Different types of sentences can vary the tone of conversation and express a variety of thoughts and emotions. Understanding the structures will help you build the sentence easily.
Active sentence is where the subject of the sentence does an action to the object of the sentence. It is subject focus. A simple subject-focus sentence consists of: subject + transitive verb + object.
Transitive Active
Transitive Active sentence requires object of action. The subject comes before the verb and the object and followed by a prefix me-, me- -kan or me- -i. The predicate is the transitive verb.
The structure would be Subject + Predicate + Object (SPO).
- Candra + menulis + lagu
- Subject + me- Transitive Verb + Object
- Candra + writes + a song
- Saya + mengerjakan + PR
- Subject + me- Transitive Verb -kan + Object
- I + do + the homework
- Ibu + menyirami + tanaman
- Subject + me- Transitive Verb -i + Object
- Mother + is watering + the plant
Intransitive Active
Intransitive Active sentence requires no object. The predicate is intransitive verbs.
The structure would be Subject + Predicate (SP).
- Mira tidur.
- Mira sleeps.
- Saya bekerja
- I work.