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                                                                    QUESTION TAG
                             -Pengertian - Definisi - Contoh kalimat menggunakan (16 tenses)

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?