Soal Bahasa Inggris Kelas 8 Kurikulum Merdeka Halaman 94 95 96, Kunci Jawaban Section 4: Description

For example, they showed that the Mother Duck felt worried or the Ugly Duckling was sad. Adjectives can come after ‘to be’.

The Adjectives come after the past tense forms of ‘to be’, ‘was’ and ‘were’ because we mainly use past tense in narrating a story. Look at the following examples:

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• The Ugly Duckling was sad. Nobody wanted to be his friend

(Showing the Ugly Duckling’s feeling sad).

• The yellow ducklings were not happy to see the Ugly Duckling

(Showing the yellow ducklings’ feeling unhappy).

The Adjectives can also come after some other ‘verbs’. The most common verbs are ‘feel’ and ‘become’.

These verbs should also be in their past tense forms: ‘felt’ (past tense of ‘feel’), and ‘became’ (past tense of ‘become’).

• The Ugly Duckling felt heartbroken

(Showing the Ugly Duckling’s feeling heartbroken).

• Mother Duck became worried about the Ugly Duckling

(Showing Mother Duck’s feeling worried).

• The Ugly Duckling became happy to live with the white swans

(Showing the Ugly Duckling’s feeling happy).

In the next page, do the following activities about showing feelings using adjectives in the Ugly Duckling story (Parts 1 - 3).

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