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Regimen, fighting savagely, broke out of the German trap. The car was towed by a truck. It was taken to a garage for repair.
The car, towed by a truck, was taken to a garage for repair. Most sentence pattern with the verb-cluster modifiers express a logic of
cause-and-result.
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5 The Pattern of Sentences with Prepositional-Phrase Modifiers.
Prepositional phrases often combine with modifiers to form large elements that can act as sentence modifiers
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, e.g. Mr. Smith was in a state of shock over the accidental death of his wife.
He entered the hospital for a rest and complete check-up. In a state of shock over the accidental death of his wife, Mr. Smith
entered the hospital for a rest and complete check-up. 6
The Pattern of Sentences with Adjective-Cluster Modifiers. An adjective cluster in the new grammar is the same as an adjective phrase
in the old: an adjective headword with its modifiers
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, e.g. Mary was intensely happy with her new kitchen. She delighted her
husband with various culinary experiments. Intensely happy with her new kitchen, Mary delighted her husband with
various culinary experiments.
d. Compound-Complex Sentences
The combination of compound and complex sentences, is at least using two main clauses and one subordinate clause. E.g.
I was late because George had come over unexpectedly, and I drove as fast as I could.
The clause in italic is subordinate; the main clauses are in roman type.
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Ibid, p. 149
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Ibid, p. 150
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Ibid, p. 151
CHAPTER III THE PROFILE OF THE SCHOOL
The school where the writer would do the research is SMA TRIGUNA UTAMA which is built on 1984. It is stated on Jl. Ir. H. Juanda Km.2 Ciputat and has 9
classrooms. Facing the globalization, the headmaster of this school wished to make an English area at the school. In order to achieve this aim, he really intended in English
subject to improve students’ English. So, the English teacher of this school takes an important role in applying the
headmaster’s objective. Unfortunately, because the teacher doesn’t only teach at this school but also at several other schools, heshe doesn’t have much time to supervise
students’ active speaking intensively. The more complicated problem is that according to the structure of school
organization, Rectorate of UIN became the supervisor of this school but lately Rectorate of UIN didn’t give any advice for the development of this school concretely. The
delegation from UIN only came once or twice for the last two years, only for saying hello to the staff of the school.
Moreover the help from government didn’t come to the independent school Swasta but little. This made the problem more complicated, because according to the
students background which most of them came from the suffering family to get some food, it’s more difficult for the school to recruit more money from the students either
for the text book, moreover, for the construction of the school building. The most pity condition that the students didn’t have the text book but LKS for the limited cost they
had while some were still having an owe for the LKS.
C. English Subject
4. English Teachers
There are two English teachers at this school, Mrs. Burdah Darlina and Mr. Ase Komaruddin. But the writer would only describe one of them because
she would only do a research at 2
nd
year class which is taught by Mrs. Burdah Darlina. She was graduated as an English bachelor at IAIN Syarif Hidayatullah
Jakarta on 1986, then took an undergraduate program of English Department S1 at UIN Syarif Hidayatullah and graduated on 2004. And now she is taking a
graduate program of English Program S2 at UHAMKA. She is teaching
