement terbagi menjadi tiga yaitu:
- predicate adjective (subjek dihubungkan dengan adjective)
- predicate noun (subjek dihubungkan dengan noun)
- predicate pronoun (subjek dihubungkan dengan pronoun).
Contoh Kalimat Subject Complement:
Mrs.Diana was a great headmaster | Headmaster =menerangkan subjek (Mrs.Diana)
A great = modifier yang menerangkan headmaster A great headmaster = noun phrase |
That lady is very beautiful | Beautiful – menerangkan subjek (lady)
Very=modifier yang menerangkan beautiful That lady =noun phrase |
These are yours | Yours = menerangkan subjek (this) These = demonstrative pronoun |
The noodle tasted delicious | Delicious > (predicate adjective = menerangkan subjek (noodle) The noodle = noun phrase |
So, What is a verb complement?
A verb complement is the arrangement of one verb as the object of another verb. This happens three ways in English:
- With infinitives,Infinitives adalah bentuk dasar dari verbs. Dalam bahasa inggris, penulisan infinitives biasanya diawali dengan “to”. Misalnya: to read, to walk, to give, dan seterusnya. Meskipun pada umumnya infinitive diawali dengan “to”, akan tetapi ada beberapa infinitive tanpa “to”, biasanya disebut dengan “bare infinitive”. Contoh:
- Subject + Verb + to infinitive
I hope to see you again.
Residents are not allowed to bring pets in my apartment.
- subject + verb + object (nouns/ pronouns) + to infinitive
The teacher reminded the students to do their homework.
The doctor advised him to stop smoking.
- I asked her to leave.
- I wanted to leave.
- I helped him to leave.
- I stopped for the child to cross the street.
- With gerunds Verb + Gerunds
- My hobby is fishing
- Her hobby is reading novel
- My favorite sport is playing football
- What she wants to do now is crying over her mother to release her burden.
- I considered leaving the job.
- I regretted his leaving the job.
- They decided on leaving.
- With noun clauses,
- I insisted that he leave.
- I wondered why he left..
- She acknowledged that she had left the job.
- He didn’t know that she had left.
- She decided when she would leave.
Ada dua kemungkinan jika Gerund digunakan sebagai Object, yakni Object of Preposition (Object Kata Depan) dan Object of Verb (Object Kata Kerja). Beberapa preposisi (preposition) lazim yang sering diikuti oleh Gerund adalah: about, in, for, of, without, from, by, dan to. Untuk preposisi “to”, boleh diikuti Gerund jika fungsinya memang sebagai presposisi, bukan bentuk dari infinitive. Contoh :
I’m used to sleeping with the window open.
I’m accustomed to sleeping with the window open.
I look forward to going home next month.
Sumber:
http://public.wsu.edu/~mejia/Verb_3.htm
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