Kata hubung pancangan join a smaller clause to a main clause. Yang adds a description (“budak yang memakai baju merah”). Bahawa reports (“Guru memberitahu bahawa esok cuti”). Others add a reason (kerana), a condition (jika, sekiranya), a purpose (supaya, agar), a time (apabila, sementara), a result (hingga, sehingga) or a surprise (walaupun, meskipun).
What your child will learn
- Choose a conjunction by its meaning
- Join two sentences with yang, kerana or walaupun
- Know pairs with the same meaning: jika and sekiranya, walaupun and meskipun, supaya and agar
Ask what the second idea does
Does it say why? Use kerana. Under what condition? Jika or sekiranya. For what purpose? Supaya or agar. In spite of what? Walaupun or meskipun.
Yang lets you fold a describing sentence into a noun: “Rumah itu terbakar. Rumah itu milik Pak Hassan.” becomes “Rumah yang terbakar itu milik Pak Hassan.”
Example questions
Here are a few questions like the ones in the first quest. Can you solve them?
1. Isi tempat kosong: “Kami berteduh ___ hujan berhenti.”
🌧️- hingga
- yang
- bahawa
- walaupun
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Answer: hingga. “Hingga” menunjukkan had masa.
2. Kata hubung yang manakah menunjukkan tujuan?
- yang
- walaupun
- supaya
- apabila
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Answer: supaya. Contohnya: makan sayur supaya sihat.
3. Isi tempat kosong: “Dia tetap ke sekolah ___ demam.”
🏫- kerana
- supaya
- jika
- walaupun
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Answer: walaupun. “Walaupun” menunjukkan pertentangan.
Tips for grown-ups
- Finish each other’s sentences: “Saya akan datang jika…”, “Dia tersenyum walaupun…”.
- Combine two short sentences from a storybook using yang.