STUDENT LEARNING JOURNAL

Intermediate Grammar
2018

Name : Umrotun nida NIM : 11170140000050

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Grammar Topic : Simple Sentence Resources : the Internet and grammar

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What have I learned?

Simple sentence has only subject and verb/predicate, but we can also add qualifier, complement,
object etc. Typically, in writing, it begins with a capital letter and ends with a full stop. Simple
sentences have only one main clause (one independent clause; one subject and one verb), and it has
a complete thought.
Example: I am going to go home on Saturday. (one independent clause, one subject and one verb).
Besides, simple sentence can also has a compound subject or predicate (or both).
Example: The arbitrary measures of Charles I, the bold schemes of Strafford, and the intolerant
bigotry of Laud, precipitated a collision between the opposite principles of government, and devided
the whole country into Cavaliers and Roundheads.
 Both the subject and predicate are compouund. Each of the three nouns in compound subject has
modifiers. The two verbs in the compound predicate have each a compliment, and the second has
adverbial modifier.

How did I learn it?

I read the explanation about simple sentence from internet, with more than one website, so I can
combine the material from each web and make the summary. Besides, I analyse the examples that
given by the resources, from the simplest form until the complicated one (a long simple sentence).

Do I understand what I have learnt?

Yes, I do. Because it is the simplest form of sentence, it seems not too difficult to understand, unless I
have to answer questions that is combined with other form of sentences, it probably a bit confusing.
But so far, I understand what simple sentence is.

What can I do in order to gain a better understanding?

Practice makes perfect. At least that is what I can say. All I need is doing more practice, answering
question about sentences until I have no confusion to differentiate the sentences.

Paragraphs (draft):
My friend and I went to a bookstore to buy an English reading book last week. We went to Gramedia
bookstore in Bintaro by motorcycle, it took more than 30 minutes to get there because we got a traffic
jam at Pondok Ranji Station and it was very annoying.
When we arrived at Bintato Plaza, it began to rain, so after parking the motorcycle we hurried to get
into the mall, then find Gramedia book store on the 3rd floor, but unfortunately we did not find the book,
I asked the clerks and they said that they don’t have the book. So we back home and got nothing. But
the next day her classmate said that Batubara book store, a book store near our campus sells the book.
I just can thought “why did we go so far. Whereas what are we looking for is very close?”.

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