VERB (CONTINOUS) VS PRESENT PARTICIPLE

- POLA PRESENT CONTIONOUS

*SUBJECT + TOBE (AM/IS/ARE) + VING

EXAMPLE:

--->SHE IS READING A BOOK

- POLA PAST CONTIONOUS

*SUBJECT + TOBE (WAS/WERE) + VING

----->THEY WERE DISCUSSING ABOUT THE COVID-19

-POLA PRESENT PERFECT CONTIONOUS

*SUBJECT + HAS/HAVE+BEEN + VING

------> SHE HAS BEEN GIVING SEMINAR

--------> THEY HAVE BEEN MANAGING THEIR OWN BUSINESS

-POLA PAST PERFECT CONTIONOUS

*SUBJECT + HAD +BEEN + VING

----> MR ANTON AND MR ZACK HAD BEEN TRAVELING AROUND THE WORLD

NOTE;

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Present participle dapat menyebabkan kebingungan para kandidate dalam mengambil test TOEFL karena
present participle ini bisa “BAGIAN DARI KATA SIFAT ATAU KATA KERJA”

Ciri-ciri present participle :

 V+ing (ing-form)
 Adjective
 Kalimat aktif

Note: bisa menjadi bagian kata kerja ketika ada “TOBE” nya
Example
• The train is arriving at the station now.
Di dalam kalimat ini , “arriving” adalah bagian kata kerja karena ada tobe ‘is” yang di sebut sebagai
“PRESENT CONTINOUS”
Note: dikatakan sebagai “PRESENT PARTICIPLE” kalau tidak ada “tobe”
Example
• The train arriving at the station now is an hour late
Di dalam kalimat ini, “arriving” adalah adjective dan bukan bagian kata kerja karena tidak memiliki ‘tobe” .
Verb utama dari kalimat ini “is an hour late”

Example;
The film ........... appearing at the local theatre is my favorite
a. Now
b. Is
c. It
d. Was

Jawaban : A.
Karena kalau kita pilih “B” double verb ‘is” sedangkan option C double ‘subject’ dan option D sama double
verb “was”

 
1. When the phone rang, she was ...... a letter *
a. Writes
b. Writing
c. Wrote
d. Write

 
2. The engine ...... smoothly when it suddenly stopped. *
a. Runs
b. Running
c. Has run
d. Was running

Jawaban yang benar

d. Was running

 
3. Pluto’s moon, Charon, ............. in a slightly eleptical path around the planet. *
a. Moving
b. Is moving
c. It was moving
d. In its moving

 
4. My father, together with mother, ........ in the garden all day yesterday. *
a. Was working
b. Were working
c. Working
d. Work

Jawaban yang benar

a. Was working

 
5. Each object ....... Jupiter’s magnetic field is deluged with the electric charges *
a. Enters
b. It enters
c. Entering
d. Enter

 
6. Multinational companies ........... it increasingly important to employ
internationally acceptable brand names. *
a. Finding
b. Are finding
c. They find
d. They are finding

Jawaban yang benar

b. Are finding

 
7. In 1975, the first successful space probe to ............. beginning to send
information back to Earth. *
a. Venus
b. Venus the
c. Venus was
 
d. Venus it was

 
8. The sound ......... from a vibrating object will be high or low depending on the
number of vibrations. *
a. Comes
b. It is coming
c. Is coming
d. Coming

Jawaban yang benar

d. Coming

 
9. Systems .......... the two symbols 0 and 1 are called binary number systems. *
a. Use
b. They use
c. Uses
d. Using
 
 
10. Stalacties are formed in caves by groundwater ....... lime. *
a. It contains
b. Containing
c. Contains
d. Containment

 
11. A short story ........ a moral or lesson is called a fable. *
a. That illustrate
b. Illusrates
c. That it illustrates
d. Illustrating
 
 
12. Air blowing over a fairly warm sea ........ with moisture. *
a. The quick saturation
b. Quickly becomes saturated
c. It becomes saturated quickly
d. To saturate it quickly

 
13. Duke Ellington’s orchestra, ....... his own often complex compositions, made
many innovations in jazz. *
a. He played
b. Playing
c. That it played
d. Was playing

 
14. At around two years of age, many children regularly produce sentences ........
three or four words. *
a. Are containing
b. Containing
c. Contain
d. Contains

 
15. Drinking water ......... excessive amounts of fluorides causes the enamel of
teeth to become brittle and to chip off, leaving a stained or mottled effect. *
a. Containing
b. In which containing
c. Contains
d. That it contained