Saturday, February 13, 2010

Asking Address

Q: Where are you from?
A: I am from Jakarta.

Q: Where do you come from?
A: I come from Solo.

Q: Where do you live?
A: I live at Sukoharjo.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

lalu bedanya
I live in ...
I live at ...
I live on ... ???
tx

Darwoto, S.Pd. said...

Ada banyak pemahaman tentang hal ini.

Menurut saya:
I live in ...
1. Digunakan untuk kata keterangan tempat yang dirasa lebih besar.
Contoh:
I live in Bali.
(Kita merasa bahwa Bali itu lebih besar daripada Denpasar).
2. Digunakan untuk nama jalan.
Contoh:
I live in Sudirman Street.

I live at ...
Digunakan untuk keterangan tempat yang sudah jelas namanya.
Contoh:
I live at Griya Prima.
(Griya Prima adalah sebuah nama perumahan.)

I live on ...
Digunakan untuk kata keterangan tempat, yaitu berada dipermukaan.
Contoh:
I walk on the street.

Thank you.
Semoga bermanfaat.


Article of the Day

Crop Circles

Crop circles, patterns created in fields by the unexplained flattening of crops, have garnered worldwide attention since they began appearing in the English countryside in the late 1970s. Since then, roughly 12,000 crop circles have been found worldwide. Though many incidents have been exposed as hoaxes, both meteorological phenomena and UFOs have been cited as possible sources of the mysterious patterns. How did the men who perpetrated some of the original crop circle hoaxes create the designs? More... Discuss
Metode Bahasa Inggris 468 x 60