Note: adverb of frequency is often used before verb or after verb.
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Example:
They usually study English. They do not always study English.
Do they seldom study English? Don’t they seldom study English?
Based on the statement above we can conclude that simple present tense is a sentence construction which tells or shows the daily activities and general truth in the nominal
or verbal form of positive, negative, interrogative, and negative interrogative sentences using its particular time signals.
5. Simple Present Tense Mastery
Mastery is a great skill or knowledge about something which is had by someone. Meanwhile, Fullan defines that mastery is obviously necessary for effectiveness, but
it is also a means for achieving deeper understanding.
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It means that mastery is a complete of having control over something superiority in through knowledge of a
subject. According to Messer, mastery is the broad knowledge and skill in understanding
the world of physical objects.
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It can be concluded that mastery is have a broad skill of knowledge in understanding the objects.
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A. Faidal Rahman Ali, Fundamental of English Grammar a Practical Guide, Yogyakarta: Pustaka Widyatama, 2007, p. 252
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Michael G. Fullan, Why Teacher must Become Change Agents, Journal of Educational Leadership, 1993, p. 4, http:www.sunyedl630.wikispace.com, retrieved on April 2
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, 2016
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David J. Messer, Mastery Motivation in Early Childhood, London: Routledge, 2003, p. 230
According to Werner, Simple Present Tense refers to action or situation that to do not change frequently. It is used to describe habits or routines, to express opinions, or to
make genenral statements of fact, the simple present can also be used to refer to the future.
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It means that simple present tense is sentence that use to express daily activity, habitual, general statement, and it can also be used to express the future.
Based on those statement it can be concluded that simple present tense mastery is the students’ skill to construct sentences which tell or show daily activities or general
truth in the nominal or verbal form of positive, negative, interrogative, and negative interrogative sentences using its particular time signals.
E. Concept of Writing
1. Definition of Writing
Writing is a psychological activity of the language user to put information in the writing text.
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The written productive language skill is called writing. It is skill of a writer to communicate information to a reader or group of readers. Her or his skill is
also realized by his or her ability to apply the rules of the language she is writing to transfer information she has in her or his mind to her or his readerss effectively.
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Writing is a process of communication which uses conventional; graphic system to convey a message to reader. For many of foreign language learner, writing is
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Patricia Werner, Loc. Cit.
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Sanggam Siahaan, Issues In Linguistics 1
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Ed, Yogyakarta, Graha Ilmu, 2007, p. 215
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Sanggam Siahaan,The English Paragraph 1
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Ed, Yogyakarta:Graha Ilmu,2008,p. 2
