Question tag (Pertanyaan Singkat)

Pertanyaan singkat (short question) yang terletak setelah statement (kalimat pertanyaan), imperative (kalimat perintah) dan invitation (kalimat ajakan).

Tujuan dari question tags yaitu untuk meminta persetujuan pendengar dan juga berfungsi untuk meminta penegasan pendengar tentang suatu hal yang belum meyakinkan pembicara.

e.g. :

© you study English in Pare, don’t you?	®	statement
© Close the door will you ?	®	imperative
©Let’s go home, shall we?	®	invitation

Aturan – aturan dalam membuat Question tags:

      A.    Aturan Umum

1.      Bila statement (+) maka tag-nya (-)

2.      Bila statement (-) maka tag-nya (-)

3.      Penulisan negative tag harus disingkat.

e.g. :

Do not	®	Don’t
Shall not	®	Shan’t
Will not	®	Won’t
Must not	®	Mustn’t /needn’t
Have not	®	Haven’t
Used not to	®	Didn’t/usedn’t
Have not to	®	Haven’t
…etc.

4.      Subject tag harus berupa pronoun.

(I, You, They, We, She, He, It, There).

         B.     Aturan Khusus.

1.      Jika dalam statement terdapat ordinary verb berupa “be” maka gunakan “be” tersebut dalam tag-nya seperti:

© Mary was there, wasn’t she?

2.      Jika dalam statement terdapat auxiliary verb, maka gunakan auxiliary dalam tag-nya, seperti :

© He is riding motorcycle, isn’t he?

© Ann can’t swim, can she?

3.      Jika tenses dalam statement berupa simple present (verbal[+]) maka gunakan auxiliary verb “do/does + not” dalam tag-nya, seperti:

© Peter smokes, doesn’t he?

© We invite you, don’t we?

4.      Jika tenses dalam statement berupa simple past (verbal[+]) maka gunakan auxiliary verb “did + not” dalam tag-nya, seperti:

© Peter helped you, didn’t he?

5.      Jika dalam statement terdapat “I am” maka gunakan “aren’t I” dalam tag-nya, seperti:

© I am happy, aren’t I?

6.      Apabila subject statement berupa expletive “there”, maka gunakan “there” tersebut dalam tag-nya, seperti:

© There weren’t any problems, were there?

7.      Jika dalam statement terdapat negative words, maka tag-nya harus berupa kalimat positive (+) .

Certain word : never, no, seldom, rarely, hardly, scarcely, barely, …etc.

Certain subject : nothing, nobody, no one.

e.g. :

© He never comes here, does he?

© Nothing was said, was it?

8.      Jika dalam statement terdapat imperative (+)/(-), maka gunakan “will you” /”won’t you” dalam tagnya, seperti:

© Close the door, will you?

© Don’t be noisy, won’t you?

9.      Jika dalam statement terdapat ajakan “let’s”, maka gunakan “shall we” dalam tag-nya, seperti:

© Let’s go together, shall we?

No.	Sentence	Tags	Example
1.	Kalimat (+)	(-)	He is riding motor cycle, isn’t he?
2.	Kalimat (-)	(+)	She doesn’t study, does she?
3.	Kalimat yang terdapat semi negative words (kata yang mengandung makna negative) seperti : never, no, rarely, hardly, scarcely, seldom, …etc.	(+)	He never comes here, does he?
4.	I am	Aren’t I	I am happy, aren’t I?
5.	I am not	Am I	I am not lazy, am I?
6.	Kalimat perintah (Imperative)	Will you/ won’t you	Close the door, will you? Don’t be noisy, won’t you? (“won’t you” ® more polite)
7.	Let’s + Bi (bare infinitive)	Shall we	Let’s go together, shall we?
8.	Modal: Can, may, …etc.	Can’t Mayn’t	You can speak English, can’t you? Ann can’t swim, can she?
9.	Subject berupa indefinite person: Someone, nobody, …etc.	They	Someone came here yesterday, didn’t they? Nobody would object, would they?
10.	Subject berupa indefinite thing: Something, everything, ...	It	Everything is OK, isn’t it?
11.	Subject berupa kata ‘that/this’.	It	This is my book, isn’t it?
12.	Subject berupa kata ‘those/these’	They	These are your novel, aren’t they?
13.	Subject berupa kata ‘there’	There	There weren’t any problems, were there?

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