Mona : You look excited. Do you want to share it with me? Lia : Sure. I have a new way to make my typing neat. Before this, I got a bit frustrated (24)……. sloppy typing, especially wide spacing between words. Mona: Then, what did you do? Lia : (25)….. Hanif who told me how to tidy up my typing. It happened when he saw me typing and noticed that it had many wide spaces. He claims that our teachers will give a lot of doodles (26)……. minor error for sure. this Mona :Then? Lia : Then, he showed me the way. I applied it on my writings right away. Gotcha! All of my writings are neat now. Mona : You must tell me about it. Lia : Sure. Take out your laptop computer and let me show you.

Mona : You look excited. Do you want to share it with me?

Lia : Sure. I have a new way to make my typing neat. Before this, I got a bit frustrated (24)……. sloppy typing, especially wide spacing between words.

Mona: Then, what did you do?

Lia : (25)….. Hanif who told me how to tidy up my typing. It happened when he saw me typing and noticed that it had many wide spaces. He claims that our teachers will give a lot of doodles (26)……. minor error for sure. this

Mona :Then?

Lia : Then, he showed me the way. I applied it on my writings right away. Gotcha! All of my writings are neat now.

Mona : You must tell me about it.

Lia : Sure. Take out your laptop computer and let me show you.

Number 26 please 🙂

Jawaban yang benar adalah ‘because of/due to’.

Soal menanyakan kata/frasa yang tepat untuk melengkapi rumpang no 26 pada teks.

Kalimat “He claims that our teachers will give a lot of doodles (26)……. minor error for sure.” artinya “Dia mengklaim bahwa guru kami akan memberikan banyak coretan (26) …… kesalahan kecil pastinya.”

Dilihat dari strukturnya, dapat disimpulkan bahwa kalimat tersebut membutuhkan kata penghubung atau conjunction.

Dilihat dari maknanya, kata penghubung yang tepat untuk melengkapi rumpang adalah kata penghubung yang menunjukan hubungan sebab akibat. Frasa ‘minor error’ menunjukan sebab. Sehingga kata penghubung yang dapat digunakan adalah ‘because of’ atau ‘due to’ yang bermakna ‘karena’.

Kedua kata penghubung tersebut dapat digunakan karena setelah rumpang diikuti oleh noun phrase ‘minor error’.

Jadi, jawabannya adalah ‘because of/due to’.

Hope it helps. Happy learning! 🙂