- Last sunday, my friends Fadli and Arief, went to a Mathematic class. They considered the teacher an authority. Arief considers mathematics a fascinating subject. Fadli finds it a boring subject. He thinks mathematic activities nothing but hard work. Arief finds them great and challenging fun. He found the class interesting. Fadli thought it rather boring. The teachers may elect Arief a candidate of a representative of his school in Mathematic Olympiad.
- My Friends Harris and I moved to another part of Makassar. At first we found our new home strange. We found different and thought their speech peculiar. The climate made the people easygoing, and they seem casual about everything. The natives found us serious and impatient.
- Time has changed both our neighbors and us less critical. We have become accustomed to each other. Gradually, we have found life more pleasant. We still find our new home different from our old one, but we do not consider it necessarily worse. As far our neighbors, they find that being friends with us has made their lives more interesting.
Kalimat-kalimat dalam paragraf di atas menggunakan pola “Noun + Verb + Noun + Noun/Adjective”. Hanya ada beberapa kata kerja yang yang digunakan dalam pola ini: consider, find, believe, think, prove call, name, elect, appoint, nominate, make, paint, suppose, turn (mengubah), dan build.
Kebanyakan kata kerja di atas boleh digunakan dalam 2 pola: “Noun + Verb + Noun + Noun dan Noun + Verb + Noun + Adjective”. Akan tetapi ada beberapa kata kerja yang hanya dapat digunakan di pola pertama (noun sebagai pelengkap objek) yaitu appoint, elect, dan name. Dan kata kerja like (suka) dan keep hanya bisa dipakai untuk pola ke dua (adjective sebagai pelengkap objek).
Source:
Let's Write English by George E. Wishon Julia M. Burks 1980
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