Question Tags

Generally question tags are used in spoken english for the “confirmation of a statement”.Tags has two parts. They are

1. Statement
2. Tag/ Question Tag

Ex She likes music, doesn’t she?

Statements are of two types. They are:

• With Auxiliary verb/Helping verb
• Without Auxiliary verb

Note 1 :-

• Answer for question tags lies in the Answer .i.e A N S
• A = Auxiliary verb
• N = Not
• S = Subject (pronoun)

Rules for using Question Tags:-

Rule 1:-

• Only the short form ” n’t ” is used in Question tag.
• A comma ( , ) must be added after the statement.

Rule 2:-

• The tag begins with a small letter and ends with question mark ( ? ). 

Rule 3:-

• An affirmative or positive statement has negative tag and a negative statement has positive tag.

Rule 4:-

• A suitable pronoun is used in tag as a subject according to number, gender, and the person.

Ex:– 1.Kamala is in house,isn’t she?                                                     2.The children are in bathroom, aren’t they?    

Rule 5:-

• In the case of ” am “ in the positive statement ” aren’t “ is used in tag.

Ex:- I am a teacher, aren’t I ? (But not ” amn’t I ” )

Rule 6:-

• But when ‘am‘ is used  in negative statement, the tag is “am I ” ?

Ex:– I am not a musician, am I ?

Rule 7:-

• The appropriate form of “do” is used according to the subject and tense of subject.

Rule 8:-

• With imperative expression an order or request, model verbs like will, would, can, could are used in tag.

Ex; 1.Help me, could you?    2.Close the door , will you?

Rule 9:

• Semi Negative words are Few, Little, Hardly, Scarcely, Rarely, Seldom, Never etc.,We have to take positive tag.

Examples:

1.  Few members attended meeting, did they?
2.  Little process was made, was it ?
3. We would scarcely understand what he said, would we?
4. They seldom meet him, do they?

Rule 10:  

•   A few, A little are treated as positives. We can take negative tag

Examples:-

1. A few members has attended it, hasn’t they ?  
2. A little progress has been made, hasn’t they ?

Rule 11;

• A Suggestion that start with “Let’s ” deserves “ shall we ? ” in the tag

EX: Let’s have a game of chess, shall we?

Rule 12:

• We can use “they” in question tag  after ‘someone’, ‘somebody’, ‘Everyone’, ‘Everybody’, ‘None’, ‘Nobody’.
• No one, Nobody and None of are negatives we take a positive tag.

Examples:

1. No one loved me, did they?
2. Everybody can’t be pleased, can they?
3. None of the students came,did they?

Rule 13:

• “Some of you ” takes “you” in the tag.
• “Some of us” takes “we” in the tag.
• “Some of them” takes  “they” in the tag.
• Above three are positives , so they take negative tag.

Ex: Some of you are learning english, aren’t you?

Rule 14:

• “It” is used in the question tag for “Something” and “Nothing”
• “Something” is positive and takes negative tag.
• “Nothing” is negative and takes positive tag.

 

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