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PENGERTIAN
Question tag
adalah pertanyaan pendek yang ditambahkan di akhir pernyataan (declarative
sentence) untuk menanyakan informasi atau meminta persetujuan.
Seperti idiom (ungkapan
bahasa Inggris), question tag merupakan bagian
yang sering digunakan dalam percakapan sehari-hari seorang native
speaker. Walaupun grammar, pronounciation, dan intonation-nya
baik, seseorang dapat mudah dikenali bukan sebagai native
speaker jika tidak menggunakan question tag.
Rumus Question Tag
linking verb “be”/auxiliary
verb +/- not + pronoun
Keterangan:
- linking verb “be” yaitu: is, am, are, was, were, sedangkan auxiliary verb berupa primary auxiliary verb (be, do, have) atau modal auxiliary verb (will, would, may, may, might, can, could, shall, should) yang cocok dengan verb pada bagian pernyataan.
- Pronoun disesuaikan dengan subject pada bagian pernyataan.
Intonasi pada Question Tag
Tujuan dari penggunaan question
tag adalah untuk menanyakan informasi atau meminta
persetujuan. Ketika menggunakannya untuk menanyakan informasi, posisi speaker tidak
tahu apakah informasi tersebut benar atau salah. Pada kondisi tersebut, question
tag diberi penekanan dengan intonasi naik (rising intonation).
Adapun ketika question tag digunakan
untuk meminta persetujuan, speaker yakin bahwa informasi
yang diketahui benar, namun mengharapkan jawaban yang mendukung
keyakinannya. Pada situasi itu question tag dilafalkan
tanpa penekanan dengan intonasi turun (falling intonation).
DEFINITION OF
QUESTION TAG
A question tag or tag
question (also known as tail question) is a grammatical
structure in which a declarative statement or an imperative
is turned into a question by adding an interrogative
fragment (the "tag").For example, in the sentence "You're John,
aren't you?", the statement "You're John" is turned into a question
by the tag "aren't you". The term "question tag" is
generally preferred by British grammarians, while their American counterparts
prefer "tag question".
EXAMPLE
1. Simple present tense
I’m trying to tell you what happened, aren’t I?
2.
Present
continuous tense
We are going to Solo, aren’t we?
3. Simple past tense
Raguvendra is an actor, didn’t he?
4. Present perfect tense
She has cooked for dinner, hasn’t she?
5. Present perfect continuous tense
Nina’d been studying hard,
hasn’t she?
6. Past continuous tense
Hanny was studying hard, wasn’t she?
7. Past perfect tense
Dinda had studied hard, hadn’t she?
8. Past perfect continuous tense
She’d been playing
badminton since 5 o’clock, hadn’t she?
9. Simple future tense
we will get married in July, won’t we?
10. Future continuous tense
He will be working, won’t he?
11. Future perfect tense
Naura’d have finished
this book, won’t she?
12. Future perfect continuous tense
They have been waiting their professor for
one minutes, haven’t they?
13. Simple past future tense
He would work hard, wouldn’t he?
14. Past future continuous tense
Tapasya’d be watching the movie, wouldn’t she?
15. Past future perfect tense
Dani’d have wactied that movie , wouldn’t he?
16. Past future perfect continuous tense
Riana’d have been cooking for 30 minutes, wouldn’t she?
