Is "It's bad, huh?" a Yes/No question?

[Zoli]

Person A: It's bad, huh?

Does the "huh?" makes it a YES/NO question?

 

[probus]

Yes. Huh = isn't it.

By the way, you should use "make" rather than "makes" in your question.

 

[Tdol]

Mind you, the answer is probably that it is bad.

 

[Tarheel]

A brief conversation.

Abe: It's bad, huh?
Bob: Yes, it's really bad.

 

[Zoli]

Is "It's bad, huh?" considered a tag question? I think that is the grammatical name. Right?

 

[jutfrank]

You seem essentially to be asking whether huh? can be considered a question. Well, that depends of course on what you mean by 'question'. In one way, yes, it is, because the aim of the speaker is to elicit a response from the listener. Mind you, a speaker could do the same thing without any tag at all (It's bad?). However, the tag huh is not what we teachers normally consider a question tag when we're teaching grammar.

Be careful not to confuse grammatical structure with pragmatics. In grammar, the idea of a question is associated with a particular order of words whereas in pragmatics it's about what the speaker means to do.

 

[5jj]

In that 'huh?' functions in the same way as 'isn't it?', I would say that it is a question tag. It is a(n informal) way of turning a statement into a question.

 

[outofdejavu]

How about directing the OP to the concept of "rhetorical question"?

*The hyperlink goes to a webpage of The Free Dictionary.