Making subject-verb agreement analysis of experience using smartphones and social media

1. Background

The development of internet technology today is increasing rapidly, because with the internet all important events in the world can be immediately known and the delivery of information can be more effective and efficient. Access to the internet alone means that information can be found even if the position of the information is in a different geographic area. The internet is currently also accessible via mobile.

Mobile phones have also undergone many rapid developments from time to time. The first time a mobile phone is big. This mobile phone has no other functions than placing and receiving calls, and the available network at that time is only 1G. the mobile phone of this era can only last one hour for the talk time and eight hours for the standby period.

Then the course of time began to shrink shape and size of mobile phones, smaller forms make this mobile phone easy to use. Often the Smartphone is the time to play. This smartphone is in addition to making and receiving calls, but also functions with calendar, address book, world, clock, calculator, notepade, e-mail and games. The phone is then delivered with a display and has a vibration function. Furthermore, together with the development of technology, the phone has the function of sending and receiving messages, such as internet and network communication that the more advanced mobile phones can use to access the virtual world via the internet. Then the phone comes with music functions and then reintroduced with the camera function with the passage of time that the phone grows, with a beautiful design, equipped with wifi.

Next comes the iPhone that introduced the phone with a touch screen of 100%. Design and interesting multimedia functions make the iPhone much in demand.and then presence of Android, Android is thick-pitched by Google, this operating system to match the ability of desktop computers. With advanced technology capabilities cept or slow mixing mixer will exist of other smartphones. Then start the phone with a high-definition screen, the screen are really bright and sharp.

My experience in the development of this telephone technology, going from ordinary phones to the iphone and android. At that moment all mobile phones have the same functionality, so that a variety of social media brings the world closer. And with the internet everything is immediately known. From the start facebook, twitter, instagram, path, line, bbm, WhatsApp can all be opened and enjoyed via the mobile phone. But many use social media. The origins of social media were used to communicate, to make friends and to search for information whenever and wherever it is a bad thing, because of the misuse of social media, the number of cyber-bully, fraud and abduction via social media.

Now children almost all have social media nowadays and use them without supervision by their parents, so that more and more children whose behavior is not like his age. When I was a child, there were no social media like this, so the children in the nineties were not stuck to the gadget yet. I do not think children today do not feel the games of the past. With the gadget all children from 1 year have started, so make many children whose vision is broken and so on. Indeed, the function of this gadget is very useful to teach children to be more intelligent and to gain more insight, because everything is accessible via the gadget. Parental or adult supervision is very important, restrict the use of gadgets in children, provide information that is suitable for his age, provide games that are and can be allowed for his age. Do not free children with gadgets and social media.

In fact, I believe that social media and gadgets create human nature in people, they all have access to social media and gadgets that play around them. When they meet old friends, for example, they are immersed in their respective gadgets. Some are busy playing games, some are busy for status, chatting and so on. Although the time to gather with old friends is very difficult to do, but many have wasted the opportunity because of the gadget. And the other negative consequence is: can ignore something that is mandatory, one must have the possible duty possible. For someone who, for example, is a Muslim every day, praying must be a compulsory worship that can not be ignored. Because a student also has compulsory learning. Here social media plays a role in delaying someone's work. Unfortunately, many students shift their focus to activities on social media. Not when at home, when students are involved with the students. Then you can lower your health level, do you think that if social media affects our health? It is undeniable that you have to believe because this impact has been proven to be true after being done by many researchers in the world. If you pay too much attention to playing social media, this will damage the health of your eyes. Especially if you do this late into the night and you can go straight up. It has never been asked by researchers at Northwestern University, they claim that the current use of smartphones in the late hours can cause obesity because of the fact that a person's body will increase.

To prevent such things, we need to look for positive activities, such as turning off your mobile notification, when you place a notification on your smartphone, it no longer interferes with your daily routine. You may find it easier to focus on everyday tasks and not be distracted so quickly. Then you limit yourself, so you spend less time on social media on alarms or stopwatches to control the use of social media. If you are used to spending your time on social media, you can not rely on social media. Then find a new hobby, take a new hobby to fill your free time. Learn new skills or do something that you always want to do, but never have time. Your new hobby will keep the head and hand that usually hold the smartphone to open a social media account. Then you should be aware of people who love you, status updates with friends and family members. You do not have to document everything you've done in life by uploading it to your social media account. Then Meet People In Real Life, there are so many ways to measure people in real life. Join the club, attend seminars, go around with your good friends and many other things. Whatever activities you choose, you will actually make connections with new people and not in cyberspace.

2. Theory

Definition

In English grammar, subject-verb agreement is the correspondence of a verb with its subject in person (first, second, or third) and number (singular or plural). Also called subject-verb concord.
The principle of subject-verb agreement applies to finite verbs in the present tense and, in a limited way, to the past forms of the verb to be (was and were).

Examples and Observations

"A singular subject needs a singular verb, and a plural subject needs a plural verb. (Reminder: The verb is the action word in the sentence. The subject is who or what does the action. . . .)

The girl [singular subject] reads [singular verb] mystery stories.
The girls [plural subject] read [plural verb] mystery stories.
Tonya [singular subject] is [singular verb] asleep.
Tonya and her friends [plural subject] are [plural verb] asleep."

(Rebecca Elliott, Painless Grammar, 2nd ed. Barron's, 2006)

Agreement When Prepositional Phrases Come Between the Subject and the Verb
"A prepositional phrase cannot contain the subject of the sentence. Do not be confused when a prepositional phrase (a phrase that begins with of, in, between, and so on) comes between the subject and the verb. In such cases, the object of the preposition appears to be the subject of the sentence when really it is not. This error can lead to an incorrect verb choice, as in the three incorrect sentences below.

Incorrect
High levels of mercury occurs in some fish.
Correct
High levels of mercury occur in some fish.

Incorrect
Water in the fuel lines cause an engine to stall.
Correct
Water in the fuel lines causes an engine to stall.

Incorrect
Food between the teeth result in decay.
Correct
Food between the teeth results in decay."

(Laurie G. Kirszner and Stephen R. Mandell, Writing First with Readings: Practice in Context, 3rd ed. Bedford/St. Martin's, 2006)

Notes on Subject-Verb Agreement
"Expressions indicating quantity or amount to be considered as a unit require a singular verb. These expressions often refer to amounts of money, units of time, or measurements:

Five dollars is the price of that shirt.
Two hundred yards is a long way to crawl.

"Nouns plural in form but singular in meaning require a singular verb:

Mumps is very uncommon in the United States today.

"A verb is never affected by a subject complement:

The gift he gave his friend was books.
( Books is the subject complement.)"

(Gordon Loberger and Kate Shoup, Webster's New World English Grammar Handbook, 2nd ed. Wiley, 2009)

Agreement With Compound Subjects Joined by And
"Compound subjects are composed of several nouns or pronouns connected by and, or, either-or, or neither-nor. Subjects connected by and almost always form a plural subject and demand a plural verb.

Dogs and cats love to have their ears scratched.
Cream cheese and tomato are delicious on a bagel.

There are two exceptions to this rule. The first occurs when a seemingly compound and plural subject comes to be regarded as singular through popular usage:

Bacon and eggs is my favorite breakfast.
Corned beef and cabbage is an Irish tradition.

The other exception occurs when subjects connected by and describe a single person or thing:

The creator and champion of the sport is injured.
The cause and solution to our problems is this.

In the first sentence, the words creator and champion refer to a single person, so the verb is singular. In the second sentence, the words cause and solution refer to a single object or issue. The verb must also be singular."
(Michael Strumpf and Auriel Douglas, The Grammar Bible. Owl Books, 2004)

Agreement With Coordinated Noun Phrases
"If the subject contains coordinated noun phrases, the agreement is usually with the second noun phrase when the two phrases differ in number:

Either Fred or his his cousins are going.
Either my aunts or my mother is going."

(Ronald Wardhaugh, Understanding English Grammar: A Linguistic Approach, 2nd ed. Blackwell, 2003)

Agreement With Collective Nouns and Indefinite Pronouns
"Nouns such as family, choir, team, majority, minority--any noun that names a group of individual members--can be treated as either singular or plural, depending on context and meaning:

The family have all gone their separate ways.
The whole family is celebrating the holidays at home this year.
The majority of our city council members are Republicans.
The majority always rules.

Other singular-in-form nouns, such as remainder, rest, and number, also have a plural meaning in certain contexts; their number depends on their modifiers:

The remainder of the job applicants are waiting outside.
The rest of the books are being donated to the library.
A number of customers have come early.

This system also applies to certain indefinite pronouns, such as some, all, and enough:

Some of the books were missing.
All of the cookies were eaten.

Notice what happens to the verb in such sentences when the modifier of the subject headword is singular:

The rest of the map was found.
Some of the water is polluted.
All of the cake was eaten.
The remainder of this chapter is especially important."

(Martha Kolln and Robert Funk, Understanding English Grammar, 5th ed. Allyn & Bacon, 1998)

Agreement When the Subject Follows the Verb
"In most sentences, the subject comes before the verb. However, in some cases, the subject follows the verb, and subject-verb agreement needs special attention. Study the following examples:

Over the building flies a solitary flag. (flag flies)
Over the building fly several flags. (flags fly)
There is a good reason for that deadline. (reason is)
There are good reasons for that deadline. (reasons are)"

(Paige Wilson and Teresa Ferster Glazier, The Least You Should Know About English, Form A: Writing Skills, 11th ed. Wadsworth, 2012)

3. Analysis

Note : Underline = helping verb, Bold = Subject, Italic = verb

The first time a mobile phone is big .
because A mobile phone is singular,then the verb must singular, is.

the Smartphone is the time to play
because the smartphone is singular,then the verb must singular, is.

This mobile phone has no other functions than placing and receiving calls
because mobile phone is singular, then helping verb must be singular (has)

they are immersed in their respective gadgets
Subject They is plural, then the verb must be plural gadget(s)

Because a student also has compulsory learning
a student is singular, so that helping verb must to singular (has)

all mobile phones have the same functionality
mobile phones is plural, soo helping verb tor plural is ( have, are or do)

when students are involved
students is plural, and then the verb must be plural (are)

4. Conclusion

Subject- verb agreement is a rapprochement between the verb with the subject line in terms of number, namely : singular or plural. Subjects can be either a noun , pronoun , or other construction acting as a noun , like gerund and infinitive . Basically, the singular subject ( single subject ) use the singular verb , while plural subject ( subject plural ) using a plural verb ( verb plural ). Subject verb agreement refers to the fact that the subject and verb in a sentence must agree in number. In other words, they both must be singular or they both must be plural. You can’t have a singular subject with a plural verb or vice versa.

referensi :

https://www.thoughtco.com/subject-verb-agreement-1692002

https://sriharyatisite.wordpress.com/2016/04/25/makalah-subject-verb-agreement/

https://www.wordsmile.com/pengertian-contoh-kalimat-subject-verb-agreement

https://leo.stcloudstate.edu/grammar/subverag.html

Kiki RA

Friday, March 23

Making subject-verb agreement analysis of experience using smartphones and social media