TAG QUESTION

TAG QUESTION

Pertanyaan Tumpang, letaknya selalu di belakang

Tujuan: untuk meminta kepastian atau kejelasan dari orang lain

Syarat:

1.      Jika pernyataan (+), Tag (-)?

2.      Jika pernyataan (-), Tag (+)?

3.      Subjek dalam Tag dalam bentuk kata ganti (pronoun)

4.      Tag (-) selalu dalam bentuk negatif

5.      Penentu Tag – lihat predikat

Jika pernyataan negatif, tag dilihat yang ditempeli oleh not

Macam-macam predikat yang negatif (-):

(disingkat HARNONESSER)

HARdly = sukar

NO_: noting, no one, etc.

NEver

Scarcely = hampir tidak

SEldom

Rarely = jarang

Barely = dengan kosong, tiada

Examples:

1.            Ani is a nurse, isn’t she?

2.            Tono and Toni study hard, don’t they?

3.            They will go to Bali, won’t they?

4.            Toni has bought a car, hasn’t he?

5.            Tini is sweeping the floor, isn’t she?

6.            Tono didn’t study hard, did he?

7.            I am not a student, am I?

8.            I am a teacher, am I not? (atau aren’t I)

9.            You have much money, don’t you?

10.       Toni and I never eat bakso, do we?

11.       You and your mother went to Jember, didn’t you? (you = kalian)

12.       They will have been writing letters for 5 hours, won’t they?

13.       She hardly works hard, does she?

Perkecualian:

I am very early this morning, aren’t I? Atau

I am very early this morning, am I not?

tetapi

I am not very late, am I?