based on the 2013 Curriculum. The details about large vocabulary will be reviewed in the following parts.
a. Nouns
Harmer 2004:37 states that noun is a word or groups of words that is a name of a person, a place, a thing or an activity or a quality or idea. In line with
this idea, Hatch and Brown 1995:219 state that noun refers to a person, a place or a thing. They also say that nouns can be divided into subclasses. They
are as the following: a.
Proper nouns : Besty, Ohio, etc.
b. Common nouns
: woman, state, choir, etc. c.
Abstract Nouns : hope, understanding, love, etc.
d. Concrete Nouns
: dish, table, chair, etc. e.
Count Nouns : books, birds, piano, etc
f. Mass Nouns
: gravy, rice, sugar, etc. g.
Group Nouns : government, board, fair, club, choir, etc.
Hatch and Brown, 1995: 219
This research focused on common nouns and concrete nouns because they were mostly taught to the seventh grade students.
b. Verbs
Harmer 2004:37 defines a verb as a word or a group of words which is used in describing an action, experience or state. In line with this statement, Hatch
and Brown 1995:222 say that verb is a kind of word showing actions. From the above definitions, it can be concluded that verb is a kind of word or group
of words that is used for describing an action, experience, event, or state. Thomson and Martinet 1986:105 classify verbs into two kinds, namely;
auxiliary Verbs and ordinary verbs.
1. Auxiliary Verbs
An auxiliary verb is a kind of verb that helps to form a tense or an expression. For examples: be, have, do, can, could, may, might, must,
shall, should, will, would and used to. 2.
Ordinary Verbs According to Harmer 2004:38, an ordinary verb is a verb that carries the
main meaning. He also calls this kind of verbs as main verbs. Thomson and Martinet 1986: 105 divide ordinary verbs into two kinds, namely:
regular verbs and irregular verbs. a
Regular Verbs Regular verbs are verbs that their simple past and past participle are formed by
adding “d” or “ed” to the infinitive. They have fixed rule. The example of regular verbs:
Infinite Past
Past Participle answer
answered answered
close closed
closed decide
decided decided
walk walked
walked work
worked worked
b Irregular Verbs
Irregular Verbs are verbs that do not have fixed rule to create simple past and past participle.
The examples of irregular verbs are as the following: Infinitive
Past Past Participle
bring brought
brought eat
ate eaten
go went
gone see
saw seen
sing sang
sung This research focused on ordinary verbs that cover regular verbs in V1
infinite because V1 as one of the languages features of descriptive texts.
c. Adjectives
