Nominal and Verbal Sentences in English

The important thing to learn English is tenses, if we have mastered tenses it’s will be easy to use English. But in fact to start studying tenses, little things often overlooked. In addition; before we start learning tenses, better if we know the form of the sentence.
If the English in terms of the predicate, then it can be divided into 2 groups:

1. Verbal sentence
Where the predicate is verb.

For example:

• She studies hard every day. ( Dia belajar giat setiap hari.)
• I like to listen the jazz music. ( Saya suka mendengar music jazz.)
• We watch television together.( Sami menonton tv bersama. )

‘studies’, ‘like’, ‘watch’, etc are verb. If the views of its kind, verbal sentences can be classified into:

a. Positive verbal sentence
This sentence is often also called affirmative sentence, in general, this phrase is used to declare an event or action.
For example:

•  They walk to the school.(Dia berjalan kesekolah.)
• I helped my mother after school.(Saya membantu ibuku setelah sekolah)
• He take some pictures at there.(Dia mengambil beberapa foto di sana)

b. Negative verbal sentence
This will be negative sentences by adding 'do / does / did + not' before verb.
For example:

• The do not (don’t) walk to the school. (Mereka tidak berjalan kaki ke sekolah.)
• I did not (didn’t) help my mother after school. (saya tidak membantu ibu sayang setelah sekolah.)
• He does not (doesn’t) take some pictures at there. (Dia tidak mengambil beberapa gambar disana)

c. Interrogative verbal sentence
Interrogative verbal sentences are form by putting ‘do/does /did’ at the beginning of sentence.
For example:

•  Do they walk to school?(apakah mereka berjalan ke sekolah?)
• Did I help my mother after school ?(apakah saya membantu ibu saya setelah sekolah?
• Does he take some picture at there?(apakah dia mengambil beberapa gambar dseblah sana ?)

2. Nominal sentence
Nominal sentence is a sentence that has predicate not a verb, but can be an adjective, noun or adverb, then the nominal sentence should be inserted auxiliary verb to be like 'is, am, are, and were the resource persons / was (which is used in the past )

He / She / It      = Is
I                       = Am
You/ They / we = Are

For example:

•  She is an actress in Hollywood. (Dia adalah seorang artis Hollywood)
• They are clever student. (Mereka adalah siswa-siswa yang cerdas)
• If I were a boy, I will be able to beat you. (jika saya seorang laki-laki, saya akan dapat mengalahkanmu.)

If we view of its kind, nominal sentences can be classified into:


a. Positive nomnal sentence
This sentence is often also called affirmative sentence, in general, this phrase is used to situation, position or rank.
For example:

•  Santana is a beatifull girl.(Santana adalah seorang gadis cantik.)
• They are students in elementary school. (Mereka adalah siswa sekolah dasar.)
• He is my lecture. (Dia adalah dosen saya.)

a. Negative nominal sentence
This will be negative sentences by adding ‘not' after to be.
For example:

• Santana is not a beautiful girl.(Santana bukan seorang gadis cantik.)
• They are not students in elementary school.(Mereka bukan siswa sekolah dasar.)
• He is not my lecture. (Dia bukan dosen saya.)

b. Interrogative nominal sentence
Interrogative nominal sentences are form by putting ‘to be’ at the beginning of sentence.
For example:

• Is Santana a beautiful girl?(Apakah Santana seorang gadis cantik?)
• Are they students in elementary school.(apakah mereka siswa sekolah dasar?)
• Is he my lecture?(apakah dia dosen saya?)