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Question tags are short questions that are asked at the end of sentences in English for the
interlocutor (the person with whom we speak) to check or discard the information of the
expressed sentence.
Now I will mention a little about the rules of the tag questions.
We use the questions tag in such a way, using small questions at the end of an affirmative or
negative sentence to check if we are correct.
In the sentence it is: You are a student is a positive statement while aren't you is a negative
question tag.
This would be a good example in general but there are different structures for affirmative
sentences for example:
For an affirmative sentence it is: affirmative sentence + comma + negative auxiliary + subject
pronoun?
for example:
For a negative sentence it is: negative sentence + comma + auxiliary in affirmative + subject
pronoun?
For example:
I should mention about the intonation with which it is spoken. There are two ways: Rising
intonation and falling intonation.
Rising intonation that is, at the end of the question we must slowly raise the intonation so that the
question sounds more natural.
Falling intonation is when at the end of the question the intonation slowly drops.
That is what I understood about the subject in a general way. Without forgetting that it depends
on the verb and on the time it is spoken.