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What Did You Learn About "Tag Questions"?: Example: They Like The Movies, Don't They?
What Did You Learn About "Tag Questions"?: Example: They Like The Movies, Don't They?
They’re questions that are made from another question to reaffirm the
information
It’s like reaffirming the question.
Here you need to remember that you are going to use always the same auxiliar or
verb in the opposite way and if the sentence is affirmative, the question tag is
negative, and if the sentence is negative, the questions tag is positive. You can
use this with the verb be, Do-Does, will and others auxiliaries.
Adding the rules, when you don’t have the verb be you need to add an auxiliar.
Example: they like the movies, don’t they?
Rules:
Always use the same auxiliar or verb be that is in the first sentence.
Is the first part being positive, the second part is negative, and if the first part is
negative the second is positive.
This is important because this way we can reaffirm our questions to people or
make it more important, making known the degree of interest