Hukum Penggunaan Apostrof Dalam Bahasa Inggris Dan Latihan Soal

Aturan Penggunaan Tanda Apostrof dalam Bahasa Inggris dan Latihan Soal – Di bawah ini, terdapat berbagai hukum perihal bagaimana cara menggunakan tanda apostrof dalam kalimat, lengkap dengan teladan-teladan soalnya. Selamat membaca. 🙂

1. Digunakan untuk memberikan kepunyaan. 

Untuk menawarkan kepunyaan dengan kata benda tunggal, Anda dapat menambahkan tanda apostrof + huruf s.

Contoh:

A man’s book

A girl’s doll

Titania’s bag

a. Pengecualian jika huruf terakhir dari kata benda tersebut ialah ‘s’ atau kata benda jamak, maka tidak perlu lagi disertakan huruf ‘s’.

Contoh:

Students’ pencils

Guys’ party

Workers’ houses

b. Di dalam bahasa Inggris, terdapat irregular noun untuk memperlihatkan kata benda jamak atau benda yang jumlahnya lebih dari satu, mirip; child-chilldren, tooth-teeth, person-people, foot-feet, man-men, woman-women, etc.

Penggunaan apostrof untuk memberikan kepunyaan pada kata benda jamak tersebut ialah menambahkan tanda apostrof + s.

Contoh:

Children’s toys

People’s right

Men’s ways

c. Menunjukkan kepunyaan pada compound noun, maka tanda apostrof dan aksara ‘s’ disertakan sehabis kata paling tamat dari compound noun tersebut.

Contoh:

my father-in-law’s coat

my two brothers-in-law’s jackets

d. Menunjukkan kepunyaan benda yang sama pada dua orang yang berbeda, maka tanda apostrof dan karakter ‘s’ hanya diberikan pada nama orang yang kedua.

Contoh:

John and Cecil’s work is promoted to an international science competition.

2. Digunakan untuk memadukan dua kata dan menghilangkan sebagian aksara dari kata yang digabung (omission) atau lebih sering disebut dengan contraction.

Contoh:

they + have = they’ve

are + not = aren’t

they + will = they’ll

does + not = doesn’t

will + not = won’t

would + not = wouldn’t

it + is = it’s

can + not = can’t

you + have = you’ve

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Table of Contents

• Bentuk Umum Contractions dalam Bahasa Inggris
• Latihan Soal

Bentuk Umum Contractions dalam Bahasa Inggris

Phrase	Contraction
are not	aren’t
cannot	can’t
could not	couldn’t
do not	don’t
does not	doesn’t
did not	didn’t
he will	he’ll
he would	he’d
he is	he’s
is not	isn’t
it is	it’s
I am	I’m
I will	I’ll
I would	I’d
I have	I’ve
she will	she’ll
she would	she’d
she is	she’s
that is	that’s
they are	they’re
they will	they’ll
they would	they’d
we are	we’re
we will	we’ll
we would	we’d
we have	we’ve
what is	what’s
who is	who’s
will not	won’t
would not	wouldn’t
you are	you’re
you have	you’ve
you will	you’ll
you would	you’d

 

Latihan Soal

Choose the correct sentence with the appropriate use of the apostrophe.

1.

a. His wife bag was broken by a strange person on the street.

b. His wife’s bag was broken by a strange person on the street.

c. His wifes’ bag was broken by a strange person on the street.

2.

a. I visited my father-in-law’s office to send some stuff left.

b. I visited my father-in-laws office to send some stuff left.

c. I visited my father-in-laws’ office to send some stuff left.

3.

a. We will not be allowed to enter Madam Keira room without notification from her secretary.

b. We will not be allowed to enter Madam Keiras’ room without notification from her secretary.

c. We will not be allowed to enter Madam Keira’s room without notification from her secretary.

4.

a. Where are those peoples bags?

b. Where are those people’s bags?

c. Where are those peoples’ bags?

5.

a. The womans underwear are sold out because of the big discount.

b. The womens’ underwear are sold out because of the big discount.

c. The women’s underwear are sold out because of the big discount.

Kunci Jawaban

1. B

2. A

3. C

4. C

5. C