Describing Things

Untuk frasa benda (Noun Phrase) yang terdiri lebih dari 2

kata, penyusunannya mengikuti pola
D O E C H, yaitu :

D = Determiner, meliputi :
a. article (kata sandang) : a, an, the
b. possessive (kata ganti milik) : my, your, his
c. demonstrative (kata ganti penunjuk) : this, that,
those
d. quantitatives (penunjuk jumlah) : some, many, a lot
O = Ordinative, meliputi :
a. numerals (kata bilangan) : one, two, three
b. kata sifat yang memiliki bentuk komparatif er dan
superlative est/ most dan very
misalnya :
the two students
D O H
a smaller class
D O H
the most interesting story
D O H
a very challenging activity
D O H
E = Epithet, meliputi :
kata sifat yang biasa memiliki bentuk komparatif er,
more, most dan very, tetapi dalam hal ini bentuk
komparatifnya tidak dicantumkan
misalnya :
a strong man
D E H
tetapi : a very strong man
D O H
dan a stronger man
D O H

C = Classifying, meliputi :
kata benda yang berfungsi sebagai kata sifat, misalnya :
Indonesia singers
C H
the national movement
D C H
a swimming pool
D C H
his gold watch
D C H

H = Head Word, meliputi :
kata utama/ pokok dalam frasa
misalnya :
a swimming suit
D C H
the most beautiful American lady
D O C H

susunan D O E C H tersebut tidak boleh diputarbalikkan

Apabila dalam suatu frasa benda terdapat lebih dari satu epithet, kita
mengurutkannya dengan pola sbb :
E = Di Si A T Sha Co

Keterangan :
Di = Descriptive Enumerator, yaitu kata sifat seperti : bad,
good, beautiful, pretty, boring, interesting
Si = Size, yaitu ukuran seperti : big, small, wide, narrow,
little, short, long
A = Age, yaitu umur seperti : new, old, young
T = Temperature, yaitu suhu seperti : hot, cold, cool, warm
Sha = Shape, yaitu bentuk seperti : round, flat, square,
triangular
Co = Colour, yaitu warna seperti : black, red, green, yellow

Contoh :
1. his beautiful large new square white house
D E (Di) E (Si) E(A) E (Sha) E (Co) H

2. an interesting thick old black story book
D E (Di) E (Si) E (A) E (Co) C H

3. the pretty deep cold mountain river
D E (Di) E (Si) E (T) C H

OPINION SIZE AGE SHAPE COLOUR ORIGIN MATERIAL PURPOSE
What do you
think about
something?
How big or small is
it?
How old or young
someone or
something is?
What is the shape? What colour is it? Where is it from? What is it made of? What is it used for?
pretty, ugly, silly,
smart, easy,
fun...
small, tiny, large,
enormous, big...
old, young,
adolescent, new,
ancient...
square, triangular,
irregular, flat,
round...
red, blue, magenta,
pinkish...
British, Chinese,
French, Brazilian,
western, lunar...
silver, gold,
copper, wood,
plastic, cotton...
racing (car),
football (field)
frying (pan)
1. He was wearing a ________ shirt.
dirty old flannel
flannel old dirty
old dirty flannel

2. Pass me the ________ cups.
plastic big blue
big blue plastic
big plastic blue

3. All the girls fell in love with the ________ teacher.
handsome new American
American new handsome
new handsome American



4. I used to drive ________ car.
a blue old German
an old German blue
an old blue German

5. He recently married a ________ woman.
young beautiful Greek
beautiful young Greek
beautiful Greek young

6. This is a ________ movie.
new Italian wonderful
wonderful Italian new
wonderful new Italian

7. She is a ________ supermodel.
beautiful slim Brazilian
Brazilian beautiful slim
slim Brazilian beautiful

8. It's in the ________ container.
large blue metal
blue large metal
blue metal large

9. He sat behind a ________ desk.
big wooden brown
big brown wooden
wooden big brown

10. She gave him a ________ vase.
small Egyptian black
black Egyptian small
small black Egyptian

exercises
1. Ring old an unusual gold
2. Lady nice an old
3. House attractive the modern
4. Leather black gloves
5. Metal black the- box small
6. Village a little lovely old
7. Young five Chinese pretty artists
8. Big old red the car
9. Rooms large good three
[Link] long beautiful - black