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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 🎾.

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.
      You hit the books for the exam, didn't you?
          ↳     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
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.

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