STRUCTURE AND WRITTEN EXPRESSION

Select the correct answer from the four choices given!

1. Caroline should delay ... around the world since her grand mother gets a terrible heart attack.
A. travels
B. to travel
C. travelling
D. for travelling

2. The lecturer had his students ... the project as soon as possible.
A. finish
B. finished
C. finishing
D. to finish

3. Dina keeps on doing her Math project ... she has a lot of things to do.
A. in spite of
B. although
C. despite
D. because

4. Most of the students ... notes in the seminar got surprising rewards.
A. taking
B. that took
C. which taking
D. take

5. Kevin can’t understand how ... the required documents.

A. did the panels identify
B. were the panels identify
C. the panels identify
D. the panels were identifying

6. My parents get me ... the new neighbor in the evening.

A. to call on
B. call on
C. call off
D. called

7. Naina buys ... with her own money.

A. her first Japanese expensive red dress
B. her expensive first Japanese red dress
C. her first expensive red Japanese dress
D. her expensive Japanese first red dress

8. Robert builds ... a big company that it takes three months to decorate it.
A. Very
B. So
C. Such
D. Such as

9. ... when her brother went to Singapore.

A. She hardly had cleaned the house
B. Hardly had she cleaned the house
C. She had cleaned the house hardly
D. Hardly she had cleaned the house

10. ... the students would have finished the sophisticated project.
A. Had the lecturer explained the materials in details
B. If the lecturer explained the materials in details
 C. If the lecturer explains the materials in details
D. Did the lecturer explained the materials in details

11. Many ... eat the grass in the yard.

A. sheep
B. sheeps
C. sheepes
D. sheepens

12. The shopkeeper mentioned that the red bag is ... than the blue one.
A. inexpensive
B. inexpensiver
C. more inexpensive
D. the most inexpensive

13. They want to buy a new ... to support their job.

A. fishing boat
B. boat fishing
C. fished boat
D. fishen boat

14. Abner, ... , was given a credit because of his invention.

A. the young researcher
B. research
C. to research
D. been a researcher

15. Dawson studies ... to pass the international test.

A. hardly
B. hard
C. to be hard
D. rude
ERROR RECOGNITION

Choose the one word or phrase which would not be appropriate in standard written English!

16. The song writing by Dewey is the most emotional song that I have ever known.
A B C D

17. So they ask their children to continue their studies in London, Vizta and her husband want to get the best
A B C

education for their children.

D

18. Owing to the requirement of the undergraduate thesis consultation, I have such many interesting books that
A B C D

I must read in this semester.

19. The professor lets the students to pursue a foreign master degree scholarship for the coming year.
A B C D

20. Bali is a wonderful island in Indonesia whose provides numerous tourism objects.
A B C D

21. By the end of this year, Shanti will be living in the apartment for three years.
A B C D

22. Nicholas likes playing snake and ladder better than to play hide and seek in the yard.
A B C D

23. The faster you take the test, the best you know your capability.
A B C D

24. The survey finds that most of persons want to get a better life earlier.
A B C D

25. She would rather has a beautiful big bag than an expensive small bag.
A B C D

26. I would love to accompany her to find an English dictionary if she was here.
A B C D

27. She wants to buy an English dictionary whom consists of at least three hundred pages.
A B C D

28. Because of the speaking evaluation The students keep on tell a short story one another.
A B C D

29. Rarely she did not finish the difficult homework assignments on time.
A B C D

30. She barely speaks English fluently and neither does not they.
A B C D
KUNCI DAN PEMBAHASAN | Paket Soal Latihan TBI - 1

1. Jawaban : C
Setelah kata ‘delay’ harus diikuti oleh gerund (V-ing) – travelling.

2. Jawaban : A
Setelah causative – had maka harus diikuti Infinitive (Verb 1) – finish.

3. Jawaban : B
Pada soal ini konteksnya adalah pertentangan.
Dina tetap mengerjakan proyek Matematikanya ... dia memiliki banyak hal yang harus dilakukan.
Jawaban yang paling tepat adalah although karena setelah (...) ada Subject (she) + Verb (has).

4. Jawaban : A
Pada soal ini kita hnya membutuhkan adjective untuk melengkapi informasi pada ‘most of the
students’, sehingga jawaban yang paling tepat adalah taking.

5. Jawaban : C
Setelah connector – how maka harus diikuti Subject + Verb.

6. Jawaban : A
Setelah causative – get maka harus diikuti ‘to + Verb 1’.

7. Jawaban : C
Sesuai urutan penyusunan Noun Phrase ;
Determiner – Ordinal – Opinion – Size – Age – Temperature – Shape – Colour – Origin – Material – Past
Participle – Classifying – Headword

8. Jawaban : C
Jawaban yang paling tepat adalah such; setelah tanda (...) diberikan clue berupa Noun Phrase – a big
company dan ada clue kata that.

9. Jawaban : B
Opsi A s/d Opsi D semuanya ada kata ‘hardly’ yang menandakan negatif. Oleh karena itu, jawaban
yang paling tepat adalah yang dalam bentuk inversion – Hardly had she cleaned the house.

10. Jawaban : A
Pada soal ini terdapat clue ‘would have finished’ – maka ini adalah If Conditional Tipe III yaitu:
If + Subject + had + Verb 3, Subject + would have + Verb 3 – bentuk Inversi-nya:
Had + Subject + Verb 3, Subject + would have + Verb 3

11. Jawaban : A
Pada soal ini terdapat clue berupa kata ‘many’, dan Opsi A s/d Opsi D berasal dari kata dasar “sheep”
yang tergolong dalam kata yang masuk Irregular plural noun
Singular : Sheep
Plural : Sheep

12. Jawaban : C
Pada soal ini terdapat clue kata ‘than’ maka jawaban yang tepat harus dalam bentuk comparative
degree. Oleh karena itu jawabn yang paling tepat adalah more inexpensive.

13. Jawaban : A
Sesuai urutan penyusunan Noun Phrase ;
 Determiner – Ordinal – Opinion – Size – Age – Temperature – Shape – Colour – Origin – Material – Past
Participle – Classifying – Headword

14. Jawaban : A
Teori Appositive
Appositive, Subject, Verb

15. Jawaban : B
Pada soal ini terdapat:
Subject : Dawson
Verb: studies
Maka membutuhkan Adverb, yaitu hard.

16. Jawaban : A
Subject dalam kalimat ini adalah ‘the song’ – yaitu benda, maka Opsi A seharusnya adalah written.

17. Jawaban : A
‘Connector – So’ tidak boleh diletakkan di awal kalimat.

18. Jawaban : C
Kat such seharusnya adalah so karena ada kata clue kata many dan ada clue kata that.

19. Jawaban : B
Kata ‘to pursue’ seharusnya adalah pursue karena causative – lets harus diikuti Infinitive.

20. Jawaban : C
Kata ‘whose’ seharusnya adalah which karena sebagai relative clause.

21. Jawaban : B
Kata ‘will be living’ adalah will have been living udah ada clue kata ‘by the end of ... for ... ‘, maka ini
adalah Future Perfect Continuous.

22. Jawaban : C
Kata ‘to play’ seharusnya adalah playing; harus parallel dengan likes playing.

23. Jawaban : B
Kata ‘ the best’ seharusnya adalah the better; teori parallel dengan the faster.

24. Jawaban : B
Kata ‘persons’ seharusnya adalah people karena ada kata most; bentuk jamak dari dari person adalah
people.

25. Jawaban : A
Kata ‘has’ seharusnya adalah have karena yang ada hanyalah would rather have.

26. Jawaban : D
Kata ‘was’ seharusnya adalah were.
Pada soal ini terdapat clue ‘would love’ – maka ini adalah If Conditional Tipe II yaitu:
If + Subject + Verb 2/were , Subject + would + Verb 1

27. Jawaban : C
Kata ‘whom’ seharusnya adalah which karena sebagai relative clause.

28. Jawaban : D
Kata ‘tell’ seharusnya adalah telling karena setelah kata keep harus diikuti oleh gerund (V-ing).
29. Jawaban : A
Kata ‘she did not’ seharusnya adalah did she karena sudah ada kata ‘rarely’ yang menandakan
negative and inversion.

30. Jawaban : D
Kata ‘does not’ seharusnya adalah do (auxiliary verb untuk subject They) karena sudah ada kata
‘neither’.