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Question Tag Usage and Examples

A question tag is a statement followed by a short question, commonly used in spoken language for confirmation. The structure involves a positive statement with a negative tag and vice versa, with specific exceptions for verbs like 'have' and 'do'. Examples and exercises are provided to illustrate the use of question tags in various sentence forms.

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Question Tag Usage and Examples

A question tag is a statement followed by a short question, commonly used in spoken language for confirmation. The structure involves a positive statement with a negative tag and vice versa, with specific exceptions for verbs like 'have' and 'do'. Examples and exercises are provided to illustrate the use of question tags in various sentence forms.

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 Question tag

Q-1 What is a question tag?

A question tag is a simple statement followed by a short question. Question tags are most often
used in spoken language to confirm something that is said and also to encourage the listener
to give an answer.

Q2 What is the structure of a sentence with a question tag?

A sentence containing a question tag will have the following structure:

Positive statement, negative tag?

Negative statement, positive tag?

Q3 What are the exceptions to be taken care of when using question tags?

Here are a few exceptions to be noted when using question tags.

Sentences with ‘have’, ‘has’ and ‘had’ as the main verb use the positive and negative form of ‘do’ as
the question tag.

Sentences with pronouns such as ‘nothing’ and ‘nobody’ should be considered negative
statements and a positive tag has to be used. For example, Nothing is working, is it?

Sentences with action verbs in the simple present tense form a question tag using the verb
‘do/does’ and its corresponding negative form.

A sentence In the past tense will have question tags formed using the verb ‘did’.

As far as imperative sentences are concerned, use the positive or negative form of the verb ‘will’
to form the question tag.

When a statement expresses emotions of anger, surprise or interest, the question tag used has to
be positive even though the statement is positive.

Q4 Some examples of sentences with question tags.

Here is a list of sentences with question tags for your reference.

Bring a loaf of bread when you come, will you?

You did not find the book you were looking for, did you?

Nobody knew what happened to Sandeep, did they?

He has been meaning to talk to you about it, hasn’t he?

Everything was planned perfectly, wasn’t it?


Q -Add Proper Question tag.

1. You must be there by 11:30 a.m., ___________

2. Gowri is not present today, ___________

3. The teacher had asked you to submit an address proof, ___________

4. He is the prime suspect, ___________

5. Harini and Gowtham were not here, ___________

6. Get me the duster, ___________

7. I don’t think your sister will be pleased to see this, ___________

8. You will have waited for me, ___________

9. They brought a bottle of wine when they came, ___________

10. Dom and Andreah have a baby girl, ___________

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