Germinate adalah perpanjangan konsonan atau dua konsonan yang sama ditempatkan berurutan. Karena itu, germinate disebut juga twin sounds.
a. Word boundaries
Penggabungan dua kata saat diucapkan, yang mana kata pertama berakhiran huruf yang sama dengan awalan kata kedua. Jika pengucapan kata pertama diakhiri dengan suara konsonan, tetapi secara ejaan terdapat vocal, biasanya huruf e, maka kata tersebut tidak bisa digabungkan untuk membentuk germinate.
1. I want to –> I wanto
2. Short term –> Shorterm
3. Social life –> Socialife
4. Under review –> Undereview
5. Railroad disaster –> Railroadisaster
6. Specific course –> Specificourse
7. This site –> Thisite
b. Morpheme boundaries
Sebuah kata yang memiliki ejaan berupa konsonan ganda karena penambahan imbuhan prefix (awalan) atau suffix (akhiran).
1. Unnatural
2. Misspoke
3. Thinness
4. Submission
5. Unnecessary
6. Immortal
7. Irrational
Homonym adalah kata-kata yang memiliki ejaan yang sama dan diucapkan dengan suara yang sama, tetapi memiliki makna yang berbeda. Kata-kata yang termasuk homonym dapat berperan menjadi lebih dari satu unsur tata bahasa atau kelas kata tanpa diberi imbuhan awalan atau akhiran, kecuali imbuhan untuk pada kalimat continuous, past atau untuk menyatakan bentuk jamak.
Contoh :
1. Set
• Father bought a home theater set.
Makna : Perangkat
• Mother has a set of sophisticated cooking tools.
Makna : Kumpulan
• He is setting the musical equipment on the stage.
Makna : Mengatur atau menyetel
• The principal has set new rules for students after school hours are over.
Makna : Menetapkan
2. Rock
• A young man sits contemplating on a rock while gazing into the distance.
Makna : Batu besar
• He prefers rock music to pop.
Makna : Jenis musik
3. Current
• According to the current news, the price of oil is still rising.
Makna : Sekarang ini, sedang beredar atau masih berlaku
• The raft swayed with the river currents.
Makna : Arus air
4. Right
• The Tetap Sehat drugstore is to the right of Rachel's Bakery.
Makna : Kanan
• I don't know the right answer.
Makna : Tepat
• Every citizen has rights that are protected by law.
Makna : Hak
5. Sink
• The cruise ship sank in the middle of the sea due to a leak at the bottom.
Makna : Tenggelam
• My mom told my sister to wash her hands in the sink.
Makna : Wastafel
6. Drop
• After getting into a traffic accident, his condition is still drop at this time.
Makna : Keadaan menurun atau keadaan jatuh
• She didn't realize she had dropped her house keys.
Makna : Menjatuhkan
7. Squash
• Farmers are harvesting squashes in their fields.
Makna : Labu
• He squashed the empty plastic bottle before throwing it in the trash.
Makna : Melumatkan atau menindih
8. Sentence
• Mrs. Dona asked the students to make 10 active and passive sentences.
Makna : Kalimat
• The judge sentenced the mafia to 3 years in prison.
Makna : Memvonis atau menjatuhkan hukuman
9. Break
• After practicing for almost three hours, we decided to take a short break.
Makna : Istirahat
• After being in a relationship for two years, they decided to break up.
• The phone line was broken due to a blizzard.
Makna : Pemutusan atau terputus
• He breaks the log with his hand.
• Cybercriminals managed to break the company's code.
• The man who had broken into the door of the mansion has been arrested by the police.
Makna : Mematahkan, memecah atau membobol
10. Boil
• I boil noodles for breakfast.
• The water in the pot just boiled.
Makna : Mendidih atau merebus
• The boil on his calf suddenly burst.
Makna : Bisul
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