- Pengertian Question Tag
Question tag adalah suatu pertanyaan pendek yang mengakhiri (diakhir) suatu kalimat, question tag ini digunakan untuk menanyakan (penegasan) suatu informasi atau untuk meminta/memohon suatu persetujuan dari orang lain (lawan bicara).
Sederhananya, kalau diartikan ke bahasa Indonesia, question tag akan menjadi seperti : “kan?”, “iya kan?”, “ya kan?”, “ya?”,”bukan?”.
Dalam question-tags, diperlukan auxiliary atau kata kerja bantu. Jenis auxiliary antara lain:
- Be auxiliary
- is, am, atau are (untuk bentuk present tense/sekarang)
- was atau were (untuk bentuk past tense/lampau)
- Do auxiliary
- do dan does (untuk bentuk present tense/sekarang)
- did (untuk bentuk past tense/lampau)
- Have auxiliary
- have dan has (untuk bentuk present perfect tense)
- had (untuk bentuk past perfect tense)
- Modal auxiliary: can, may, must, should, could, might
Shall dan Will untuk bentuk future tense
- Pattern of Question Tag
Ada dua rumus yang dapat anda gunakan untuk menyusun question tag, ini bukan pilihan tapi anda harus menyesuaikan penggunaannya berdasarkan bentuk kalimat/pernyataan yang mendahului question tag. Adapun rumusnya yaitu :
Positif tag = Auxiliary Verb + Pronoun
Jika bentuk kalimatnya negatif, maka gunakan rumus positif tag (untuk menyusun positif tag).
Negatif tag = Auxiliary Verb + Not + Pronoun
Jika kalimatnya positif maka gunakan rumus negatif tag (untuk menyusun negatif tag).
Example :
- You aren’t a student, are you?
- They weren’t at home, were they?
- You don’t like gardening, do you?
- Siska didn’t go to Africa, did she?
- You won’t leave me,will you?
- Raisya went to Bali, didn’t she?
- They will go to Bandung, won’t they?
- Bella comes from Italy, doesn’t she?
- This is your house, isn’t it?
- There is a party tonight, isn’t there?
Bentuk Auxiliary
| Is not
Are not Was not Were not Does not Do not Did not Has not Have not |
Isn’t
Aren’t Wasn’t Weren’t Doesn’t Don’t Didn’t Hasn’t Haven’t |
Had not
Cannot May not Must not Should not Could not Might not Shall not Will not |
Hadn’t
Can’t May not Mustn’t Shouldn’t Couldn’t Mightn’t Shan’t Won’t |
- Cara Membuat Question Tag
- Jika kalimatnya positif, maka menggunakan negative tag.
– She willvisit me, won’t she?
– My father can drive a car, can’t he?
– She was your girlfriend, wasn’t she?
- Jika kalimatnya negative, menggunakan postitf tag.
– She doesn’t bring my book, does she?
– Dhila didin’t love you, did she?
– You can’t speak English, can you?
- Jika simple present tense, menggunakan do/does
Jika simple past tense, menggunakan did
Gunakan satu auxiliary yang pertama apabila terdapat lebih dari satu auxiliary.
– They always go to school every morning, don’t they?
– They went to school yesterday, did they?
– We will have* graduated from college by the end of this year, won’t we?
Note: Will dan have adalah sama-sama auxiliary, maka yang digunakan auxiliary yang pertama, yaitu will.
- Jika terdapat kata-kata yang mempunyai arti negative, maka menggunkana positif tag. Kata-kata tersebut adalah:
Never Seldom Scarely rarely
Hardly few little no one
Unusual absent nothing impossible
– Abdul seldom takes a bath, does he?
– She hardlyever visits you, does she? (dia hampir tidak pernah mengunjungimu)
– It is impossible to move, is it?
- Kata few dan little menggunakan positif tag, sedangkan kata a few dan a little menggunakan negative tag. Kata few diletakkan sebelum kata benda yang dapat dihitung (countable noun), sedang little untuk kata benda yang tidak dapat dihitung (uncountable noun).
– Few students are playing football, do they?
– A few students are playing football, don’t they?
– She needed little milk, did she?
– She needed a little milk, didn’t she?
- Khusus am not tidak dapat disingkat, harus diganti aren’t.
– I ama teacher, aren’t I? (bukan amn’t I)
– I am not a teacher, am I?
- Kalimat perintah (imperative), baik menyuruh atau melarang, menggunakan: Will you?
– Open the door, will you?
– Don’t throw the rubbish outside, will you?
- Kalimat ajakan let’s, menggunakan: Shall we?
– Let’sstart new season, shall we?
– Let’sgo to school together, shall we?
- Perhatikan perubahan subject (pronoun) dari pernyataan ke question tag:
– Everyoneis so sad, aren’t they?
(Dalam kalimat pernyataan, everyone menggunakan to be is, namun ketika dijadikan question tag, everyone berubah menjadi they, maka perubahan pronoun mempengaruhi perubahan to be.
– Everybody…………they?
– Someone……………they?
– Somebody………….they?
- Perubahan subject dari pernyataan ke question tag yang menggunakan:
– Everything………it?
– Something……….it?
– A car……………..it?
– A beautiful view…it?
– Everything is under control, isn’t it?
– Something has lost, hasn’t it?
- Kalimat yang menggunakan this, that, those, these.
– This is Friday, isn’t it?
– That was my cat, wasn’t it?
– Those cars are new, aren’t they?
– These books were expensive, weren’t they?
– This motor is broken, isn’t it?
- Kalimat yang menggunakan none of… mengikuti subject setelah of. Dan selalu menggunakan positif tag, karena none of itu singkatan dari no one of yang mempunyai arti negative (tak seorangpun dari…)
– None ofus will buy it, will we?
– None ofthem will buy it, will they?
- Perhatikan pola gabungan dari beberapa subject berikut ini.
– I + all of subjects = we
– We + all of subjects = we
– You + all of subjects, except I/we = you
– Subject III (She, he, andi) + subject III = they
– She and I will invite you, won’t we?
– You and she are couple, aren’t you?
– She and he weren’t together, were they?
- Apabila kalimatnya berbentuk majemuk (yang terdiri dari induk kalimat / main clause dan anak kalimat / sub clause) maka question tag-nya mengikuti induk kalimatnya (main clause).
– He will visit you if you tell him where you are, won’t he?
– I was watching tv when my father came last night, wasn’t I?
- Beberapa Contoh Soal Question Tag
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