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Question Tags

Tag questions are statements followed by a mini question used to seek confirmation, such as 'Am I right?' or 'Do you agree?'. The basic structure includes positive statements followed by negative questions and vice versa, with examples provided for various tenses. Special cases and imperative forms of tag questions are also addressed.

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Question Tags

Tag questions are statements followed by a mini question used to seek confirmation, such as 'Am I right?' or 'Do you agree?'. The basic structure includes positive statements followed by negative questions and vice versa, with examples provided for various tenses. Special cases and imperative forms of tag questions are also addressed.

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QUES

TIONS
WHAT IS IT?

TAGS
 It is a statement followed by a mini question.
 We use tag questions at the end of statements to ask for
confirmation.
 They mean something like: “Am I right?” or “Do you agree?”.

TAG QUESTIONS-BASIC STRUCTURE


POSITIVE STATEMENT NEGATIVE STATEMENT
It is a great day, isn’t it?
NEGATIVE STATEMENT POSITIVE STATEMENT
You don’t know her, do you?

EXAMPLES WITH POSITIVE STATEMENTS


POSITIVE STATEMENT NEGATIVE
STATEMENT
Tense Subject Auxiliar Main Auxiliar Personal pronoun
y verb y (as a subject)
Present Continuous She is cooking, isn’t she?
Present Simple You like ice- don’t you?
cream,
Future Simple They will stay home, won’t they?
Modal Verbs He can play chess, can’t he?
Modal Verbs We should go home, shouldn we?
’t
TO BE (Past Simple) Jenny was busy, wasn’t she?
TO BE (Present You are French, aren´t you?
Simple)
Present Perfect They have finished, haven´t they?
Past Simple He cooked dinner, didn’t he?
EXAMPLES WITH NEGATIVE STATEMENTS
NEGATIVE STATEMENT POSITIVE STATEMENT
Tense Subject Auxiliar Main Auxiliar Personal pronoun
y verb y (as a subject)
Present Continuous It isn’t snowing, is it?
Present Simple She Doesn’t like pork, does she?
Present Perfect You have been there, have you?
never
Modal Verbs He can’t come, can he?
Modal Verbs We shouldn drink much, shouldn we?
’t ’t
TO BE (Past Simple) Jane wasn’t sick, was she?
TO BE (Present They aren’t home, are they?
Simple)
Past Simple They didn’t practice today, did they?

Special cases
I am right, aren’t I? aren’t I (not amn’t I)
I have been answering, haven’t I? use first auxiliary
IMPERATIVE
Help me find the tickets, won’t you? won’t you?
Don’t make any noise, will you? will you?
Let’s go, shall we? let’s=let us

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