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Adjectives

Definition
Adjectives are words that describe or modify another person or thing in the sentence. The Articles — a, an, and the — are adjectives.
the tall professor
the lugubrious lieutenant
a solid commitment
a month's pay
a six-year-old child
the unhappiest, richest man
If a group of words containing a subject and verb acts as an adjective, it is called an Adjective Clause. My sister, who is much older than I am, is an engineer. If an adjective clause is stripped of its subject and verb, the resulting modifier becomes an Adjective Phrase : He is the man who is keeping my family in the poorhouse.
Before getting into other usage considerations, one general note about the use — or over-use — of adjectives: Adjectives are frail; don't ask them to do more work than they should. Let your broad-shouldered verbs and nouns do the hard work of description. Be particularly cautious in your use of adjectives that don't have much to say in the first place: interesting, beautiful, lovely, exciting. It is your job as a writer to create beauty and excitement and interest, and when you simply insist on its presence without showing it to your reader — well, you're convincing no one.
Consider the uses of modifiers in this adjectivally rich paragraph from Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel. (Charles Scribner's, 1929, p. 69.) Adjectives are highlighted in this color; participles, verb forms acting as adjectives, are highlighted in this blue. Some people would argue that words that are part of a name — like "East India Tea House — are not really adjectival and that possessive nouns — father's, farmer's — are not technically adjectives, but we've included them in our analysis of Wolfe's text.
He remembered yet the East India Tea House at the Fair, the sandalwood, the turbans, and the robes, the cool interior and the smell of India tea; and he had felt now the nostalgic thrill of dew-wet mornings in Spring, the cherry scent, the cool clarion earth, the wet loaminess of the garden, the pungent breakfast smells and the floating snow of blossoms. He knew the inchoate sharp excitement of hot dandelions in young earth; in July, of watermelons bedded in sweet hay, inside a farmer's covered wagon; of cantaloupe and crated peaches; and the scent of orange rind, bitter-sweet, before a fire of coals. He knew the good male smell of his father's sitting-room; of the smooth worn leather sofa, with the gaping horse-hair rent; of the blistered varnished wood upon the hearth; of the heated calf-skin bindings; of the flat moist plug of apple tobacco, stuck with a red flag; of wood-smoke and burnt leaves in October; of the brown tired autumn earth; of honey-suckle at night; of warm nasturtiums, of a clean ruddy farmer who comes weekly with printed butter, eggs, and milk; of fat limp underdone bacon and of coffee; of a bakery-oven in the wind; of large deep-hued stringbeans smoking-hot and seasoned well with salt and butter; of a room of old pine boards in which books and carpets have been stored, long closed; of Concord grapes in their long white baskets.
An abundance of adjectives like this would be uncommon in contemporary prose. Whether we have lost something or not is left up to you.

Sumber : http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/adjectives.htm

Tugas Softskill Bulan Ke Dua

EXERCISE 26 PAGE 107
Well
Intense
Brightly
Fluent
Fluently
Smooth
Accurately
Bitter
Soon
Fast

EXERCISE 27 PAGE 109
Terrible
Well
Good
Calmly
Sick
Quickly
Diligently
Vehemently
Relaxedly
Noisy

EXERCISE 28 PAGE 114
As soon as
More important than
The same well as
More expensive than
The same hot as
More talented than
More colorful than
More happy than
Less bad than
Faster than

EXERCISE 29 PAGE 114
Than
As
From
Than
Than
Than
As
Than
Than
Than

EXERCISE 30 PAGE 117
Best
Happier
Faster
Creamiest
More colorful
Better
Good
More awkwardly
Least
Prettiest
The best
Than
Less impressive
The sicker
When
Twice as much as
Few
Many
Farthest
More Famous

EXERCISE 31 PAGE 118
Twelve stories
Languages
Three acts
Two days
79 pieces
Five shelves
16 ounces
Six quarts
Bricks
Ten speeds

EXERCISE 32 PAGE 120
Enough people
French enough
Enough time
Fast enough
Soon enough
Early enough
Hard enough
Slowly enough
Enough flour
Enough books

APA ITU LESS CASH SOCIETY?

APA ITU LESS CASH SOCIETY?

Less cash society secara harfiah dapat diterjemahkan sebagai masyarakat yang semakin sedikit memanfaatkan uang tunai dalam transaksi sehari-hari. Bank Indonesia sebagai bank central sejak bertahun-tahun lalu berupaya mengarahkan agar masyarakat semakin terbiasa bertransaksi tanpa uang tunai. Bertransaksi tanpa uang tunai dapata dilakukan dengan berbagai macam cara, seperti memanfaatkan uang elektronik, kartu kredit, kartu debit, maupun transfer.

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Semakin banyaknya pilihan dan semakin mudahnya bertransaksi secara non tunai diharapkan mampu mendorong masyarakat untuk mencoba bertransaksi tanpa melibatkan uang tunai. Pada tahap selanjutnya, jika sudah berkali-kali mencoba, maka akan terbiasa.

Mengapa harusberalih dari transaksi tunai ke non tunai? Sebagaimana telah dijelaskan dalam artikel sebelumnya, manfaat transaksi non tunai adalah lebih efisien, aman, dan transparan karena semua tercatat.

Di negara-negara maju, transaksi non tunai telah menjadi bagian dari gaya hidup warganya. Baik transaksi dalam nominal besar ataupun kecil, mereka telah terbiasa menggunakan teknologi sistem pembayaran tanpa uang tunai. Membeli kopi hingga membelimobil, semuanya dilakukan tanpa menggunakan uang tunai.

Sebaliknya, di negara-negara berkembang, pemanfaatan transaksi non tunai masih belum terlalu familiar. Masyarakat masih merasa lebih nyaman bertransaksi menggunakan uang tunai karena terlihat secara fisik.

Namun demikian, seiring dengan perkembangan teknologi serta edukasi yang terus dilakukan oleh Bank Indonesia yang bekerja sama dengan berbagai pihak, diharapkan masyarakat akan semakin mengenal transaksi non tunai dan mulai memanfaatkannya.

Ketika semua telah terbiasa menggunakan transaksi non tunai, akankah uang tunai akan lenyap? Tentu saja tidak. Dalam berbagai kesempatan, keberadaan uang tunai masih akan tetap diperlukan. Hanya saja, porsinya akan semakin mengecil.