Sulih tumbas itu penting untuk pemarkahan.

That spare is important for scoring.

Breakdown of Sulih tumbas itu penting untuk pemarkahan.

• itu: that
• penting: important
• untuk: for
• sulih tumbas: a spare (bowling)

Questions & Answers about Sulih tumbas itu penting untuk pemarkahan.

Why is there no word for is in this sentence?

Malay often leaves out the verb to be in simple sentences like this.

So instead of saying something like X is important, Malay can simply say:

• X penting

Here, penting works directly as the predicate.

A more formal version could include adalah:

• Sulih tumbas itu adalah penting untuk pemarkahan.

But in normal usage, leaving adalah out is very common and natural.

Why does itu come after sulih tumbas instead of before it?

In Malay, demonstratives like ini and itu usually come after the noun, not before it.

So:

• buku ini = this book
• rumah itu = that house

In your sentence:

• sulih tumbas itu

means something like that substitution technique / the substitution in question, depending on context.

Very often, itu does more than just mean that. It can also make the noun phrase feel more specific or already known, a bit like the in English.

What kind of word is penting here?