Pengertian: Inverted Sentence adalah kalimat yang susunan subjek dan predikatnya dibalik dari struktur normal untuk penekanan atau karena aturan tata bahasa tertentu.

Struktur Normal: Subject + Verb + Object

Struktur Inverted: Verb + Subject (atau bagian kalimat lain mendahului subjek)

Jenis-jenis Inverted Sentence:

• 1. Negative Adverbial: Kata keterangan negatif diletakkan di awal kalimat.
  Contoh: Never, Rarely, Hardly, Not only, Little
• 2. Conditional (tanpa 'if'): Dalam kondisi formal, 'if' bisa dihilangkan dengan inversi.
  Contoh: Had I known...
• 3. So + Adjective/Adverb + that: Untuk penekanan.
  Contoh: So beautiful was the view...

Contoh Kalimat:

• Normal: I had never seen such a thing.
• Inverted: Never had I seen such a thing.
• Normal: If I had known, I would have helped you.
• Inverted: Had I known, I would have helped you.
• Normal: The view was so beautiful that I cried.
• Inverted: So beautiful was the view that I cried.

Pengertian: Preference digunakan untuk menyatakan pilihan atau kesukaan terhadap sesuatu dibandingkan hal lain.

Ekspresi yang umum digunakan:

• would rather + base verb
• would prefer + to + verb
• prefer + verb-ing + to + verb-ing
• like better / enjoy more

Perbedaan Penggunaan:

Ekspresi	Struktur	Contoh
would rather	Subject + would rather + V1	I would rather stay home.
prefer	Subject + prefer + V-ing + to + V-ing	She prefers reading to watching TV.
would prefer	Subject + would prefer + to + V	He would prefer to eat now.
like better	Subject + like + noun + better	I like coffee better than tea.

Contoh Kalimat Lain:

• I would rather sleep early tonight.
• They prefer listening to podcasts to watching videos.
• We would prefer to travel by car.
• She likes pizza better than burgers.

Pengertian: Article adalah kata sandang yang digunakan sebelum noun untuk menunjukkan apakah noun tersebut spesifik atau umum.

Jenis Article:

• Indefinite Articles: a dan an → digunakan untuk noun yang umum atau tidak spesifik.
• Definite Article: the → digunakan untuk noun yang spesifik atau sudah diketahui.

Penggunaan 'a' atau 'an':

• a digunakan sebelum kata yang diawali dengan bunyi konsonan.
  Contoh: a car, a teacher, a house
• an digunakan sebelum kata yang diawali dengan bunyi vokal (a, e, i, o, u).
  Contoh: an apple, an hour, an idea

Penggunaan 'the':

• Ketika noun sudah diketahui oleh pembicara dan pendengar.
• Hanya ada satu benda tersebut (the sun, the moon).
• Dengan superlative adjectives (the best, the biggest).

Contoh Kalimat:

• I saw a cat in the garden. (kucing tidak spesifik)
• She ate an orange this morning. (buah dengan vokal awal)
• The cat was chasing a mouse. (kucingnya sudah diketahui)
• Look at the moon. It's beautiful tonight.
• He is the best player on the team.