MEANING

GENERIC STRUCTURE

FUCTION

GENERIC FEATURES

1. The recount focuses on a sequence of events all of which relate to a particular occasion2. It introduces specific participants3. frequent uses of Simple Past Tense4. Past continuous tense is sometimes used5. Temporal sequencers are also used in the sentences to show the events. They are listed below:· Before, After, When, While, … until …, During …, As …, At that time …, At that moment …, After that …, After then …Firstly …Secondly …Finally, Etc

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T1. Orientation : an introduction that provides the setting and introduces participant2. Events : account that tells what happened, in a sequence· Event 1· Event 2· Event 3· Etc3. Reorientation (optional) : Closing of events

How could I Hide my face?

One afternoon a month ago, I was very hungry. As I didn’t cook anything to eat lunch, I decided to go to a café about a hundred meters from my boarding house.

I changed my trousers and shirt then left for the café by myself because my roommate hadn’t come yet from the school. As soon as I got to the café, I ordered the meal with fresh vegetable soup that seemed very delicious in the hot day, and also a glass of tea. When they were served, I ate up eagerly the meal and soup and drank the tea. I was satisfied and it was the time to pay. I grabbed my trousers pocket and I was shocked. My hands didn’t feel there was any wallet there. I felt so embarrassed that I didn’t dare to see the faces of the customers. My body stayed still on the chair and began sweating.

I tried to control myself in front of the people. I collected my courage to come to the cashier to say something. Feeling uneasy, I told her that I left my wallet in the other trousers at the boarding house and promised to take it and come back soon. Some customers looked at me. I thought I must hide my face. She nodded and said it was not a matter.

Finally, I ran to the house and got back with the money. I gave it to her and came out of the café. What a relief! It should not happen again to me

The past perfect expresses an activity that was completed before another activity or time in the past.

Example :1. My parents had already eaten by the time I got home.2. Until yesterday, I had never heard about it.3. The thief simply walked in. Someone had forgotten to lock the door.

If either before or after is used in the sentence, the past perfect is often not necessary because the time relationship is already clear. The simple past may be used.

Example :1. Sam had already left when we got there2. Sam had left before we got there3. After the guests had left, I went to bed

Questions

1. John (go) … to the store, when we got john’s house.2. Rina (borrow) …. The books from library, when I called

someone. 3. Paijo (be, live) …. In kemuhu for six years before he moved to

jemblangan. 4. After Sujiwo (have, breakfast) …. in restaurant, we took a walk

together.

Questions

1. He (be) _______ a newspaper reporter before he (become) _______ a businessman.

2. Class (begin, already) _______ by the time I (get) _______ there, so I (take, quickly) ________ a seat in the back.

Two subjects connected by both…and take a plural verb. When two subjects are connected by not only…but also, either…or or neither…nor , the subject that is closer to the verb determines whether the verb is singular or plural.

Example :1. Both my mother and my sister are here2. Not only my mother but also my sister is here3. Not only my sister but also my parents are here4. Neither my mother not my sister is here5. Neither my sister nor my parents are here

Notice the parallel structure in the examples. The same grammatical form should follow each word of the pair

I. Both + noun + and + nounII. Not only + verb + but also + verbIII. Either + noun + or + nounIV. Neither + adjective + nor + adjectiveExample :1. The research project will take both time and money2. Yesterday, it not only rained but (also) snowed3. I’ll take either chemistry or physics next quarter4. That book is neither interesting nor accurate

1. He does not have a pen. He does not have paper.

2. John has a Lamborghini. Marry has a Lamborghini.

3. You can have tea, or you can have coffee.

4. Arthur is absent. Ricardo is absent.

Questions

Combining Independent Clauses with Conjunction

A conjunction may be used to connect two independent clauses. Punctuation :

1. Usually a comma immediately precedes the conjunction2. Sometimes in short sentences the comma is omitted3. sometimes in informal writing a conjunction may begin a sentence

Example :1. I was raining hard, and there was a strong wind2. I was raining hard and there was a strong wind3. I was raining hard. And there was a strong wind

In addition to and, but, or, and nor, other conjunction are used to connect two independent clauses :

so (meaning therefore, as a result)

for (meaning because)

yet (meaning but, nevertheless)

A comma almost always precedes so, far, and yet when they are used as conjunction

Example :

1. He was so tired, so he went to bed

2. The child hid behind his mother’s skirt, for he was afraid of the dog

3. He did not study, yet he passed the exam

Questions

1. The box is too heavy to bring, .… I call the taxi

2. The days were short, …. it was not December

3. Last week peggy bought a car, … she used to taking the bus to school

4. I’ve finally finished painting the house, …. Now I can go fishing

5. We have to wear warm clothes, …. It’s winter now.

6. Bob used to live in the dorm, …. A couple of weeks ago he moved into an apartment.

A Noun-Clause is a group of words which contains a Subject and a Predicate of its own and does the work of a noun.

Example :

• No one knows who he is.

• I did not know what he would do next.

• How the budget got in is a mystery.

• Pay careful attention to what I am going to say.

• I do not understand how all it happened.