Bentuk Pronoun dalam Soal

TOEFL

Pronoun atau kata ganti adalah kata yang menggantikan kata benda atau
frasa benda. Ada beragam bentuk pronoun dan fungsinya dalam bahasa
Inggris. Hal ini dapat dijadikan strategi untuk menganalisa soal pada
bagian Structure and Written Expression ketika menghadapi tes TOEFL.
Anda harus mengidentifikasi kesesuaian fungsi pronoun tersebut dalam
kalimat, apakah sebagai subject, object, atau ungkapan kepemilikan saja.

Selain itu, Anda juga perlu mengidentifikasi rujukan atau kata yang
digantikannya dan menganalisa kesesuaian kategori pronoun tersebut,
apakah singular atau plural, person atau non person,
dan male atau female.
 Jenis pronoun

Ada beberapa jenis pronoun, yaitu:

1. Personal pronoun sebagai subjek:
Yaitu I, you, he, she, it, we, dan they.
Contoh:
• I go to school early.
• She had breakfast an hour ago.
2. Personal pronoun sebagai objek:
Yaitu me, you, him, her, it, us, dan them.
Contoh:
• Ali visited me.
• He went to Jakarta with them.
3. Possessive adjective
Yaitu my, your, his, her, its, our, dan their.
Possessive adjective bisa berfungsi sebagai objek juga sebagai subjek, tetapi tidak
berdiri sendiri.
Contoh:
• My mother went to Mecca. (subjek)
• I visited our grandmother. (objek)
4. Possessive pronoun
Yaitu mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, dan theirs.
Possessive pronoun merupakan kata ganti kepunyaan yang berdiri sendiri (tidak diikuti
kata benda).
Contoh:
• This big house is theirs.
• Tina is a friend of mine.
5. Reflexive/emphatic pronoun
Yaitu myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, dan
themselves.
Reflexive pronoun digunakan untuk menyatakan suatu perbuatan
yang tanpa disadari (gerakan refleks).
Contoh:
• When I was cutting bread, I cut myself.
• She looks at herself in the looking glass.
Emphatic pronoun self form digunakan untuk menegaskan (to
emphasize) arti kata.
Contoh:
• I myself got to the office. (saya sendiri)
• He himself made the boat. (dialah sendiri)
• He made the boat itself. (hanya perahu yang dia buat)
Relative pronoun

Position Person Thing

Subject who that

Possessive whose of which the

Object whom/that that/which

Preposition whom [preposition] which [preposition]

Contoh :

Subject:
1) The man is my uncle. He is wearing a cap.
The man who is wearing a cap is my uncle.
2) The woman is my mother. She went to Mecca.
The woman who went to Mecca is my mother.
Object
1) The girl is my friend. I saw her last night.
The girl whom I saw last night is my friend.
Possesive
1) The girl has left the room. I want to talk to her mother.
The girl whose mother I want to talk to has left the room.
Preposition
1) The man is generous. I borrowed the car from him.
The man from whom I borrowed the car is generous.
Contoh Soal TOEFL Pronouns dan Pembahasannya
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

7. Angiosperms inhabit relatively diverse environments and

may be found _____ higher plants can survive.
A. There
B. Wherever
C. Somewhere
D. Then
8. _____ hardiness, daylilies can be cultivated particularly easily.
A. Their
B. Since their
C. It is their
D. Because of 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

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