Tag Questions

Tag Questions

1. We use tag questions at the end of statements to ask for confirmation. They mean something like:"Am I right?" or "Do you agree?" They are very common in English.

   • Positive Statement
     • Show is white
       • Positive Tag?
   • Negative Tag?
     • Isn't it?
       • Negative Statement
         • You don't like me,

2. Don't You?

3. Positive Statement Tah Questions

   • You will see that most of the time, the auxiliary verb from the positive statement is repeated in the tag and changed to negative

4. Negative Statement Tag Questions

   • Notice ehat the negative verb in the original statement is changed to positive in the tag.

5. Answering Tag Questions

   • How do we answer a tag question? Often, we just say Yes or No. Sometimes we mary repeat the tag and reverse it ( they don't live here, do they? Yes, they do).

6. Tag Question Special Cases

   • Negative Adverbs
     • The adverbs never, rarely, seldom,hardly, barely and scarcely have a negative sense.

7. Intonation of Tag Questions

   • We can change the meaning of a tag questions with the musical pitch of our voice, with rising intonation, it sounds like a real question. But if our intonation falls, it sounds more like a statement that doesn't require a real aswer.

8. Tag Question:Imperatives

   • Sometimes we use question tags with imperatives (invitations, orders), but the sentence remains an imperative and does not a diret aswer. We use won't for invitations. We use can, can't, will, would for orders