Interesting Question: Soalan Menarik Posted bymalay3September 23, 2011September 23, 2011Posted inDigital Malay Literacy, E-Learning in Malay pedagogy 1.How can I change the sentence ‘Jumlah pelancong ke Singapura meningkat 20.7 peratus ke 950,000’ into a transitive but not a passive question? Ans: Jumlah pelancong ke Singapura naik 20.7 peratus ke… 2. But I can’t ask naik ‘apa’. but i will have to ask naik ‘berapa’ right? so how is this a transtive sentence? Note that naik is stronger than meningkat because meningkat is a derived verb: meN + tingkat; naik stands alone. The test on the difference also shows that naik is testable with apa. Naik apa? Vs. *meningkat apa? We can say naik kereta to the test. There seems no answer for meningkat in the test. That is why i offer naik when you asked for a transitive version to meningkat. Things become tricky with a value …naik 20%; its transitivity is weakened. The reason as told is due to value bringing abstractness that is bound with berapa as a grammar norm. Berapa X; whereby X is a value or number. Hence, we may say that Jumlah pelancong ke Singapura naik 20% is more transitive than Jumlah pelancong ke Singapura meningkat 20%. This concurs with the findings published in Language 1980 that transitivity is a matter of degree not a straight forward phenomenon. There is little clear-cut division in humanities, is there? Hence fate, fortune-telling, karma and other fluid concepts are used to relieve the discomfort of everyday arbitrariness. terima kasih dan soalan daripada Cik Loshini Share this:FacebookXLike Loading... Related
Terima Kasih Cikgu:) I understand better now. You are the best Malay teacher the world could have:) Reply
Terima Kasih Cikgu:) I understand better now. You are the best Malay teacher the world could have:)
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