1. She would like to live in Indonesia, ______ it never snows.

A. when
B. where
C. that
D. which

Jawaban : B
Keyword : Indonesia
Pembahasan : Karena Indonesia adalah nama tempat, kata untuk menggantikan tempat adalah
where.

2. The man is an engineer. His wife had a birthday party yesterday.

The best combination of the two sentences is ______.

A. The wife who is an engineer had a birthday party yesterday
B. The wife who had a birthday party yesterday is an engineer
C. The man whose wife had a birthday party yesterday is an engineer
D. The man whose wife is an engineer had a birthday party yesterday

Jawaban : C
Keyword : His wife
Pembahasan : Kata ganti kepunyaan adalah whose. Jadi pilihan yang tepat adalah The man
whose wife had a birthday party yesterday is an engineer.

3. Tari : Why do you admire Mother Teresa so much?

Susi : Don’t you know that she was the woman ______.
A. that she didn’t recognize me
B. who dedicated her life to the poor
C. whom the governor met at the party
D. of which house was very expensive

Jawaban : B
Keyword : the woman
Pembahasan : Kata ganti yang tepat untuk the woman (subjek orang) adalah who.

4. A friend of mine ______ father is the manager of a company helped me to get a job.
A. whose
B. whom
C. which
D. who

Jawaban : A
Keyword : A friend of mine; father
Pembahasan : Kata yang tepat untuk melengkapi kalimat tersebut adalah whose yang berarti
“yang …nya” (yang ayahnya).
5. Eko : “Which is your mother, Lily?”
Lily : “There she is; the one ______ is coming here.”
A. who
B. whom
C. which
D. whose

Jawaban : A
Keyword : she
Pembahasan : Kata the one merujuk pada your mother yang berfungsi sebagai subjek dalam
kalimat. Kata ganti subjek orang adalah who.

6. Mary introduced me to her former lecturer _____ she married after she had graduated.
A. of whom
B. whose
C. of which
D. whom

Jawaban : D
Keyword : her former lecturer; she married
Pembahasan : Kata ganti whom digunakan untuk menggantikan objek orang (her former
lecturer).

7. Angiosperms inhabit relatively diverse environments and may be found _____ higher plants
can survive.
A. There
B. Wherever
C. Somewhere
D. Then

Jawaban : B
Keyword : may be found
Pembahasan : Karena mengacu pada diverse environments yang menunjukkan tempat, maka
pilihan yang tepat adalah wherever.

8. _____ hardiness, daylilies can be cultivated particularly easily.

A. Their
B. Since their
C. It is their
D. Because of their
Jawaban : D
Keyword : hardiness
Pembahasan : Karena mengacu pada daylilies yang berbentuk jamak, maka kata ganti yang
digunakan adalah their.

9. The spiral threads of a spider’s web have sticky substance on them _____ insects.
A. Traps
B. Trap its
C. Which traps
D. Which it traps

Jawaban : C
Keyword : sticky substance
Pembahasan : Kata ganti yang dibutuhkan merujuk pada sticky substance. Karena rujukannya
adalah benda, maka kata yang tepat adalah which.

10. The Good Earth, _____ is a novel set in China.

A. Which by Pearl Buck
B. Which was written by Pearl Buck
C. Was written by Pearl Buck
D. Pearl Buck being the one who wrote it

Jawaban : B
Keyword : The Good Earth
Pembahasan : Karena menerangkan The Good Earth yang merupakan judul novel/nama benda,
maka relative pronoun yang digunakan adalah which.

11. State universities bear the name of their state, and its achievements are recognized as state
achievements.

Jawaban : C
Keyword : State universities
Pembahasan : Karena state universities adalah benda jamak, maka penggunaan kata ganti it tidak
tepat. Seharusnya yang digunakan adalah their.

12. The Pilgrims were 102 English emigrants whom, after arriving on the
Mayflower, became the firstEuropean settlers in New England.

Jawaban : A
Keyword : emigrants
Pembahasan : Karena adjective clause pada kalimat tersebut sebagai pengganti subjek untuk
orang, maka seharusnya yang digunakan adalah who, bukan whom.

13. When them strike, the cobras raise themselves high above the ground on their tails and
then fall forward.

Jawaban : A
Keyword : when them strike
Pembahasan : Kata ganti yang diperlukan pada kalimat ini seharusnya kata ganti untuk subjek.
Jadi them tidak tepat karena merupakan kata ganti untuk objek. Seharusnya yang digunakan
adalah they.

14. Quasars, which relatively small objects, emit an enormous amount of energy.

Jawaban : A
Keyword : which relatively
Pembahasan : Karena adjective clause harus dalam bentuk klausa, seharusnya which are
relatively.

15. The philanthropist did not feel sad when he donated his only to the museum.

Jawaban : D
Keyword : his only to the museum
Pembahasan : Possessive adjective harus diikuti noun. Jadi pilihan yang mungkin adalah his only
money.

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