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Question Tags – Rules and Usage
Introduction
Question tags are short questions at the end of a statement. They are used to confirm information or ask for agreement. A positive statement takes a negative tag, and a negative statement takes a positive tag. The auxiliary verb in the tag matches the tense of the main verb.
Formation of Question Tags
- Positive statement + Negative tag: “You are a student, aren’t you?”
- Negative statement + Positive tag: “You aren’t tired, are you?”
- With auxiliary verbs: “She can swim, can’t she?”, “They have arrived, haven’t they?”
- Without auxiliary (present simple): use do/does. “You like coffee, don’t you?”
- Without auxiliary (past simple): use did. “He went home, didn’t he?”
Exercises
1. Add question tags: “You are happy, ___?”, “He doesn’t like tea, ___?”. 2. Complete: “She can speak French, ___?”, “We should go, ___?”. 3. Write 5 sentences with question tags about your daily life. 4. What is the intonation for asking confirmation vs asking a real question?
Summary
Question tags confirm information. Positive statement + negative tag. Negative statement + positive tag. The auxiliary verb in the tag matches the statement. Use do/does/did if there is no auxiliary.
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