QUESTION TAGS

Name Of Group :
1. Muhamad Agung Hadianto (118112109)
2. Ni Ketut Dera Asmana Saskara (118112113)
3. Desak Putu Gita Parwati (118112107)
4. Ni Komang Ayu Prabuda Umaniari (118112110)
5. Maria Yunita Apriyati (118112105)
6. Ni Made Sri Adnyani (118112106)

Manajemen
Fakultas Ekonomi dan Bisnis
Universitas Pendidikan Nasional Denpasar
2018

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 LIST OF CONTENT

LIST OF CONTENTS ........................................................................................... 2

CHAPTER 1 : INTRODUCTION…..…....……………………………………... 3

CHAPTER II : CONTENTS …………………………………………………….. 4

2.1 What is Question Tags? …………...….................................................……..3

2.2 Question Tag Formula ….………..…....................................…................…..4

2.3 Positive Question Tags …..............................................………........………... 5

2.4 Negative Question Tags ….................................................………………… . 6

2.5 Imtonation Of Question Tags ………....................................………………...7

CHAPTER III : CLOSING

3.1 Conclusion …………………..………………………………………………..8

REFERENCES …………………..…………………………………………...….. 9

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 CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION

Question tags is a very common used in English daily conversation. The

sentence pattern of question tags is used to ask for confirmation from the listeners
about something uncertain for the speaker.
The word ‘not’ in this sentence that we recognize in English as question
tags. Question tags are format using auxiliary verb (is, are, do, does, did, have,
has, can, may, must, shall, will, etc) which are combine with pronoun (I, you, she,
he, it, we, they) with the formula as following :
 For the positive statements, Negative Question Tags.
 For the negative statements, Positive Question Tags.

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 CHAPTER II
CONTENT

2.1 DEFINITION OF QUESTION TAGS

Question tag is a short clause at the end of a statement which changes the
statement into a question. Question tags are used when asking for agreement
or confirmation.
2.2 PATTERN OF QUESTION TAGS

A positive statement is followed by a negative question tag.

 Mary can speak English, can't she?

A negative statement is followed by a positive question tag.

 He shouldn't say things like that, should he?

 When the verb in the main sentence is in the simple present tense we form
the question tag with is, am, are, do, or does.
 You play the guitar, don't you?
 If the verb is in the simple past tense we use did, was, or were.
 They went to the cinema, didn't they?

 If the verb is in the present perfect tense we use have or has.

 If the verb is in the past perfect tense we use had.

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 If the verb is in the future tense we use shall or will. We can also use
modal auxiliary (can, may, must, should, could, might).
 When the statement contains a word with a negative meaning, the question
tag needs to be positive.
 He hardly ever speaks, does he?
 They rarely eat in restaurants, do they?

2.3 POSITIVE QUESTION TAGS

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 2.4 NEGATIVE QUESTION TAGS

 EXCEPTIONS
Some verbs / expressions have different question tags.
For example :
 I am : I am attractive, aren't I?
 Positive imperative : Stop daydreaming, will/won't you?
 Negative imperative : Don't stop singing, will you?
 Let's : Let's go to the beach, shall we?
 Have got (possession) : He has got a car, hasn't he?
 There is/are :There aren't any spiders in the bedroom, are
there?
 This/that is : This is Paul's pen, isn't it?

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2.5 INTONATION

Back to the aim of the usage of question tags, that is to ask for
information or confirmation. When the question tag is used to ask for
information, speaker position is “He/She doesn’t know whether the
information is right or wrong”. In this condition, question tags is given a
pressure with rising intonation.

Otherwise, when the Tag is used to ask for confirmation the speaker
convinces that the known- information is true. At that time the speaker just
expect the answer to support his convincing, question tag is expressed with
falling intonation

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 CHAPTER 3
CONCLUSION

Question tags is a very common used in English daily conversation. The

sentence pattern of question tags is used to ask for confirmation from the listeners
about something uncertain for the speaker.
By learning question tags, people can understand how to express
confirmation or asking for information in English. Not just to understand, but to
be a good speaker with using a good sentence. We hope that our paper can explain
to the reader relate to question tag how to express it in a sentence.

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 REFERENCES

http://www.grammar.cl/Intermediate/Question_Tags.htm
http://izha-serbaserbi.blogspot.com/2017/09/makalah-question-tag-tag-question.html