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8. Time
To be digunakan untuk menyatakan keterangan waktu
Contoh :
• What time is it?
• The match was at seven o’clock.
• We are always late!
• The meeting is on the fifth of October
9. Color
Dalam menyatakan warna maka to be dapat diartikan dengan
‘berwarna’.
Contoh :
• The table is brown
• The building is orange

5.2.1 To be sebagai Auxiliary Verb/Kata Bantu

‘Be’ adalah salah satu dari tiga kata kerja bantu dalam bahasa Inggris:
be, do/does and have/has. Kita menggunakan ‘be’ untuk membuat bentuk
progresive (continous tense) dan kalimat pasif (passive voice).

Contoh :
Continous :
• I’m reading a book about the Titanic at the moment.
• Are you reading?
• What was she doing in France?
• Mr. Jaelani is not teaching now.

Passive
• The job was advertised last week.
• The house was being painted.
• Am I invited to your birthday party.
• The house was built in the mountains.
• The program is being recorded right now.

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