Contoh Soal dan Pembahasan Tes Bahasa Inggris BUMN (Grammar)

NASIONAL, CURUPEKSPRESS.COM - Grammar merupakan struktur penyusunan kalimat.

Dengan menggunakan struktur yang benar, sebuah kalimat akan menjadi sempurna.

Struktur ini pun digunakan dalam segala bahasa, bukan hanya dalam bahasa Inggris. Mungkin untuk Bahasa Indonesia, kamu lebih mengenalnya dengan istilah SPOK (Subject, Predikat, Objek, Keterangan).

Grammar juga merupakan bagian dari sebuah bahasa setiap native speaker pelajari sejak bayi.

Kenapa begitu? Karena walaupun saat masih kecil bayi belum bisa mengerti apa itu grammar, lama kelamaan secara alami mereka dapat membedakan arti karena seringkalinya mendengar orang berbicara di sekililing mereka.

Kemudian beranjak dewasa pun jadi mengerti cara menyusun kata-kata menjadi kalimat sempurna. 

Nah pada tes Bahasa Inggris di BUMN sendiri tentunya akan ada pertanyaan yang berkaitan dengan grammar, untuk itu simak soal berikut ini untuk memperbanyak latihan soal grammar.

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Dec 26, 2004, was a day that I will never forget. It was the day I experienced my first earthquake. l had just ..... home from mosque and was lying on the living room sofa watching the news on TV. My little brother was in my room playing, and my older sister was in the kitchen preparing our breakfast. Our parents were

still sleeping. At exactly 3.08 a.m., the earthquake ...... my country. Our house started ....... violently as it ..... a small wooden boat being tossed by giant waves in the ocean. At first, none realized what was happening. Then my sister yelled, "Earthquake! Get under something!" I was too stunned to move, but the shaking was so strong that I soon fell off the sofa onto the floor. I half rolled, half crawled across the floor to the dining table and got under it. My sister was sitting on the floor kitchen, holding her arms ...... her head to protect it from falling dishes. She yelled at my little brother to get under his desk, but he wanted to be near us. He tried to get out of my room, but he kept falling down. The earthquake lasted less than a minute, but it seemed like a year to us.

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