Concerning the statement above, I think that the fourth graders of elementary school belong to transcend students with their own characteristics.
Furthermore, by knowing the characteristics of the students, it is easier for teachers to decide further steps in teaching and it will possibly help the teachers
in finding solution to overcome problems that might arise in teaching learning process.
2.2.3
Simple Sentences
There are some definitions of simple sentences from some experts : 1 Susan 1950:210 states that a simple sentence contains subject and one
predicate, both of which may be compound. 2 Wilting says 1981:35 that a simple sentence has one subject and one
predicate, other or both of which may be compound. 3 Marcella Frank 1972:222 claims that simple sentence contains one full
subject and predicate.
2.2.3.1 Kinds of Sentences
English is a language, and language is made up of words, however, we cannot just string the words together to produce an English sentence. We need to
put the words into the right order. According to Richard 1957:150, a sentence is a group of words consisting of subject and predicate that does not depend on any
larger grammatical construction. In line with that statement, sentence is a related group of words containing a subject and predicate and expressing a complete
thought www.English – test.net.
A sentence is a group of words that makes sense on its own. It must have a verb and it must start with a capital letter and end in a full stop., exclamation
mark or question mark ?. Moreover, Frank 1972:220 defines a sentence in one of two ways in traditional grammar, namely by meaning and by function. By
meaning, a sentence consists of a subject and a predicate. From functional and formal point of view, a sentence is a full of prediction
containing a subject plus a predicate with a finite verb. In other word, a sentence consists of subject and a verb at least. The subject in a sentence is generally the
person or thing carrying out an action. The arrangement of the sentence can be symbolized by formula as follows :
S V O Subject + Verb + object
She teaches English Further, Frank 1972:220-222 purposes the classification of sentences into
two ways, namely by the types and by the number of formal predications. There are four kind of sentences :
a Declarative Sentences Statements The Declarative Sentences in which the subject and predicate have normal
word order. For example:The child ate his dinner.
b Interrogative Sentences Question Interrogative Sentences is the sentence in which the subject and auxiliary are
often reversed. The sentence ends with a question mark.
For example : Did the child eat his dinner? c Imperative Sentences Command, Request
The Imperative Sentences is the sentence in which only the predicate is expressed.
For example : Eat your dinner In this study, I only use simple sentences in the form of simple present tense.
It causes the fourth graders of elementary school is the first class in elementary school which get english as a local content. Therefore, the material given to them
is just simple English. It is based on the 2004 curriculum for elementary school that elementary school students are the students who are expected to have
language skills in simple english. From this statement, we can conclude that the material given to them must be relevant with t
he students‟ ability and ages.
2.2.3.2 Simple Sentence
