Contoh Soal Grammar Focus , Signal Words in Narrative Texts
Contoh Soal Grammar Focus , Signal Words in Narrative Texts - Some of you may like reading books. Based on a survey, teenagers like reading fiction books than non-fiction such story book, comic, and novel. It may be caused fictions books is entertaining. In reading a story, you will find some language features such as using proper tense and using signal words. In this lesson, you will learn how to use signal words in a text especially for narrative text. Let’s start from the definition of narrative text below.
Narrative text is a text which tells a story about an event in the past to entertain the readers. It commonly contains linking and signal words to make the order of events of the story clear. Actually, there are several signal words which are used in a text as follows:
- Signal words which indicate another main idea such as also, in addition, moreover, etc.
- Signal words which mention an example such as for example, for instance.
- Signal words which show a sequence of events such as first, second, after that, then, etc.
- Signal words which state a conclusion such as therefore, finally, in conclusion, etc.
- Signal words which tell you what tense you need to use in a text such as long time ago, yesterday, tomorrow, nest week, etc.
However, in this lesson you will focus on learning signal words which tell you the kind of tense you should use in the correct form based on the text and show a sequence of event to make a text coherent from one paragraph o another paragraph. Signal words aim to ease the readers in reading the story and getting its plot.
Signal Words for Simple Past Tense
One of language features in narrative text is using simple past tense. The signal words to show an event occurs in the past as follows:
- One day
- Yesterday
- Two days ago
- A minute ago
- Long time ago
- Once upon a time
- Last week/year/weekend
For examples:
- He was born in 1989.
- She didn't throw the seed to the Giant yesterday.
- The police was sleeping when the robber came this morning
Signal Words for Signal Words for Sequencing Event
- First/second/ the last …
- Firstly/then/after that/next/finally.
Do you understand?
Signal words can be called as a key to comprehend a story. To understand a narrative text, you can read the example of the narrative text below.
Explanation for the signal words in the text above:
- The underlined words show a sequence of events. It connects a sentence with another sentence.
- The italic words show that the story happened in the past.
S1
He beat him with a punch in the head ... threw his body into the river.
Which word is suitable to complete the sentence above? Choose from the following:
S2
....he ran away from home when her aunt and uncle were sleeping, he fled into the wood.
Which signal word is suitable to complete the sentence above?
S3
The following are signal words to show a sequence of events in a story, except ….
S4
Which sentence is not correct in using simple past signal words? Choose one of the following:
S5
...., she dropped a piece of rice in the box and in a short time the box got filled with rice.
Which phrase is NOT suitable to complete the text above?
S6
Timun Mas ran away from the Giant and took her third magic stuff. The stuff was cucumber seeds. …. she threw them until they turned into a cucumber field.
Which phrase is NOT suitable to complete the text above?
S7
The fairy-mother said, “You are beautiful and hardworking girl. I will help you from them.”
.…two coachman and footman were changed become a coach and mice by fairy godmother’s magic.
.…two coachman and footman were changed become a coach and mice by fairy godmother’s magic.
Which word is suitable to complete the story above?
S8
Read the text below to answer questions number 8, 9 and 10
Pinocchio was scared when he heard the guards came. They forced him to come out of the cage, but he ran very fast and tried to escape. Unfortunately, the evil wizard ran after him and he pulled out his wand. However, the evil devil’s magic hit the little wooden puppet and changed it into a chocolate cake! He ran, ran, and ran faster. When he arrived at home, he told the whole story to Gepetto and they immediately went to find a fairy god. After a long journey, they ....(8) found the fairy god and he gave a potion to Pinocchio.
What signal word is suitable to complete the story above?
S9
Read the text below to answer questions number 8, 9 and 10
Pinocchio was scared when he heard the guards came. They forced him to come out of the cage, but he ran very fast and tried to escape. Unfortunately, the evil wizard ran after him and he pulled out his wand. However, the evil devil’s magic hit the little wooden puppet and changed it into a chocolate cake! He ran, ran, and ran faster. When he arrived at home, he told the whole story to Gepetto and they immediately went to find a fairy god. After a long journey, they ....(8) found the fairy god and he gave a potion to Pinocchio.
What is the function of signal word?
S10
Read the text below to answer questions number 8, 9 and 10
Pinocchio was scared when he heard the guards came. They forced him to come out of the cage, but he ran very fast and tried to escape. Unfortunately, the evil wizard ran after him and he pulled out his wand. However, the evil devil’s magic hit the little wooden puppet and changed it into a chocolate cake! He ran, ran, and ran faster. When he arrived at home, he told the whole story to Gepetto and they immediately went to find a fairy god. After a long journey, they ....(8) found the fairy god and he gave a potion to Pinocchio.
The word “potion” in the last sentence can be replaced with?