Question Tags
Have you ever heard about them❓ Do you know how to use one❓ If you don't know the answer for the last question, read the following ❹ conversations and try to guess. Good luck 🍀❗
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Jake: You 👊 the 📚 for the exam, didn't you❓
Sara: Yes, I did. If I pass it with flying colours, I'll give a 🎉🎶.
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Sue: I'm not late again, aren't I❓
Axl: No. It's just 6:30 am.
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Matt : Mathew lives in 🇿🇦, does he❓
Dave: Yes, that's right. He moved to 🇿🇦 two months ago.
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Chris: You used to play 🏓, did you❓
Rose: No, not actually 🏓, but I play 🎾.
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Jake: You 👊 the 📚 for the exam, didn't you❓
Sara: Yes, I did. If I pass it with flying colours, I'll give a 🎉🎶.
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Sue: I'm not late again, aren't I❓
Axl: No. It's just 6:30 am.
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Matt : Mathew lives in 🇿🇦, does he❓
Dave: Yes, that's right. He moved to 🇿🇦 two months ago.
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Chris: You used to play 🏓, did you❓
Rose: No, not actually 🏓, but I play 🎾.
Did you guess how to use question tags❓ Well; if you are 😕, don´t 😟. Let´s see their uses❗
Question Tags are questions added to a clause to invite a respond from the listener.
There are two types of them.
Type 1
This kind of question tags consists of an affirmative clause/sentence and a negative tag, or a negative sentence and an affirmative tag.
↳ Subject + past tense | didn't + subject ?
Affirmative sentence | negative tag
I'm not late again, aren't I?
↳ S + be + not | be + S ?
(-) sentence | (+) tag
*If there is no auxiliary or modal verb in the clause, we use auxiliary do, does, did in the tag.
**When we use I am in the sentence, then we use aren’t I in the tag.
Type 2
Affirmative sentence | negative tag
I'm not late again, aren't I?
↳ S + be + not | be + S ?
(-) sentence | (+) tag
*If there is no auxiliary or modal verb in the clause, we use auxiliary do, does, did in the tag.
**When we use I am in the sentence, then we use aren’t I in the tag.
It consists of an affirmative clause/sentence and an affirmative tag. We can use this kind of tags when we are unsure of the info, so the intonation is usually a rising tone.
Mathew lives in South Africa, does he?
↳ Subject + present tense | does + subject ?
Affirmative sentence | affirmative tag
You used to play table tennis, did you?
↳ Subject + past tense | did + subject ?
Affirmative sentence | affirmative tag
*When we use used to in the sentence, then we use did in the tag.
↳ Subject + present tense | does + subject ?
Affirmative sentence | affirmative tag
You used to play table tennis, did you?
↳ Subject + past tense | did + subject ?
Affirmative sentence | affirmative tag
*When we use used to in the sentence, then we use did in the tag.
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