Matakuliah
Tahun
Versi
: G0134/Grammar III
: 2005
: revisi 1
Pertemuan 13
Question Words + Question Tags
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Learning Outcomes
Pada akhir pertemuan ini, diharapkan mahasiswa
akan mampu :
• menyusun kalimat dengan menggunakan
question words and question tags yang
benar
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Outline Materi
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Questions about the Subject
Questions about the Object
Special cases of question tags
Uses of question tags
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Question words
• Questions about the subject
• When we ask questions about the subject
of a sentence, the word order in the
question and the answer is the same:
» Ben designed this house.
» Who designed this house?
We use what, who, which, whose and how
many in questions about the subject.
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Question words
• Questions about the object
• Questions about the object need an
auxiliary verb (do, have, is, etc.) before the
subject:
» Hilmy designed this bridge.
» What did Hilmy design?
We use what, which, who, whose, when,
where, how often, etc. in questions about
the object.
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Question words
We use what, which, who, whose, when, where,
how often, etc. in questions about the object.
»Which cathedral Ben built?
»Which cathedral did Ben build?
Position of prepositions
• Note the change in the position of a preposition
in questions about the object: I gave the book to
John. becomes: Who did you give the book to?
or To whom did you give the book? (= formal)
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Question Tags
• Uses of question tags:
• To get agreement from the person we are
speaking to:
• You don’t come from Spain, do you?
(=voice falls on the tag = the speaker
expects the answer no)
• You come from Italy, don’t you? (=voice
rises on the tag = the speaker expects the
answer yes)
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Question tags
• To ask politely:
You couldn’t give me a hand with this box, could
you?
• To order people to do things politely. The tag is
usually positive:
Clear the table, will you?
• To make an informal offer: Have a drink, won’t
you?
• To make a polite suggestion: Let’s go to the
beach, shall we?
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