A. DEFINISI
Question Tag adalah pertanyaan singkat yang diletakkan di akhir kalimat untuk meminta penjelasan. Dalam bahasa Indonesia, question tag biasa dinyatakan dengan “bukan”, “kan”, dan “iya kan”, seperti di bawah ini:
Kamu sudah mengerjakannya, bukan?
Kamu sudah tahu, kan?
Dia mengerti maksudku, iya kan?
B. POLA
| SENTENCES | QUESTION TAGS | EXAMPLES |
| Kalimat positif | kalimat negatif | She is a nurse, isn’t she? |
| Kalimat negatif | kalimat positif | You don’t fast, do you? |
| Negative words* | Kalimat positif | He never comes back, does he? |
| I am | aren’t I | I am brilliant, aren’t I? |
| I am not | am I | I am not a kid, am I? |
| Let’s (let us) + V1 | shall we | Let’s dance together, shall we? |
| Perintah | will you | Give me a chance, will you? |
| Larangan | will you | Don’t blame me, will you? |
| Indefinite pronoun person** |
they | Someone took my book, didn’t they? |
| Indefinite pronoun non-person*** |
it | Something went wrong, didn’t it? |
| Modal positif | modal negatif | She can swim, can’t she? |
| Modal negatif | modal positif | Mark shouldn’t come, should he? |
| This/that | it | This is yours, isn’t it? |
| These/those | they | These are your books, aren’t they? |
| There (subject) | there | There is water on the floor, isn’t there? |
Keterangan:
* Negative words
No, not only, neither, never, seldom, rarely, scarcely, barely, hardly ever, …
** Indefinite pronoun person (kata ganti orang yang tidak jelas)
Someone somebody
Everyone everybody
Anyone anybody
No one nobody
*** Indefinite pronoun non person (kata ganti benda yang tidak jelas)
Something
Everything
Anything
Nothing
