Selasa, 01 Juli 2014

Kesukaran Berawal dari Kebaikan yang Salah




Allah menciptakan segala yang ada di langit dan di bumi sesuai dengan apa – apa yang akan terjadi. Didalam kehidupan yang penuh liku – liku ini, alangkah lebih baik jika kita bersedia intropeksi diri terlebih dahulu sebelum memberikan kesimpulan atas alasan terjadinya musibah dalam hidup kita.
Pernahkah kita menyadari, bahwa kita sering lalai dan tidak amanah terhadap rezeki yang dititipkan oleh Allah???

Mungkin selama ini setiap kebaikan yang kita berikan dengan orang – orang terdekat kita merupakan alasan utama mengapa hidup kita penuh kesukaran... mari kita teliti kembali firman – firman Allah dan perintah yang telah IA atur didalam Al-Quran bahwa rezeki yang telah kita peroleh atas kerja keras kita, didalamnya terdapat rezeki yang Allah titipkan untuk umatNYA yang banyak kekurangan..

Keikhlasan kita di dzalimi oleh orang lain pun menjadi salah satu alasan lainnya atas kesukaran hidup ini,, karena kita tega membiarkan diri kita teraniaya atas kejahatan orang lain dan kita tak mau membela kebenaran diri kita dijalan Allah. Bahkan sering sekali kita menyebutnya sebagai cobaan atas kesabaran kita. Perlu kita ketahui bahwa diri ini ialah jasad yang sengaja Allah titipkan dalam raga kita yang harus kita jaga bahkan kita atur agar mau berjalan didalam kebenaran saat waktu berputar. Jikalau di setiap detik kehidupan ini, kita selalu ikhlas membiarkan orang lain melukai diri bahkan hati kita, mungkin kesukaran hidup kita adalah balasan yang setimpal atas semua itu.

Ketahuilah bahwa Allah sangat menginginkan kita untuk belajar, belajar memahami bahwa ada banyak macam kategori cobaan dan kemalasan. Artinya, jika lebih dari 3x ada orang yang sama melukai diri kita, berarti kita telah lalai dalam menjaga diri kita. Kita telah membiarkan orang lain mengobrak abrik diri kita dengan kita mengikhlaskan dan bersedia memahami apa yang mereka lakukan tanpa mampu kita mengingat bahwa diri ini pun sangat membutuhkan kebaikan dan pembelaan dari orang yang dititipkan oleh pemilikNYA.

Jangan pernah salah dalam mengartikan keburukan dan kebaikan orang lain. Karena sesungguhnya hidup ini adalah keindahan yang menipu. Sering sekali kita menemukan kebaikan orang lain yang tidak tulus. Sering sekali kita merasakan sakit akibat kejahatan orang lain yang sebenarnya menuntut kebaikan untuk diri kita. Perlu kita telaah dalam – dalam mengenai makna sikap orang lain kepada kita. Karena ketulusan itu tidak kasat mata. Sering sekali kita mendzalimi seseorang yang menurut kita sebagai penghalang misi kita, padahal apa yang ia komentari itu sangat bermanfaat. Dan sering sekali kita sabar dan mampu memahami kebusukan orang lain yang kita anggap sebagai suatu ujian.. memang benar jikalau cobaan itu terkadang datang melalui keburukan orang lain, namun jika kita hanya mampu berdiam diri tanpa berupaya membuat orang lain itu sadar, justru itu dosa yang teramat besar.

Belajarlah lebih banyak tentang makna perintah yang Allah berikan,, jangan pernah memberikan kebaikan yang lebih kepada sahabat, kerabat bahkan saudara sendiri jika kita belum mampu memberikan kebaikan kepada anak yatim dan fakir miskin.. mereka adalah kunci keberkahan yang sudah jelas Allah beritahu kepada kita dalam firmanNYA. Namun sering sekali terlintas dalam pikiran kita jika berbuat baik dengan orang terdekat dapat memberikan kebaikan pula saat kita jatuh nanti. 

Setiap manusia itu memiliki sifat iri dan dengki. Jangankan kepada sahabat atau saudara sekandung, dengan orangtua sendiri pun masih banyak yang tidak mau membantu dikala ia diberikan upaya untuk membantu orangtuanya. Tidaklah ada untung atau pahala berlipat bagi kita jika dalam sepanjang hidup ini kita terus – menerus menolong orang yang salah.

Ubahlah sudut pandang kita,, belajarlah untuk amanah atas apa – apa yang telah Allah titipkan kepada kita. Semoga didalam sisa hidup ini, kita selalu diberikan keberkahan saat beribadah dalam segi apapun.

ya rabb,,, ampuni diri ini jika kami tak mampu membedakan mana yang baik dan bathil.

ampuni diri ini jika keegoisan dan kepercayaan kami membantu sesama itu lebih mulia dibanding membantu orang – orang yang KAU muliakan..

Jumat, 20 Juni 2014

STRUCTURE ON TOEFL




The abbreviation of TOEFL is Test Of English as a Foreign Language. Theoritically, it is used for a test to evaluate the English language skills of nonnative speakers, or in other words it is a test that evaluates the ability of an individual to use and understand English in an academic setting. Normally, The TOEFL is taken by people who want to study on university in the us and other English speaking countries or who want to join certain independent organization and institutions.
The type of structure of TOEFL are so many :

NOUNS
 A noun is the name of a person, place, thing, or idea. Whatever exists, we assume, can be named, and that name is a noun. 
Categories Noun :
Nouns can be classified further as count nouns, which name anything that can be counted (four books, two continents, a few dishes, a dozen buildings)
mass nouns (or non-count nouns), which name something that can't be counted (water, air, energy, blood)
collective nouns, which can take a singular form but are composed of more than one individual person or items (jury, team, class, committee, herd)

PRONOUNS
 A pronoun is often defined as a word which can be used instead of a noun.
Example:  instead of saying John is a student
the pronoun he can be used in place of the noun John and the sentence becomes He is a student. 
personal pronouns sometimes have different forms for masculine/male, feminine/female and neuter  (he-she-it).  Also unlike nouns, personal pronouns have different forms depending on if  they act as subjects or objects (he-him, she-her).  A subject is a word which does an action and usually comes before the verb, and an object is a word that receives an action and usually comes after the verb. 


HELPING VERBS
In most cases, the words in sentences need a little help in order to make the intended meaning crystal clear. Verbs are no exceptions. Luckily, there are helping verbs to stand up and do just that.
The primary helping verbs are be, do, and have. They’re called primary because they can help main verbs or they can actually be the main verb.
1.      “Be” verbs. The term “be verbs” is a little deceiving because they include more than the word “be.” They help show a state of being or a state of existing.
Here is a list of “be” verb forms: am, is, are, was, were, been, being, be.
Example:  Fitri is watching television. (this shows a continuous tense.)
2.      Have. The helping verb have is used to make perfect tenses. The perfect tense shows action that is already completed.
Example: I have finished washing the dishes. (Dish washing is complete!)
3. Do. The verb “do” can perform a variety of functions:
- To make negatives: I do not care for broccoli.
- To ask questions: Do you like broccoli?
- To show emphasis: I do you want you to eat your broccoli.
- To stand for a main verb: Sam like broccoli more than Carmen does.

DEFINITE ARTICLE “THE”
Articles in English are invariable. That is, they do not change according to the gender or number of the noun they refer to, e.g. the boy, the woman, the children
'The' is used:
1. to refer to something which has already been mentioned.
 Example:
An elephant and a mouse fell in love.
The mouse loved the elephant's long trunk,
and the elephant loved the mouse's tiny nose.
2. When both the speaker and listener know what is being talked about, even if it has not been mentioned before.
Example:
'Where's the bathroom?'
'It's on the first floor.'
3. In sentences or clauses where we define or identify a particular person or object:
Example:
The man who wrote this book is famous.
'Which car did you scratch?' 'The red one.
My house is the one with a blue door.'
5. Before superlatives and ordinal numbers: (see Adjectives)
Example:
The highest building, the first page, the last chapter.
6. With adjectives, to refer to a whole group of people:
Example:
The Japanese (List of nationalities in English), the old

TENSES
In grammar, tense is a category that locates a sintuation in time, to indicate when the situation takes place. Tense is the grammaticalisation of time reference, often using three basic categories of "before now", the pastst "now", the present and "after now", the future.

Simple Tenses
The simple tenses are used to show permanent characteristics of people and events or what happens regularly, habitually or in a single completed action.
Continuous Tenses
The continuous tenses are used when talking about a particular point in time.
Perfect Tenses
Sometimes you need to give just a little bit more information about an action or state...and that is where the perfect tenses come in.
The perfect tenses are used when an action or situation in the present is linked to a moment in the past. It is often used to show things that have happened up to now but aren't finished yet or to emphasize that something happened but is not true anymore. When they end determines which of them you use.
Perfect tenses are never used when we say when something happened i.e. yesterday, last year etc. but can be used when discussing the duration of something i.e. often, for, always, since etc.. The Future Tenses
Discussing the future in English can seem complicated.The present simple, present continuos, present perfect simple and the present present perfect continuous  can all be used and often it is

ADJECTIVE CLAUSES
Adjective clause is clause which is preceded by a clause markers like who, whom, which, where, when, whose or why. The function to describe nouns.
For example :
1. The boy ..... is in the garden is my brother.
a. What                                               c. Who
b. Where                                              d. Which
The answered is c
PREPOSITIONS
 A perposotion is a word such as after, in, to, on, and with. Prepositions are usually used in front of nouns or pronouns and they show the relationship between the noun or pronoun and other words in a sentence. They describe, for example:
a)      Simple Preposition: about, above, across, after, etc.
b)      Compound Preposition: despite, beyond, upon, besides, etc
c)      Double Preposition: inspite of, due to, as regards, next to, etc
d)     Participal Preposition: regarding, barring, pending, during, etc
e)      Phrase Preposition: instead of, on account of, in line with, etc

CAUSATIVE
The causative is a common structure in English. it is used when one thing or person causes another thing or person to do something.

a)      Causative – Have: I have him repair the door
b)      Causative – Get: I often get my sister to clean her room.

ADJECTIVE CLAUSE
An adjective usually comes after the noun it modifies and is made up of several words which, Like all clauses, will include a subject and a verb.

a)      Subject pronoun: who – which – that
b)      Object pronoun: who – which – that
c)      Using whose and where



Sourch:
            en.wikipedia.org
http://eslus.com/LESSONS/GRAMMAR/POS/pos6.htm
http://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/tensetext.html#sthash.kjDJJWm3.dpuf
www.learnenglish.de/grammar/tensetext.html

Rabu, 14 Mei 2014

STRUCTURE TOEFL

STRUCTURE TOEFL
The Test Of English as a Foreign Language (or TOEFL, pronounced "toe-full") evaluates the potential success of an individual to use and understand standard American English at a college level. The Structure and Written Expression section contains sentences that test your knowledge of important structural and grammatical elements of standard written English.
The type of structure of TOEFL are so many, as follow:
   1. NOUNSà A noun is the name of a person, place, thing, or idea. Whatever exists, we assume, can be named, and that name is a noun. Categories Noun:
a)      Compound noun: A common noun is a noun that refers to people or things in general. There are several different types of compound noun, as follows:
·         Countable compound nouns: address book
·         Uncountable compound nouns: air conditioning
·         Singular compound nouns: cost of living
·         Plural compound nouns: armed forces
b)      Countable nouns: nouns are words which can be counted. They have a singular form and a plural form. They usually refer to things. Most countable nouns become plural by adding an ‘s’ at the end of the word.
Example: book ( I bought a book last week)
c)      Collective nouns: Collective nouns refer to groups of people or things.
For example: the jury is trying to make ecision now ß that can be follow with singular and plural verb
d)     Uncountable noun: nouns are words which cannot be counted. Therefore, they only have a singular form. They have no plural forms.
For example: I need a water (wrong)
I need some water (right)
    2.PRONOUNSà a pronoun is a word or form that substitutes for a noun or noun phrase. It is a particular case of a pro-form. There are several different types of pronouns, as follows:
a)      Subjective pronouns: Personal pronouns may be classified by person, number and case.
Example: Who is Mr. Black? à He is my new neighbour
b)      Possessive adjective:
Example: Singular ( This is my English dictionary)
Example: Plural ( These are our dictionaries)
c)      Possessive pronouns: Possessive pronouns are used to indicate possession or ownership. Some occur as independent noun phrases: mine, yours,  hers, ours, yours, theirs.
Example : Singular (This dictionary is mine)
Example : Plural (These English novels are ours)
d)     Reflexive Pronouns: Reflexive pronouns are used when a person or thing acts on itself.
Example : I enjoyed  myself at the party last night
e)      Indefinite pronouns: Indefinite pronouns, the largest group of pronouns, refer to one or more unspecified persons or things.
Example : I didn’t see anything when I entered the house last night.
f)       Demonstrative pronouns: Demonstrative pronouns (in English, this, that and their plurals these, those) often distinguish their targets by pointing or some other indication of position
Example: This is a list of the new members.
    3.  HELPING VERBSà Helping verbs have no meaning on their own. They are necessary for the grammatical structure of a sentence, but they do not tell us very much alone.
a)      TO BE: AM, IS, ARE
Example : I am an employee
b)      TO BE: WAS, WERE
Example : I was an employee
c)      TO BE: BEING, BEEN
Example : I will be very busy tomorrow morning.
d)     TO BE + USED TO + NOUN/VERB-ING
Example : I am used to hot weather
Example : He is used to having breakfast before leaving for office
e)      THERE IS – THERE ARE
Example : There is a book on the table
Example : There are five books on that table
    4. TENSESà In grammar, tense is a category that locates a situation in time, to indicate when the situation takes place. Tense is the grammaticalisation of time reference, often using three basic categories of "before now", the past; "now", the present; and "after now", the future
a)      Simple Present Tense:
Example: I study English on Monday and Thursday
b)      Present Continuos Tense:
Example: He is looking for his pen in that room
c)      Present Perfect Tense:
Example: We have occupied this house for 3 years
d)     Present Perfect Continuous
Example: Diana has been working for this company for 7 months
e)      Simple Past Tense
Example: We studied English last Tuesday afternoon.
f)       Past Continuous Tense
Example: We were having breakfast at 7 o’clock this morning
g)      Past Perfect Tense
Example: He had sold the car when I came too see it yesterday afternoon.
h)      Past Perfect Continuous
Example: Dhiana had been typing the monthly report for 2 hours at 11 o’clock this morning.
i)        Simple Future Tense
Example: I will spend my holidays in Bali next month.
j)        Future Continuous Tense
Example: I will be leaving for Surabaya by train if you come to my home at 7 o’clock tomorrow afternoon
k)      Future Perfect Tense
Example: They will have finished painting this building by the end of this month
l)        Future Perfect Continuous
Example: I will have been studying Englishfor there years by the time I am 25 years old
     5. ADJECTIVESà An adjective is a word that describes, identifies, modifies, or quantifies something (a noun or a pronoun). In the phrase, "the black cat" the word black is an adjective because it describes the cat. Categorise adjectives:
a)      Position Adjective: When adjectives come in a noun phrase they are normally immediately before the noun. Some adjectives are used alone after nouns.
Example: They live in a large house (attributive position)
Their new house is large (predicative position)
b)      Function Adjective:
Example: I still felt hungry after dinner
c)      Participle Adjective
Example: I was very pleased when I met her
d)     Demonstrative Adjective
Example: I am interested to buy this old shoes
e)      Formation of Adjective:
Example:
·         Noun + y : anger – angry
·         Noun + ful : power – powerful
·         Noun + al : crime – criminal
·         Noun + ous : danger – dangerous
·         Noun + less : taste – tasteless
·         Verb + able : obtain – obtainable
·         Verb + ive : talk – talkative
·         Im + adjective : possible – impossible
·         Ir + adjective : regular – irregular
·         Un + adjective : able – unable
·         Il + adjective : legal – illegal
·         In + adjective : capable – incapable
f)       Positive Degree: The positive form is the base form of the adjective.
Example: The man is as old as my father
g)      Comparative Degree: The comparative form expresses a higher degree of some quality.
Example:
-          English book costs Rp 30.000,-
-          History book costs Rp 25.000,-
Ø  The english book is more expenxive than the history book.
Or
Ø  The history book is cheaper than the english book.
h)      Superlative Degree: The superlative form expresses the highest degree.
Example:
-          The english book costs Rp 35.000,-
-          The history book costs Rp 25.000,-
-          The French book costs Rp 45.000,-
Ø  The history book is the cheapest of three books.
Or
Ø  The French book is the most expensive of the three books.
i)        Double Comparative
Example: As the police chased him, the man run faster and faster.
j)        The Same as – The Same – Similar
Example: your dictionary is the same as my dictionary
    6. MODAL AUXILIARYà A verb that combines with another verb to indicate mood or tense. A modal (also known as a modal auxiliary) expresses necessity, uncertainty, ability, or permission. The modal auxiliaries (or modals) include the following:
a)      Can – Could : I can translate this english novel into Indonesian.
b)      May – Might : You may come to my house if you have time.
c)      Must – Have To : I must help my parents in the garden every Sunday morning.
d)     Shall – Will : I’m very thirsty. I will drink a glass of water.
e)      Should – Ought To : We should respect our teachers.
f)       Would : What would you like to drink?
g)      Needn’t – Mustn’t : I needn’t have bought the apples because she had bought some.
h)      Had Better : You had better not leave this place before they come.
i)        Would Rather : We would rather take a taxi.
j)        Used To : My little sister used to study French.
     7.QUESTION WORD: We use question words to ask certain types of questions (question word questions). Categorise of question word:
a)      What – Who(m) :
-          What book?
-          Who did you meet at the party last night?
-          Whom did you meet at the party last night?
b)      When – Where :
-          When will your brother go to America?
-          Where do you study English?
c)      Which – Whose :
-          Which book do you want to take?
-          Whose umbrella did you borrow?
d)     Why – How :
-          Why do you study English?
-          How many students are there in that room?
    8. VERBSà Verbs are doing words. A verb can express a physical action, a mental action, or a state of being. The verbs which express a state of being are the ones which take a little practice to spot, but, actually, they are the most common. The most common verb is the verb to be. There are several different types of verbs, as follows:
a)      Infinitive : I was the first to come and the last to leave.
b)      Past Form : He took my money in the drawer.
c)      Past Participle : They have played for almost two hours.
d)     Present Participles : Tommy is repairing his car in the garage.
e)      Main Verb : The tallest student in Jane’s class has long black hair and blue eyes.
f)       Verb + To Infinitive : They decided not to continue the construction of the bridge.
g)      Verb + Gerund : The man denied taking all the money in this drawer.
h)      Verb Phrase + Gerund : My father gave up smoking because of his doctor’s advice.
i)        Verb + Infinitive or Gerund : It was beginning to rain when I left the office at 5 p.m yesterday.
     9. ADVERBSà An adverb is a word that’s used to give information about a verb, adjective, or other adverb. Adverbs can make the meaning of a verb, adjective, or other adverb stronger or weaker. There are several different types of adverbs, as follows:
a)      Adverb of Manner : He speaks honestly.
b)      Adverb of Frequency : She will never be late in the afternoon.
c)      Adverb of Certainty : The man probably knows the location of the accident.
    10. PASSIVE VOICEà Passive voice is used when the focus is on the action. It is not important or not known, however, who or what is performing the action.
a)      Passive Voice in All Tenses : His father is always helped (by John) in the garden (simple present tense).
b)      Passive Form of Modals : This novel can be translated (by his brother) into Indonesia.
     11.ARTICLESà The articles in English are the definite article the and the indefinite articles a and an (and sometimes some). Use of the definite article implies that the speaker assumes the listener knows the identity of the noun's referent.
a)      Indefinite Article a-an : A lion is a wild animal.
b)      Definite Article : She is the lady we met at the supermarket yesterday morning.
c)      Zero Article : Cat’s don’t like cold weather.
    12.CONJUNCTIONSà In grammar, a conjunction is a part of speech that connects words, sentences, phrases or clauses. A discourse connective is a conjunction joining sentences. There are several different types of conjunctions, as follows:
a)      Co-ordinating Conjunction: Coordinating conjunctions, also called coordinators, are conjunctions that join, or coordinate, two or more items (such as words, main clauses, or sentences) of equal syntactic importance.
Example : John and I are leaving early tomorrow morning.
b)      Subordinating Conjunction: Subordinating conjunctions, also called subordinator, are conjunctions that join an independent clause and adependent clause.
Example : The man came after we had finished doing our job.
c)      Correlative Conjunction: Correlative conjunctions work in pairs to join words and groups of words of equal weight in a sentence.
Example : Brenda is either a typist or a secretary.
d)     Compound Conjunction
Example : He applied for a job in order that he could help his parents.
      13.PREPOSITIONSà A preposition is a word such as after, in, to, on, and with. Prepositions are usually used in front of nouns or pronouns and they show the relationship between the noun or pronoun and other words in a sentence. They describe, for example:
a)      Simple Preposition: about, above, across, after, etc.
b)      Compound Preposition: despite, beyond, upon, besides, etc
c)      Double Preposition: inspite of, due to, as regards, next to, etc
d)     Participal Preposition: regarding, barring, pending, during, etc
e)      Phrase Preposition: instead of, on account of, in line with, etc
     14.CONDITIONALà Conditional Sentences are also known as Conditional Clauses or If Clauses. They are used to express that the action in the main clause (without if) can only take place if a certain condition (in the clause with if) is fulfilled. There are three types of Conditional Sentences.
a)      Conditional Clause Type 1: If I finish work early today, I will play tennis in the afternoon.
b)      Conditional Clause Type 2: If I had much money I would by a new car
c)      Conditional Clause Type 3: If I had had much money,I would have bought a new car
d)     As If – As Though: He speak as if he were my superior / He speak as though he were my superior.
e)      Wish: I wish she would tell me the secret.
     15.INDIRECT SPEECHà Indirect speech, also called reported speech or indirect discourse, is a means of expressing the content of statements, questions or other utterances, without quoting them explicitly as is done in direct speech.
a)      Indirect Speech – Statement
Direct: Jenni said, “I buy this dictionary at a bookshop.”
Indirect: Jenni told me (that) she bought this dictionary at a bookshop
b)      Indirect Speech – Question
Direct: John asked me, “do you still take an English course?”
Indirect: John asked me if I still took an English course.
c)      Indirect Speech – Question Words
Direct: He said, “when did you buy this new car?”
Indirect: He asked me when I had bought this new car
d)     Indirect Speech – Command
Direct: The instructor said, “lie down on the grass?”
Indirect: The instructor told me to lie down on the grass.
     16.GERUNDà A gerund is a verbal that ends in -ing and functions as a noun. The term verbal indicates that a gerund, like the other two kinds of verbals, is based on a verb and therefore expresses action or a state of being. However, since a gerund functions as a noun, it occupies some positions in a sentence that a noun ordinarily would.
a)      Gerund as subject : Running in the morning is good for health.
b)      Gerund as a complement: One of her hobbies is collecting foreign stamps.
c)      Gerund as an object: My father likes hunting in the forest.
d)     Gerund after preposition: He was not capable of doing the work.
e)      Gerund after possessive adjective: His leaving will make them sad.
f)       Gerund after certain verbs: We kept hoping he would come last night.
g)      Gerund after the verb go: We usually go to fishing on Saturday afternoon.
h)      Passive gerund: This old television set needs repairing
i)        Gerund to show prohibition: No smoking!
    17.CAUSATIVEà The causative is a common structure in English. It is used when one thing or person causes another thing or person to do something. 
a)      Causative – Have: I have him repair the window.
b)      Causative – Get: I often get my little brother to clean his room.
c)      Causative – Make: The robber made the teller give him all the money in the drawer.
     18.ADJECTIVE CLAUSEà An adjective clause usually comes after the noun it modifies and is made up of several words which, like all clauses, will include a subject and a verb.
a)      Subject pronoun: who – which – that
Example:
-          The couple have two boys and two daughters.
-          They live next door.
Ø  The couple who live next door have two boys and two daughters.
Or
Ø  The couple that live next door have two boys and two daughters.
b)      Object pronoun: who – which – that
Example:
-          The man was my english teacher.
-          You saw him at the station last night.
Ø  The man who/whom you saw at the station last night was my english teacher.
Or
Ø  The man that you saw at the station last night was my english teacher.
c)      Using whose and where
Example:
-          The man is my next door neighbor.
-          His computer was stolen a few days ago.
Ø  The man whose computer was stolen a few days ago is my next door neighbor.
       19.NOUN CLAUSEà A noun clause is a clause that plays the role of a noun.
a)      Question word in noun clause:
Example: Where does he work? I don’t know he works
b)      Whether – if in noun clause:
Example: Does she live in Jakarta? I don’t know whether she live in Jakarta.

Source:
     1.      en.wikipedia.org
   2.  Cyssco, Dhanny R (2007). Comprehensive English Grammar Preparation For TOEFL. Bekasi: Penerbit Kesaint Blanc.