English Business Meeting 2

Passive and Activee sentence
Kata kerja dalam bahasa Inggris juga dinyatakan dalam voice. Voice adalah istilah tata bahasa Inggris yang digunakan untuk menunjukkan hubungan kata kerja dan subjek (pokok kalimat).
Dalam bahasa Inggris dikenal dua voice, yaitu active dan passive.

Dalam kalimat passive, subjeknya dikenai atau menerima pekerjaan. Sedangkan kalimat active, subjeknya yang melakukan suatu tindakan atau pekerjaan.
Kalimat passive dibentuk dari dua bagian: to be + past participle.


Contoh active verbs dalam kalimat:

* I write a letter.

* He is buying a car.

* I keep the butter in the fridge.

* They stole the painting.

* The executive committee approved the new policy.


Contoh passive verbs dalam kalimat:

* A letter is written by me.

* A car is being bought by him.

* The butter is kept in the fridge.

* The painting was stolen.

* The new policy was approved by the executive committee.

English Business Meeting 8

1. education
a. exeeds requirements
b. meets requirements spesialished
c. does not meet requirements

2. attitude to money
a. all important economical
b. a consideration
c. unimportant


3. assertiveness
a. forcefull aggresive
b. assured
c. mild

4. ability to take criticism
a. able
b. fairly able nervous
c. not able

5. sociability
a. wide circle of friends
b. more sociable than reserved reserved
c. more reserved than sociable

6. speech
a. good speaker talkaktive
b. reasonable speaker
c. rather poor speaker

Simple Future Tense

membicarakan perstiwa yang akan terjadi pada saat tertentu di waktu yang akan dating

pola kalimat

S + will/shall + V 1 + complement
S + will/shall + not + V 1 + complement
Will/shall + S + V 1 + complement ?


Atau

S + to be (is, am, are) + going to + V 1 + complement
S + to be (is, am, are) + not + going to + V 1 + complement
To be (is, am, are) + S + going to + V 1 + complement

Ex: we shall go to the seaside next week
I am going to visite you tomorrow
He will not finish his homework tonight
She is not going to tell you the secret
Will she come to our meeting tomorrow ?
Are you going to buy the history book

English Business 1 Meeting 5

Example of press release

Overseas development organization
Survey of temburong

Permission has now been obtained from the relevant authorities for a geological and ecological survey of the little known temburong district of north west Brunei.

The survey is taking place later this year and will be financed by the overseas development organization.

The party consists of:

Professor peter marsh Ph.D. B.Sc. an ecologist who has been seconded to the O.D.O. by the land and agricultural organization. Doctor Karen Adelby fil.mag. winner of the TAKAR PRIZE last year for work in peru. She is lecturer in economic Geography, at present working in Sweden.


Doctor Tony svaventa Ph.D. an America geologist who is at present working with marrison mining enterprise. He specialises in geological mapping and aerial surveying.

The team leaves England on September 22nd and returns from Brunei six weeks later. It will be appreciated that many details have yet to be finalized. For this reason we are arranging a final press conference on Monday September 18th when all members of the survey will be present and full details will be available to the press


Simple past tense

Digunakan untuk menunjukan peristiwa/ keadaan yang terjadi pada waktu tertentu di waktu lampau.

S + was/were + noun / adjective / adverb

S + to be + not + noun / adjective / adverb

To be + S + noun / adjective / adverb ?

Ex : he was a teacher

They were not in the same class

Was she sad

He was a driver

S + V II + object / complement

S + did + not + V I + object / complement

Did + S + V I + object / complement

Ex : he came to my house last night

Febrina did not take a breakfast this morning

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