Contoh Soal Review , Caption in Various Contexts
Contoh Soal Review , Caption in Various Contexts - Captions are mostly supposed to draw the viewers’ attention, thereby making attractive and effective caption is a need. There are at least two important considerations when making captions, namely conciseness and relevance.
Conciseness: the caption expresses what needs to be said without unnecessary words.
Relevance: the caption relates to the text and picture to guide the viewers to the content of the media.
Relevance: the caption relates to the text and picture to guide the viewers to the content of the media.
As in any other written expression, the etiquette in captioning should also follow the standard grammatical rules. Derivatives and noun phrases are ones of grammatical features commonly found in captions. Derivation is forming new words from the existing root word and often involves the addition of prefix-affix such as pre-, –ness, un-, -tion/-ation, -sion, -ure, -al, -ment and so on.
One of the grammatical features that often find in captions besides derivatives is noun phrases. A noun phrase is a phrase with a noun as the head word. The head word is modified by some adjectives, adverbials, other nouns, or articles called modifiers.
Look, the green words are the modifier, while the red ones are the head word or the noun. As any other noun, a noun phrase also takes a role of object, subject, or complement in a sentence, and any noun phrase can be replaced into pronoun.
compare to the following example.
Do you understand?
Look at the caption on the following bottles.
The caption of the first picture said, "A healthy outside starts from the inside while the second caption said, 100% good drink inside
So, which one is noun phrase?
In the first caption there is this predicate starts, so it will not be a phrase anymore, it is a sentence. In the second caption we find no predicate, so the caption belongs to a phrase.
In the first caption there is this predicate starts, so it will not be a phrase anymore, it is a sentence. In the second caption we find no predicate, so the caption belongs to a phrase.
Sentence: "A healthy outside starts from the inside
Noun phrase: 100% good drink inside
Noun phrase: 100% good drink inside
S1
Borobudur is one of the famous ... sites in Indonesia.
The most appropriate word to complete is ....
S2
Arrange the following words into a grammatically correct noun phrase.
the1 - number2 - of3 - increasing4 - an5 - visitor6 - to7 - zoo8
S3
The most appropriate noun phrase to replace the caption is ….
S4
Pay attention to the situation in the picture.
The followings are suitable captions for the picture, except ….
S5
The following text is to answer question 5 to 7.
Indonesia is a tropical country, so we only experience two seasons, namely rainy season and summer. We almost never get ... (5) since we do not experience winter. We also hardly experience a windy periods of time which usually come in fall and spring. In our country the windy weather usually comes in a short period when the season changes from rainy season to summer on February or March. The wind direction strongly influences weather and we never have it hit too hard. So we almost never experience an extreme weather due to the wind direction in summer or even in our rainy season.
S6
The following text is to answer question 5 to 7.
Indonesia is a tropical country, so we only experience two seasons, namely rainy season and summer. We almost never get ... (5) since we do not experience winter. We also hardly experience a windy periods of time which usually come in fall and spring. In our country the windy weather usually comes in a short period when the season changes from rainy season to summer on February or March. The wind direction strongly influences weather and we never have it hit too hard. So we almost never experience an extreme weather due to the wind direction in summer or even in our rainy season.
The wind direction strongly influences weather and we never have it hit too hard.
The word it in the sentence refers to ….
S7
One of the relevant factors in making a caption is ....
S8
The following article is to answer question 9.
According to the caption, the article is about the following. Choose the best answer!
S9
Decide the head word for each following noun phrase respectively.
- Striking economic crisis in Indonesia
- Restaurant business bankruptcy
- Crisis-affected restaurants