2. Irregular verbs are verbs that their simple past and past participle form are not formed by adding -d or -ed to the infinitive, they have their own form
of simple past and past participle form. The examples of irregular verbs are:
Infinitive Drive
Go Read
Write Come
Simple past drove
went read
wrote came
Past participle driven
gone read
written come etc.
This research focused on ordinary verbs that included regular verbs and irregular verbs because these types of verbs are relevant to the recount texts
which are written in the past tense form. These materials were chosen based on the Indonesian 2006 Institutional Based Curriculum for Junior High School.
2.2.3 Adjectives
Adjectives are words that are used to modify nouns. According to Miriam Webster online dictionary, an adjective is a word that describes a noun or a
pronoun or a word belonging to one of the major form classes in any of numerous languages and typically serving as a modifier of a noun to denote a quality of the
thing named, to indicate its quantity or extent, or to specify a thing as distinct from something else.
According to Thompson and Martinet 1986:33, there are six types of adjectives, they are demonstrative adjectives, distributive adjectives, quantitative
adjectives, qualitative adjectives, interrogative adjectives, and possessive adjectives. This research focused on the use of quantitative adjectives and
qualitative adjectives. Qualitative adjectives are adjectives that define the quality or the condition
of a particular object for example: clever, smart, big, small, tall, short, etc..
Meanwhile, quantitative adjectives are adjectives that define the quantity or the amount of a particular object for example: many, much, few, little, no, etc..
These types of vocabulary were chosen by consulting to the curriculum and its relevancy to the recount text.
2.2.4 Adverbs
Hatch and Brown 1995:230 define adverbs as similar to adjectives in many ways although they typically assign distribute to verbs, clauses or to entire
sentence rather than noun. In addition, According to Miriam Webster Online Dictionary, adverbs are words to modify other words, clauses, or sentences, they
usually add information about how, where, or when. According to Thompson and Martinet 1986:47, there are eight kinds of adverb, they are adverbs of manner,
adverbs of place, adverbs of time, adverbs of frequency, adverbs of certainty, adverbs of degree, interrogative adverbs, and relative adverbs.
This research focused on adverbs of manner, adverbs of place, and adverbs of time. The materials were chosen by consulting to the curriculum and its
relevancy to the materials of recount texts.
2.3 The Importance of Vocabulary in Learning English