Word order
Dalam susunan kata ada aturan yang perlu diperhatikan. Coba perhatikan pada sekelompok Compound nouns yang dapat di bentuk dari beberapa kata berikut:
Noun
|
+
|
Noun
|
toothpaste
|
Adjective
|
+
|
Noun
|
monthly
ticket
|
Verb+ing
|
+
|
Noun
|
swimming
pool
|
Preposition
|
+
|
Noun
|
underground
|
Noun
|
+
|
Verb
|
haircut
|
Noun
|
+
|
Preposition
|
hanger on
|
Adjective
|
+
|
Verb
|
dry-cleaning
|
Preposition
|
+
|
Verb
|
output
|
1. Sometimes the two words are joined together.
Example: tooth + paste = toothpaste | bed + room = bedroom
2. Sometimes they are joined using a hyphen.
Example: check-in
3. Sometimes they appear as two separate words.
Example: full moon
Perhatikan
Juga contoh berikut ini:
2-year
education
one-week vacation A-frame African American Air Force all-city tournament attorney general blood pressure
blue-green
dress
bull's-eye database daughter-in-law English-speaking person ex-wife first-rate accommodations football grandmother grant-in-aid great-aunt |
half sister
high-level officials I-beam Italian-American Italian-American club jack-in-the-box lifelike
light year
mayor-elect salesperson secretary-treasurer stockbroker T-square threefold up-to-the-minute V-formation vice president well-made clothes worldwide inflation |
Sequence of determiners/ runtutan
peletakan determiner
Determiner di bagi menjadi
Prediterminer, determiner , dan post determiner
Intensifiers + Pre-determiner + determiner + post determiner
Only a few above the water
Even the triple appropriation
Contoh lain dalam noun Phrase
Many more book
Several other people
The first few years
Both the girls
Only two more napkins
A dozen more roses
Every other seat
The first two men
In a few more days
Contoh dalam soal TOEFL
1.
The different colors of -----
the different temperatures of the stars ‘surfaces.
(A)
the stars indicate
(B)
indicating stars
(C)
the indication that the stars
(D)
stars indicating that
2.
The novels of Constance Fennimore
Woolson, -----, have special interest for their regional settings.
(A)
in a nineteenth-century writer
(B)
a nineteenth-century write
(C)
the nineteenth-century writing
(D)
wrote about the nineteenth
century
3.
Radio, -----, developed from
the theories and experiments of many people.
(A)
like other many inventions
(B)
like many other inventions
(C)
inventions like many other
(D)
many other like inventions
4.
If Earth did not
rotate, differences in air pressure would be -----, with winds blowing from
high-pressure to low-pressure areas.
(A)
primary air flow
to cause
(B)
the primary cause
pf air flow
(C)
they primarily
cause air flow
(D)
air flow has a
primary cause
5.
The ice of a
glacier that reaches the sea breaks off -----.
(A)
and forming
icebergs
(B)
to form icebergs
(C)
icebergs have
formed
(D)
when the formation
of icebergs
6.
The ancient
Egyptian water clock required sophisticated calibration, since water dripped
faster from its bowl when ----- and the pressure was greater.
(A)
the full bowl
(B)
was the bowl full
(C)
bowl full
(D)
the bowl was full
7.
The common barn
owl, one of ten species of barn owls found in North America, is also called the
monkey faced owl because its heart-shaped face looks ----- of a monkey.
(A)
like much that
(B)
like that much
(C)
much like that
(D)
that much like
8.
Through elaborate
use of symbols. Language enables people ----- and to communicate about objects
and event that are distant in time and place
(A)
who express
complex ideas
(B)
complex ideas
expressing
(C)
to express complex
ideas
(D)
complex ideas are
expressive
9.
Through elaborate
use of symbols. Language enables people ----- and to communicate about objects
and event that are distant in time and place
(A)
who express
complex ideas
(B)
complex ideas
expressing
(C)
to express complex
ideas
(D)
complex ideas are
expressive
10.
Invented in the
1780’s threshing machines enabled farmers
To process grain _____ they could by
hand.
(A)
Than much faster
(B)
Much than faster
(C)
Much faster than
(D)
Faster than much
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