A Stranger

There is a love I reminisce,

like a seed

I've neversown.

Of lips that I am yet to kiss,

and eyes

not met my own.

Hands that wrap around my wrists,

and arms

that feel like home.

I wonder how it is I miss,

these things

I've never known.

-Lang Leave-

Grief Behind Bliss

The locket glimmers crimson as rays of morning light reflected from its smooth surface. I held it in my hands and felt its coolness sting my skin. The front was a mezzo-tinted rose gold metal, and when I flipped it open, I nearly saw a reflection of myself. The minuscule photograph with its colours fading lies buried in between the frames of the locket, showing an image of a middle aged woman. Her shoulder length hair in the shade of chestnut brown was combed neatly, complementing the colour of her hazel droopy almond shaped eyes. Her angular jawline was lined symmetrically to the curve of her plump lower lip as she shows off her sweet grin. I squinted and focused my sight on her long, narrow neck and spotted a piece of carcanet that was embellished with colourful gemstones. I noticed how small her figure was, and how it contradicts the size of her huge jewelry. She looked like as if she was trying hard to straighten her back as she carries a huge chained boulder that was hung around her neck. Her image alone showed me the face of a poor, depressed woman who lived lamentably. My late mother was never happy; Callahan Davenport was the cause of her everlasting grief.

I shut my eyes tight and laid on the lush trimmed grass that tickles my elbow. Bloomed daffodils surrounded my body as the cold breeze rushed through my splayed fingers that I raised in the dewy air. I tried to catch each blow of wind that passed, but my grip can never be strong enough to catch the wind. I recalled the olden times when I was little. If I could just hold on to those times, I might claim myself to be the happiest girl ever alive. But time ticks by, and nobody could hold on to it. Life is a roller coaster ride, anyway. What more can you expect? One moment you’re on top of the world being as cheerful as ever, and the next moment you find yourself drowning in the abyss. My mother, Margaret was a widow in my memories. She once told me that my father passed away when I was 2, and I grew up without one. Margaret was the greatest woman alive, the best mother anyone could have. My life as a child was nearly perfect, until I turned 15. We were running out of the money father left for us, and my mom had no other choice but to make use of her dancing talents and went out to dance as a coryphee, to earn for a living. Her moves were flawless, I still remembered how she stood up on her toes as if she weighs nothing, and how graceful she sways and spins around. As a little girl, I thought being a ballerina was a great occupation. I thought that my mother had her dreams coming true. Mother started to leave our house earlier than usual, and came back home when I have already fallen asleep. Strangers started to come over, and every time when they did, mother always told me to go back into my room and stay silent. As naive as I was, I thought that the strangers who pop in and out of my house were mother’s business partners, great people. I had also thought about mother marrying one of them so that I could have a father who will watch me grow. But all those thoughts that appears in my mind were imaginations, all those hopes that I have for mother to marry a man were deceptions. Mother ended up choosing the wrong path in life and married a wealthy man who is no other than Sir C. Davenport.

I heard wedding bells chime in the patio as velvety rose petals rained over my brand new faux fur petticoat, a gift from Callahan. It was the wedding of Callahan and Margaret, the most blessed day of their lives as they start a new chapter in life with me as their daughter. Catastrophically, it turned out to be a tragedy that should never have happened. Callahan turned out to be cold inside out, his beating heart as hard as rock. He rebuked at the slightest mistake i make, and tormented Margaret by beating her. His mouth spoke foul words and his soul was tinted black with sin. I used to think that being a daughter of a wealthy man would completely change my life into an incredible, majestic one. But it turned out otherwise. Mother was accused of theft when Callahan’s objects that was missing, and she was tortured by slavery. The whole village would shoot her sinister looks of disgust, and their eyes would glare at my mom as if she was guilty. The nasty, repulsive rumors that were spoken behind her back would always puncture through my heart, and i will always ask myself in disbelief, ”Why would they say such horrible things?”.

My life as a child was wretched, and July was the last time I saw Margaret. Her sickly body laid on the bed as she breathed her last breath away. She looked like a rose bud that blushes pink and withers at the same moment. My mother was the only one who would do anything for my own good; the only one out there who was strong enough to withstand all those pressure she had and still was able to hold back her tears in front of me. I clutched the pendant she gave me in my trembling hands, as tears started to roll down my cheeks. Strands of my hair got carried along with the wind and brushed my wet cheeks. Here I laid in the backyard of where i used to grow up in, stuck in dilemma. In my palms I held a piece of jewelry that carries both dolefulness and blessedness, both the blissful and ravaged past of mine, both the memoir that i want to preserve forevermore and the ones I want to destroy with my abhorrence.

Using my bare fingers I dredged the fertile soil of this place, digging a hole deep enough to contain my burden. Dropping the locket in, I closed my teary eyes and whispered softly to the skies above for one last time, ”Mother, I keep you in my heart.” I swept the loose earth that piles up beside, and covered my remorse eternally. In this place I buried the bad, and inside my heart I cherished the good.

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Tell Me

Tell me if you ever cared,

If a single thought

For me was spared

Tell me when you lie in bed,

Do you think of something

I once said.

Tell me if you hurt at all,

When someone says

My name with yours

It may have been so long ago,

But I would give

The world to know.

-Lang Leav-

Before There Was You

When I used to look above,

All I saw was sky;

And every song

That I would sing,

I sung not knowing why.

All I thought and all I felt,

Was only just because,

Never was it ever you-

Until it was all there was.

-Lang Leav-

Pinicchio

Once there was a carpenter called Geppetto. He made a wooden puppet and called him Pinocchio. "How nice it would be if it were a real baby!" sighed when he finished painting it. That night, a good fairy heard him and made his wish to become real. "Awake, wood inanimate, now you've got a soul!" she made her magic spell touching Pinocchio with her magic wand. "Pinocchio , be always a good , brave and a selfless boy , " said the Fairy , " and one day you'll be a real boy ! " Then, she addressed to Jiminy Cricket: "I appoint you guide and counsellor of Pinocchio, " she added, before disappearing in a thousand flashes of light. Imagine the delight of Geppetto when he discovered that his little man of wood could move and talk! The next morning he sent him to school like a real boy. "Goodbye, son, come back soon!"  Pinocchio was a little naughty so he disobeying her father went i to the terrible Eater, a puppeteer who promised to make him famous. He enjoyed a lot of singing and dancing with the other puppets. But, when the show was over, Eater shut him in a cage. Suddenly, there appeared the Blue Fairy: "Why did not you go to school?" she asked. Pinocchio answered with a lie and his nose began to grow ... Only when he told the truth, the Fairy freed him and his nose was back to normal. On the way home, Pinocchio saw a coach load of kids cheering. The coachman told him that he was directed to Toyland, where the kids could do whatever they wanted.  "Pinocchio, come back!" Jiminy Cricket ran after him. But the puppet would not listen to him. There Pinocchio met a new boy Candlewick: The two ate as many sweets as they could and enjoyed themselves very much. But he soon discovered that in Toyland the lazy and rude kids were turned into donkeys. When he began to spring two ears and long tail, Pinocchio ran desperately, followed by his faithful friend. Jiminy Cricket Together, then returned to the house of Geppetto , but they found none. "Who knows wha thad l happened to him!" At that moment, a dove brought them a message: while Geppetto was looking for Pinocchio everywhere, he was swallowed by a whale and now he was his prisoner. "I want to save him!" decided the puppet. Arriving at the sea, he dived an dived till he found his father in the belly of the whale. But how to get out of there? So he lit a fire and the smoke made the whale sneeze so strong that, she opened its mouth. Pinocchio and Geppetto escaped on a raft. The puppet helped his father to swim in the middle of the waves: and they finally reached the shore! But as soon as they arrived Pinocchio, for the great effort fainted. Grief-stricken, Geppetto took him home. The Blue Fairy, awoke him and, as promised, rewarded his courage and his goodness, by transforming Pinocchio into a real boy.

Bahasa Inggris 2

1.      Relative Clause is a kind of subordinate clause that contains an element whose interpretation is provided by an antecedent on which the subordinate clause is grammatically dependent; that is, there is an anaphoric relation between the relativized element in the relative clause, and the antecedent on which it depends.

Example :

I met a man who is kind to everybody.

Subordinate Clause : Man

Relative Clause : Who is kind to everybody

2.      Conditional sentences are sentences expressing factual implications, or hypothetical situations and their consequences.

Type of conditional sentences :

Conditional Sentence Type 1

a.       She will arrive here on time if she drive her car by herself.

b.      If you don’t come to my graduation day, I will send you an message

c.       If you come late again, Mr Gru will be very angry.

d.      Today will be very good if the weather is sunny.

e.       You will finish your job if you do it now.

Conditional Sentence Type 2

a.       If I where you, I would not let here go.

b.      You would not be here, if he didn’t help you.

c.       We would not win the game, if we didn’t work together as a team.

d.      My Father wouldn’t worry, if I went with you, because you are innosence.

e.       I would attend your birthday party if I didn’t have home work to do.

Conditional Type 3

a.       If I had known that you were in school, I would have visited you.

b.      If he had been able to finish his job well, he would have been promoted as a direcotor.

c.       If Gru had driven his car carefully, we would not have got an accident.

d.      My Father would have been here, if the flight had not been canceled.

e.       Dinda Would not have arrived at home, if the my Mother had not picked her up.

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Tugas Bahsa Inggris 2

Mention the Kinds of Pronoun !

Make sentences for each kind !

Personal Pronouns

Personal pronoun describes a particular person or thing or group.

Personal pronoun describes the person speaking (I, me, we, us), the person spoken to (you), or the person or thing spoken about (he, she, it, they, him, her, them).

Example.
He helps poor.

The pronoun “he” in above sentence describes a person who helps poor.

Use of Personal Pronouns.

Namber	Person	Personal Pronoun
		Subject	Object
Singular	1st Person	I	Me
	2nd Person	You	You
	3rd Person	She, He, It	Her, Him, It
Plural	1st Person	We	Us
	2nd Person	You	You
	3rd Person	They	Them

Examples.
         She is beautifull

         They are playing soccer.

         He give me a flower.

 Possessive Pronouns

Possessive Pronoun indicates close possession or ownership or relationship of a thing/person to another thing/person. e.g. yours, mine, his,  hers, ours, theirs, hers,

 Example.
I’m yours.

The pronoun “mine” describes the relationship between book and a person (me) who possesses this book or who is the owner of this book.

Namber	Person	Possessive Pronoun
Singular	1st Person	Mine
	2nd Person	Yours
	3rd Person	Hers, his, its
Plural	1st Person	Ours
	2nd Person	Yours
	3rd Person	Theirs

Examples.
        That motorcycle is hers.

        Your pen is old. Mine is new.

        The book on the table is mine.

Reflexive Pronoun.

Reflexive pronoun describes noun when subject’s action affects the subject itself.
e.g himself, yourself, herself, ourselves, themselves, itself  are reflexive pronouns.

Reflexive pronouns always act as objects not subjects, and they require an interaction between the subject and an object.

Namber	Person	Subject	Reflive Pronoun
Singular	1st Person	I	Myself
	2nd Person	You	Yourself
	3rd Person	He, she, it	Himself, Herself, Itself
Plural	1st Person	We	Ourselves
	2nd Person	You	Yourselves
	3rd Person	They	Themselves

Examples.
        I looked at myself in the mirror.

       You should think about yourself.

They prepared themselves for completion.

        

Note: Reflexive noun can also be used to give more emphasis on subject or object. If a reflexive pronoun is used to give more emphasis on a subject or an object, it is called“Intensive Pronoun”. Usage and function of intensive pronoun are different from that of reflexive pronoun.

Relative Pronouns.

Relative Pronoun describes a noun which is mentioned before and more information is to be given about it Or Relative pronoun is a pronoun which joins relative clauses and relative sentences.

 For example, It is the person, who helped her. In this sentence the word “who” is a relative pronoun which refers to the noun (the person) which is already mentioned in beginning of sentence (It is the person) and more information (he helped her) is given after using a relative pronoun (who) for the noun (the person).
Similarly, in above sentence the pronoun “who” joins two clauses which are “it is the person” and “who helped her”.   

Examples. The most commonly used five relative pronouns are, who, whom, whose, which, that. 

“Who” is for subject and “whom” is used for object. “who” and “whom” are used for people. “Whose” is used to show possession and can be used for both people and things. “Which” is used for things. “That” is used for people and things.

Examples.
        It is the girl who got first position in class.

        Adjective is a word that modifies noun.

        The man whom I met yesterday is a nice person.

 Demonstrative Pronouns.

Demonstrative pronoun is a pronoun that points to a thing or things.
e.g. this, that, these, those, none, neither

These pronouns point to thing or things in short distance/time or long distance/time.

Short distance or time: This, these. 

Long distance or time: That, those. 

Demonstrative pronouns “this and that” are used for singular thing while “these or those” are used for plural things.

Examples
          This is black.

          That is heavy.

          Can you see these?

          

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Give the exemples for these 3 types !

There are three basic question types:

1.      Yes/No: the answer is “yes or no”

2.      Question-word: the answer is “information”

3.      Choice: the answer is “in the question”

1.      Yes/No questions

Sometimes the only answer that we need is yes or no. Look at these examples:

auxiliary verb	subject	not	main verb		answer: yes or no
Do	you		want	dinner?	Yes, I do.
Can	you		drive?		No, I can't.
Has	she	not	finished	her work?	Yes, she has.
Did	they		go	home?	No, they didn't.

2.      Question-word questions

Sometimes we want more than yes or no for an answer. When asking for information, we usually place a question-word at the beginning of the sentence. The question-word indicates the information that we want, for example: where (place), when (time), why (reason), who(person). Look at these examples:

question word	auxiliary verb	not	subject	main verb		answer: information
Where	do		you	live?		In Paris.
When	will		we	have	lunch?	At 1pm.
Why	has	n't	Tara	done	it?	Because she can't.
Who(m)	did		she	meet?		She met Ram.
Who*	has			run	out?	Ati has run out.
Who**				ran	out?	Ati ran out.

3.      Choice question

Sometimes we give our listener a choice. We ask them to choose between two possible answers. So their answer is (usually) already in the question. Look at these examples:

auxiliary verb	subject	main verb		or		answer: in question
Do	you	want	tea	or	coffee?	Coffee, please.
Will	we	meet	John	or	James?	John.

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