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Words my young sister are a phrase which has fill the function of a subject. This phrase can be expanded become my beautiful young sister or my beautiful
adorable young sister.
3. Sentence
Sentence is the largest unit of grammatical organization within which part of speech noun, verbs, and adverbs and grammatical classes word, phrase, and
clause are said to function.
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Sentence is content of base constituent and final intonation. Base constituent is often clause and final intonation can be declarative
intonation in written language often use a dot interrogative intonation in written language often use a question mark, imperative intonation in written language
often use an exclamation mark, and interjection intonation in written language often use an exclamation mark.
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Example: Merry doesn‟t go to Dufan.
Watch out Who is the most emotional man here?
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Ibidp. 480
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Abdul Chaer Sintaksis Bahasa Indonesia Pendekatan Proses Jakarta: Rineka Cipta, 2009, p44
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D. Syntactic Functions
1. Subject
Subject is person or noun who do the action in verb which known as subject of the sentence. Subject can be filled from noun or pronoun, or some
words phrase.
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Subject always located in front of the verb. For example:
Shegot me insane
Subject Verb
My cute little kittenslept outside the house.
Subject verb
2. Predicate
Predicate is part of a sentence which states or asserts something about the subject and usually consists of a verb either with or without an object,
complement, or adverb.
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Example: 1
The murderer died. 2
The hunter killed the deer. 3
The caterpillar came out. 4
I am going to studio now.
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B.A.Phytian, Correct English Jakarta: Indeks, 2002, p. 33
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Jack C. Richards, loc cit, p. 412
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Sentences 1 and 4 are the example of a predicate without an object, complement, or adverb. Sentence 2 and 3 are the example of a predicate with
