Jawaban & Pembahasan Participle Exercise

 

Jawaban

1. Who is … your office chair?

   1. setting up (Present participle digunakan pada progressive tense.)
   2. set up

2. She has … to Medan five times.

   1. been (Past participle digunakan pada perfect tense.)
   2. being

3. I thought the show was …

   1. bored
   2. boring (Pada kasus ini participle berfungsi sebagai predicative adjective yang menerangkan “show”. -ing adjective untuk mendeskripsikan seseorang atau sesuatu (show), sedangkan -ed adjective untuk membicarakan perasaan.)

4. The students found the question …

   1. confusing (Participle berfungsi sebagai object complement (berupa adjective) dari object “question”. Present participle untuk mendeskripsikan seseorang atau sesuatu (question).)
   2. confused

5. Would you like to hear my … experince during hoilday

   1. interesting (Participle berfungsi sebagai attributive adjective. Present-participial adjective bermakna sama active voice, sedangkan past-participial adjective kebanyakannya bermakna passive.
      interesting experience ~ experience that interests)
   2. interested

6. The baby … may be hungry or uncomfortable.

   1. cried out loud
   2. crying out loud (Versi adjective clause-nya adalah “who is crying out loud” yang dihilangkan relative pronoun dan verb to be-nya.)

7. I think your staff are … because they have been working hard all day.

   1. tired (Participle berfungsi sebagai predicative adjective yang menjelaskan “staff”. Past participle digunakan untuk membicarakan perasaan “staff” yang telah bekerja sepanjang hari.)
   2. tiring

8. The … city hasn’t been found.

   1. losing
   2. lost (a lost city ~ a city that has been lost)

9. The organic products will be … immediately after I receive your payment.

   1. sent (Past participle digunakan pada passive voice.)
   2. sending

10. I just saw an extremely … golden retriever.

    1. well training
    2. well trained (well trained ~ terlatih dengan baik)