Rumus Wh-

Contoh Kalimat Yes-No Question

Question

Simple Present Tense

 Do you like playing tennis?

 Do/Does + S (Apakah kamu suka bermain tenis?)
+ bare  Is she a dermatologist?
infinitive (Apakah dia dokter kulit?)
 Am/Is/Are + S Soal Yes-No Simple Present

Present Continuous Tense

Am/Is/Are + S + V- Is he making food for his cats?

ing (present (Apakah dia sedang membuat makanan untuk kucing-kucingnya?)
participle) Soal Yes-No Present Continuous

Present Perfect Tense

Has Tommy been to Balikpapan?

Have/Has + S + V- (Pernahkah Tommy ke Balikpapan?)
3 (past participle) Soal Yes-No Present Perfect

Present Perfect Continuous Tense

Have/Has + S +
been + V-ing Have the passangers been waiting for the next flight since this morning?
(present participle) (Apakah para penumpang telah menunggu penerbangan berikutnya sejak pagi ini?)

Simple Past Tense

 Did the team work well yesterday?

(Apakah tim tersebut bekerja dengan baik kemarin?)
 Did + S + bare  Were you good at school?
infinitive (Apakah kamu baik di sekolah?)
 Was/Were + S Soal Yes-No Simple Past

Past Continuous Tense

Was/Were + S + V-
ing (present Were your roommate sleeping when I called her?
participle) (Apakah teman sekamarmu sedang tidur ketika saya meneleponnya?)

Past Perfect Tense

Had he prepared the room when the guests arrived?

Had + S + V-3 (Sudahkah dia menyiapkan ruangan ketika para tamu tiba?)
(past participle) Soal Yes-No Past Perfect

Past Perfect Continuous Tense

Had + S + been +
V-ing (present Had the students been reading a half part of the text by the time the teacher came?
participle) (Sudahkah para siswa membaca setengah bagian teks pada saat guru datang?)

Simple Future Tense

  Will + S + bare
infinitive  Will he call me later?
 Am/Is/Are + S + (Apakah dia akan menelepon saya nanti?)
going to + bare  Is Diana going to continue doing her work?
infinitive (Apakah Diana akan melanjutkan melakukan pekerjaannya?)

Future Continuous Tense

Will + S + be + V-
ing (present Will you be sleeping at 10 o’clock?
participle) (Apakah kamu akan sedang tidur jam 10 malam?)

Future Perfect Tense

Will + S + have + Will the mechanic have repaired my car tomorrow?

V-3 (past participle) (Apakah mekanik akan telah memperbaiki mobil saya besok?)

Future Perfect Continuous Tense

Will + S + have
been + V-ing Will Yogi have been living in Germany for a year by the end of this month?
(present participle) (Apakah Yogi akan telah tinggal di Jerman selama setahun pada akhir bulan ini?)

Catatan:
 is/does/has untuk third person singular (Ana, Tommy, she, he, it)
 was untuk “I” dan third person singular (Ana, Tommy, she, he, it)
 do untuk “I”, “you”, dan plural subject (Ana and Tomi, we, they)
 are/were untuk “you” dan plural subject (Ana and Tomi, we, they)
 have untuk “I”, “you”, dan plural subject (Ana and Tomi, we, they) dan pada future
perfect dan future perfect continuous tense tidak terpengaruh gender
 am hanya untuk “I”