English Assignment ‘Business English 2’ (Softskill)

UNIVERSITAS GUNADARMA

FAKULTAS ILMU KOMPUTER DAN TEKNOLOGI INFORMASI

English Assignment

‘Business English 2’ (Softskill)

Name   : Rachmawati Dzakiy Malikah

Class    : 4KA01

NPM   : 15115494

 Analysis of Journal

1. Subject, Verb, Complement & Modifier
2. Verb Phrases & Tenses
3. Subject-Verb Agreement
4. Pronouns

Sentence 1:

Fiji National University is encountering many difficulties with its current administrative systems. These difficulties include accessibility, scalability, performance, flexibility and integration.

Answer:

•  The sentence above is demonstrative pronouns because ‘these’ replace ‘many difficulties’

Sentence 2:

CIS is a transaction processing system that serves at the operational level of the colleges and universities, it performs and records the routine transactions necessary to conduct its business.

Answer :

• The sentence above is subject-verb agreement because that tells about definition of CIS
• The sentence above is the personal pronouns because there is subject “it” that refers to CIS
• The sentence above is relative pronouns because ‘that’ in the sentence refers to ‘transaction processing system’
• CIS is a transaction processing system that serves at the operational level of the colleges

              S    V                            C                                             M

           and universities, it performs and records the routine transactions necessary to conduct its                     business.

                                             S for Subject

                                             V for Verb

                                             C for Complement

                                             M for Modifier

Sentence 3:

Campus Information System (CIS) is a unified system that provides a single point of access to all secure administrative systems at higher education sector.

Answer:

• The sentence above is subject-verb agreement because the subject isn’t more than one, so the to be is singular (‘is’)
• The sentence above is relative pronouns because ‘that’ in the sentence refers to ‘unified system’

Sentence 4:

The system would serve user request with minimum response time.

Answer :

• The sentence above is simple past future tense because there is s + would + bare infinitive

Sentence 5:

Today’s information systems are still doing the same thing they began doing 50 years ago, however what has changed is that we enjoy much higher level of integration of systems functions across applications and greater connectivity across both similar and dissimilar systems components.

Answer:

• The sentence above is possessive pronouns because “today’s” in the sentence showing an ownership.

Sentence 6:

FUN-CIS has user interface designed using HTML and JSP, which simply collects data from the users and posts it to the server for processing, and then displays the processed data back to the user.

Answer:

·         The sentence above is relative pronouns because the sentence is using ‘which’ to combine with other sentences.

Sentence 7:

The profile option provides them with choice to view and update their profile.

Answer:

• The sentence above is personal pronouns because ‘them’ in the sentence refers to ‘the students’
• The sentence above is possessive pronouns because ‘their’ in the sentence refers to ‘the students’

Sentence 8:

We have developed software architecture for implementing FNU-CIS for thin-client web-based applications.

Answer:

• The sentence above is present perfect tense because there is S + has/have + past participle

Sentence 9:

The id and password are verified and if successful students are directed to the student menu page.

Answer:

• The sentence above is subject-verb agreement because the subject is more than one, so the to be is plural (‘are’)

Sentence 10:

We will use six comparison criteria to compare our system with other systems; accessibility, security, performance, flexibility, scalability and maintenance.

Answer:

• The sentence above is simple future tense because there is S + will + bare infinitive

Sentence 11:

This paper presented an overview, prototype example usage, software architecture and comparison of our proposed campus information systems for Fiji National University. The overview presented the functionalities together with the prototype example usage of the system. The software architecture described the designed multi-tier software architecture, separating presentation logic, web logic, business logic and data logic. Finally the system was compared with other available systems using the six key properties essential for development of an efficient Campus Information Systems. Future work would be carried on exploring further generalisation of our software architecture and evaluating the software system.

Answer:

• The sentence above is past tense because there is verb + d/ed