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QUESTION TAGS
1. A tag question is a short question (e.g. have you? / haven't you?) that follows a
statement:
negative sentence + positive tag
Tomwon'tbe late, —_willlhe?
They dor’tlike us, do they?
That isn’t George over there, sit?
positive sentence + negative tag
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: Annwill be here soon, __ won't she? :
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1 Tom should pass his exam, shouldn't he? 1
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: ‘They were very angry, weren’t they? '
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3. How do we form QUESTION TAGS?
a) Auxiliaries like be, have, can, may, must, should, etc. used in the statement
are reported at the end followed by the subject (always a pronoun):
John [was] annoyed, [wasn’t] he?
auxiliary verb
He [wasn’t] annoyed, [ was] he?
Lam late, aren’t? [_)) Notice that we say aren"t
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inline English Class ~ [Link] pt b) With all other verbs, tag questions are formed with do/don’t and
does/doesn’t (Present Simple) and did/didn’t (Past Simple):
You like fish, don’t you? They don’t like fish, do they?
He likes fish, doesn’t he? She liked fish, didn’t she?
Add a question-tag to these sentences:
1. Heis late this morning,
2. The hotel was quite good, ?
She cooks well,
You can’t tell the difference,
They always sleep after lunch, ?
oy ey
You're coming with us,
Mary plays football,
8. You didn’t have any lessons this morning, 2
9. Annis on holiday,
10. The students see it everyday, 2
11, Mr Priestley doesn’t know your father, 2
12. There are lots of cars here,
inline English Class ~ [Link] 13. 1am not disturbing you, ?
14. Tom does his work very well, 2
45. This isn’t very pleasant, ?
16. She likes qui
places, ?
17. Tom doesn’t play the piano,
18. They didn’t hurt the child,
19. There were two car accidents yesterday, 2
20. Tourists used to come here, 2
21. You haven't got a computer, 2
22. You don’t have to follow him, 2
23. He has to fill a form, 2
24. He didn’t have to choose one,
25. He has your ticket,
26. Everything is all right,
27. He has got to leave, ?
28. Smoking ruins our health, ?
29. Most people cannot go to Africa, ?
30. Finding a job isn’t easy,
inline English Class - [Link] Mil