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Subjunctive and Preference 1. Soal Subjunctive Subjunctive digunakan untuk menyatakan suatu keinginan atau keadaan yang tak terpenuhi atau untuk menyatakan situasi yang bertentangan dengan fakta. Ada dua bentuk subjunctive, yaitu present subjunctive dan past subjunctive. Beberapa kata yang menunjukkan subjunctive yaitu: wish, if only, would rather, as if, as though, suppose, atau would rather. A. Present Subjunctive Kata kerja yang digunakan dalam bentuk present subjunctive adalah kata kerja ke-2, sedang to be yang digunakan adalah were untuk semua subjek.  



I wish I knew his address now. = I am sorry I don’t know his address now. I wish I were happy now. = I am sorry I am not happy now.



B. Past Subjunctive Sedangkan wish + (that) subject dalam bentuk past perfect digunakan untuk past subjunctive.  



I wish (that) I hadn’t spent much money. = I was sorry I spent much money. I wish I had been rich. = I was sorry I wasn’t rich.



Contoh-contoh kalimat subjunctive 1. He is sitting quietly as if he were exhausted. 2. If only he had eaten many apples yesterday. 3. I would rather you came back now. 4. Suppose I got there early. 5. He laughs loudly as though nothing happened. 6. I wish I could speak English well. 2. Soal Preference (Pilihan) Sedangkan Preference adalah ungkapan untuk menyatakan pilihan atau kesukaan. Biasanya dinyatakan dalam struktur kalimat-kalimat berikut.    



prefer ........to........ like .......better than........ would rather......... than...... would prefer........rather than.......



Jika pilihannya kata benda:  I prefer apples to oranges.  I like apples better than oranges.  I would rather have apples than oranges.  I would prefer tea rather than coffee. Jika pilihannya kata kerja:  I prefer dancing to singing.  I like dancing better than singing.  I would rather dance than sing.  I would prefer to dance rather than sing.