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Question Tags
Statement Sentences with short questions at
the end with a question mark!
Tag-Questions
A tag-question or question tag is not
a true
question.
A tag question is used at the end of a
Statement Sentence to get the
confirmation from the listener, or just
to express ones doubt.
A question sentence, on the contrary, is
used to get the answer.
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Making a tag-question sentence:
She is your friend
,
isnt she
?
A positive tag-question sentence!
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There
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Point
2:
Even
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Point 2 (continued)
John has gone home, hasnt
he
pronoun male singular subjective case
Tag-Question
Point 2 (continued)
they
Personal Pronoun male -- plural
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Point 3
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Point 3 (continued)
She is your sister,
she?
is main verb Simple Present Tense POSITIVE
isnt
Simple present tense NEGATIVE
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Point 3 (continued)
Brad hasnt done his work,
he?
hasnt Present perfect NEGATIVE
has
Present perfect -- POSITIVE
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3 (continued)
Kate goes to school,
she?
goes Simple present POSITIVE
does not go Simple present NEGATIVE
doesnt
Point 4
The negative form of the verb in the tag part is
always contracted:
Point
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Point 3 (continued)
James did not go to school,
he?
did not go Simple past NEGATIVE
go Simple past Positive; however, in
tag part, the auxiliary (helping) verb
alone is used:
did
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Point 5 -- Word order
In the statement sentence (in the main
sentence) the subject comes first and
the verb comes next; but in the tag
part, the verb comes first and the
subject comes next, just as in the
interrogative sentence.
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Main sentence
tag part
Subject first; verb next
Verb first; subject next
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