Rabu, 04 Maret 2015

Sentence: Getting into the ingredients, Bowl 4: Complement

Complement in Indonesian sentence is an explanation of how the predicate is doing or where it takes place. Thus, bowl 4 consists of adverbs and prepositional phrases. We need to choose one of them to be the complement in a  sentence.

Adverbs are group of words that contain the information of when and how an action is done.
In English we have suffix -ly to make an adverb. In this case, Indonesian we don't have suffix, instead we have words that fall into the category of adverb of time and adverb of manner.

Adverb of time in Indonesia, for example: kemarin (yesterday), sekarang (now), besok (tomorrow), nanti (later), pagi (morning), etc.
However, adverb of manner in Indonesian is created by grouping 'dengan' (with) with an  adjective or a noun, for example:

1. Saya belajar matematika besok.
  'I will study math tomorrow.'
2. Saya memakai baju dengan cepat.
  'I put on clothes quickly.'

Complement using a prepositional phrase consists of preposition + place/ time. Prepositions in Indonesian, for example: di (at/ in/ on), dalam (in), dari (from), kepada (to), etc.

3. Saya makan ikan di pantai.
   'I eat fish on the beach.'
4. Saya mengirim surat kepada Lala.
   'I send a letter to Lala.'

These examples aim to make it easier for us to recognize the part of the sentence, the four bowls. To hope that after this you can cook your own sentence using these ingredients.

Happy cooking. :)